During the past decade, advanced types of thermionic converters have been investigated and experimentally demonstrated. In addition to their substantially increased efficiency, these advanced (second-generation) converters also can condition the output power such as to remove many design constraints on the performance and complexity of the in-core thermionic reactor. A second-generation thermionic in-core reactor concept (TRICE) is described in which advanced-mode thermionic converters are integrated into a reactor concept (TRICE) is described in which advanced-mode thermionic converters are integrated into a reactor core, and their output inductively-coupled to an external high-voltage AC electromagnetic output circuit. Because the electrical insulators and intercell gaps that are required in the flashlight type of in-core reactor are absent from the TRICE core, the size and complexity of the TRICE reactor are substantially less than for a flashlight type reactor of the same output power. The increased performance potentially available via the TRICE concept is estimated for a variety of reactor output power levels.
Second-generation thermionic reactor (TRICE)
Thermionikreaktor der zweiten Generation
1986
6 Seiten, 11 Bilder, 11 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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