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
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OSTI ID:872694
- Belle Mead, NJ
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 Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- Assignee:
- U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5991351
- OSTI ID:
- 872694
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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