Efficiency and Physical Limitations of Adiabatic Direct Energy Conversion in Axisymmetric Fields
Plasma Physics
2024-10-22 v1
Abstract
We describe and analyze a new class of direct energy conversion schemes based on the adiabatic magnetic drift of charged particles in axisymmetric magnetic fields. The efficiency of conversion as well as the geometrical and dynamical limitations of the recoverable power are calculated. The geometries of these axisymmetric field configurations are suited for direct energy conversion in radiating advanced aneutronic reactors and in advanced divertors of deuterium-tritium tokamak reactors. The E cross B configurations considered here do not suffer from the classical drawbacks and limitations of thermionic and magnetohydrodynamic high temperature direct energy conversion devices.
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@article{arxiv.2410.15485,
title = {Efficiency and Physical Limitations of Adiabatic Direct Energy Conversion in Axisymmetric Fields},
author = {J. -M. Rax and E. J. Kolmes and N. J. Fisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15485},
year = {2024}
}
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15 pages, 14 figures