Liquid Components as Enabling Technologies for Advanced, High-Temperature Power Cycles

摘要

1. New approaches to MHD power generation for topping cycles advance beyond legacy MHD programrn2. Proposed Brayton-indirect power cycle leverages multiple advances over the last 30 yearsrn2.1 High-temperature gas turbinesrn2.2 High-temperature, high-field superconductorsrn2.3 Self-healing, liquid plasma-facing componentsrn3. Liquid electrodes should enable higher power densities and higher survivability as well as contamination controlrn4. Air-Brayton cycle efficiency not as sensitive to the loss of the high turbine inlet temperature.