Charge exchange cooling in the tandem mirror plasma confinement apparatus

Patent · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:863225

Logan, B Grant ^[1]

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1. Danville, CA

Method and apparatus for cooling a plasma of warm charged species confined in the center mirror cell of the tandem mirror apparatus by injecting cold neutral species of the plasma into at least one mirroring region of the center mirror cell, the cooling due to the loss of warm charged species through charge exchange with the cold neutral species with resulting diffusion of the warm neutral species out of the plasma.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4127442
• OSTI ID: 863225
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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