RESEARCH ON NEW CONCEPTS IN ENERGY CONVERSION. First Quarterly Technical Progress Report, September 1, 1963-November 30, 1963

Technical Report · Sat Oct 31 04:00:00 EST 1964

OSTI ID:4013005

Jackson, W D; Brown, G A; Kerrebrock, J L; Carabateas, E N

The development, theory, design, fabrication, and testing of two forms of closed-cycle magnetohydrodynamic powergeneration systems and cesium thermionic converters are investigated. Topics covered include: magnetohydrodynamic power generation with liquid metals, liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic generators, electrical conductivity of two-phase liquid-metal flow, magnetohydrodynamic channel flow, systems with alknli-metal vapor generators, studies of transport phenomena in cesium thermionic converters, electron and ion emission from; different crystallographic orientations in vacuum and cesium, measurements of thermal conductivity in cesium gas, studies of surfaces, electron and ion emission from a tungsten monocrystal, and penetration of an ion through an ionic dipole layer at an electrode surface. (N.W.R.)

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. Research Lab. of Electronics
• NSA Number: NSA-18-020834
• OSTI ID: 4013005
• Report Number(s): NP-13808
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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