Method and System to Directly Produce Electrical Power within the Lithium Blanket Region of a Magnetically Confined, Deuterium-Tritium (DT) Fueled, Thermonuclear Fusion Reactor
Patent Application
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OSTI ID:782835
A method 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.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- Assignee:
- DOEGC; EDB-01:070226
- Patent Number(s):
- PATENTS-US-A9158006
- Application Number:
- 9-158,006; TRN: AH200128%%8
- OSTI ID:
- 782835
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 1998 Sep 22; Other Information: PBD: 22 Sep 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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