Magneto-hydrodynamic power

Of course, Case 3 together with Cases 1 and 2, is an important process in W-value measurements of gaseous materials (16, 31). However, these measurements are indirect, and the data do not correspond directly to each primary process. At present the experimental data are too scant to explain in detail each process which results in electron and ion production. Case 3 may also be important in magneto-hydrodynamic power generation experiments (61). 

Nuclear and magneto-hydrodynamic electric power generation systems have been produced on a scale which could lead to industrial production, but to-date technical problems, mainly connected with corrosion of the containing materials, has hampered full-scale development. In the case of nuclear power, the proposed fast reactor, which uses fast neutron fission in a small nuclear fuel element, by comparison with fuel rods in thermal neutron reactors, requires a more rapid heat removal than is possible by water cooling, and a liquid sodium-potassium alloy has been used in the development of a near-industrial generator. The fuel container is a vanadium sheath with a niobium outer cladding, since this has a low fast neutron capture cross-section and a low rate of corrosion by the liquid metal coolant. The liquid metal coolant is transported from the fuel to the turbine generating the electric power in stainless steel... 

The microphysics in the field generation and particle acceleration described here is clearly beyond the reach of the magneto hydrodynamic approximation. A parameter study utilizing a PIC code working from first principles is necessary to fully understand the interdependence between the relative bulk Lorentz factors of the colliding plasma shells, the power law index of the non-thermal electron population, eb and in a broader sense the detailed evolution and structure in collisionless shocks. 

Magneto-Hydrodynamics in Flow Control and Power Extraction... 

I 1.5. MAGNETO-HYDRODYNAMIC GENERATORS AND OTHER PLASMA SYSTEMS OF POWER ELECTRONICS... 

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