Method and system to directly produce electrical power within the lithium blanket region of a magnetically confined, deuterium-tritium (DT) fueled, thermonuclear fusion reactor

Title: Method and system to directly produce electrical power within the lithium blanket region of a magnetically confined, deuterium-tritium (DT) fueled, thermonuclear fusion reactor

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A method is disclosed for integrating liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic power generation with fusion blanket technology to produce electrical power from a thermonuclear fusion reactor located within a confining magnetic field and within a toroidal structure. A hot liquid metal flows from a liquid metal blanket region into a pump duct of an electromagnetic pump which moves the liquid metal to a mixer where a gas of predetermined pressure is mixed with the pressurized liquid metal to form a Froth mixture. Electrical power is generated by flowing the Froth mixture between electrodes in a generator duct. When the Froth mixture exits the generator the gas is separated from the liquid metal and both are recycled.

Authors:: Woolley, R D

Publication Date:: 1999-11-23

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 20013874

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-76CH03073

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Other Information: PBD: 23 Nov 1999

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION; DESIGN; LIQUID METALS; BREEDING BLANKETS; THERMONUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; MHD GENERATORS; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; RECYCLING; D-T REACTORS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONVERSION

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                    Woolley, R D. Method and system to directly produce electrical power within the lithium blanket region of a magnetically confined, deuterium-tritium (DT) fueled, thermonuclear fusion reactor.  United States: N. p., 1999. 
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                    Woolley, R D. Method and system to directly produce electrical power within the lithium blanket region of a magnetically confined, deuterium-tritium (DT) fueled, thermonuclear fusion reactor.  United States.

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  abstractNote = {A method is disclosed for integrating liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic power generation with fusion blanket technology to produce electrical power from a thermonuclear fusion reactor located within a confining magnetic field and within a toroidal structure. A hot liquid metal flows from a liquid metal blanket region into a pump duct of an electromagnetic pump which moves the liquid metal to a mixer where a gas of predetermined pressure is mixed with the pressurized liquid metal to form a Froth mixture. Electrical power is generated by flowing the Froth mixture between electrodes in a generator duct. When the Froth mixture exits the generator the gas is separated from the liquid metal and both are recycled.},

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