Characterization of open-cycle coal-fired MHD generators. 16th quarterly technical progress report, December 16, 1980-March 31, 1981

Technical Report · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5270447· OSTI ID:5270447

Wormhoudt, J.; Yousefian, V.; Weinberg, M.; Kolb, C.; Martinez-Sanchez, M.; Cheng, W.; Dvore, D.; Freedman, A.; Stanton, A.; Stewart, G.

The successful design of full-scale, open-cycle, coal-fired MHD generators for baseload electrical production requires a detailed understanding of the plasma chemical and plasma dynamic characteristics of anticipated combustor and channel fluids. Progress in efforts to model the efficiency of an open-cycle, coal-fired MHD channel based on the characterization of the channel flow as well as laboratory experiments to validate the modeling effort is reported. In addition, studies related to understanding arcing and corrosion phenomena in the vicinity of an anode are reported.

• Research Organization: Aerodyne Research, Inc., Bedford, MA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-76ET10775
• OSTI ID: 5270447
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/10775-T2; ON: DE81027891
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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