Achievement of the highest performance of a CCMHD generator: An isentropic efficiency of 63% and an enthalpy extraction ratio of 31%

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 1886-1892

  Murakami, Tomoyuki ^a   Okuno, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamasaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENTHALPY; HELIUM; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC CONVERTERS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC POWER GENERATION; PLASMA SOURCES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CESIUM SEEDED HELIUM; CLOSED CYCLE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC POWER GENERATOR; ENTHALPY EXTRACTION RATIO; INLET SWIRL; ISENTROPIC EFFICIENCY; LESS DIVERGENT CHANNEL; MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY; PLASMA STRUCTURE; POWER DENSITY; STAGNATION TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 8144223699     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.835484     Document Type: Article

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