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Title: Development of a wet vapor homogeneous liquid metal MHD power system. Final report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10150340· OSTI ID:10150340

A feasibility study for the approval of liquid metal seeds recovery from a liquid metal vapor-inert gas mixture was conducted and presented in this report. The research activity included background studies on processes relating to mixing stream condenser performance, parametric studies and its experimental validation. The condensation process under study includes mass transfer phenomena combined with heat transfer and phase change. Numerical methods were used in order to solve the dynamic equations and to carry out the parametric study as well as the experimental data reduction. The MSC performance is highly effected by droplet diameter, thus the possibility of atomizing liquid metals were experimentally investigated. The results are generalized and finally used for a set of recommendations by which the recovery of seeds is expected to be feasible.

Research Organization:
Solmecs Ltd., Tel Aviv (Israel)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC22-88PC88653
OSTI ID:
10150340
Report Number(s):
DOE/PC/88653-T5; ON: DE94011555; BR: 400403000/400403608
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Sep 1991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English