Method and System to Directly Produce Electrical Power within the Lithium Blanket Region of a Magnetically Confined, Deuterium-Tritium (DT) Fueled, Thermonuclear Fusion Reactor
Abstract
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.
- Inventors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (US)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 782835
- Patent Number(s):
- PATENTS-US-A9158006
- Application Number:
- 9-158,006; TRN: AH200128%%8
- Assignee:
- DOEGC; EDB-01:070226
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- Resource Type:
- Patent Application
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 1998 Sep 22; Other Information: PBD: 22 Sep 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; D-T REACTORS; BREEDING BLANKETS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PUMPS; LIQUID METALS; LITHIUM; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; POWER GENERATION; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; REGENERATION
Citation Formats
Woolley, Robert 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., 1998.
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Woolley, Robert 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.
Woolley, Robert D. Tue .
"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. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/782835.
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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},
author = {Woolley, Robert D},
abstractNote = {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.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/782835},
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place = {United States},
year = {1998},
month = {9}
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