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Experimental studies on closed cycle MHD power generation with “Fuji-1” blow-down facility at Tokyo Institute of Technology are presented. Recently, a new disk generator (Disk-F4) has been installed and a new seed injection system has been introduced from IVTAN (Institute of High Temperature in Russia). The design concept of the new generator channel is focused mainly on the reliability of high power generation. In the new seeding system, a melted seed material is pushed by a piston dozator, instead of gas-pressure-driven in the previous system. In the power generation experiments with the new components, the maximum power output of 502kW and the enthalpy extraction ratio of 16.7% have been obtained. These values at the present stage are lower than the maximum values previously achieved in the facility. However, the reproducible high power generation has been demonstrated with the new generator. The behavior of plasma and fluid under strong MHD interaction taking place in the generator channel is discussed.
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Okuno, Y. et al. (1999). Nonequilibrium Plasma MHD Power Generation with Fuji-1 Blow-Down Facility. In: Alemany, A., Marty, P., Thibault, J.P. (eds) Transfer Phenomena in Magnetohydrodynamic and Electroconducting Flows. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4764-4_29
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