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Staged Magnetic Compression
- f FRC Targets
Staged Magnetic Compression of FRC Targets to Fusion Conditions - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Staged Magnetic Compression of FRC Targets to Fusion Conditions - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Staged Magnetic Compression of FRC Targets to Fusion Conditions John Slough, PI Helion Energy: David Kirtley, CEO Project Lead 20 Tesla ARPA-E Experiment 40 Tesla Reactor Existing Facilities and Expertise Theory and Code Development 12
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- 1. Formation – Two FRC plasmoids are
dynamically formed by sequential field reversal
- 2. Acceleration – FRC plasmoids are
accelerated to high velocities (>300 km/s)
- 3. Merging –Two supersonic plasmoids collide
and merge converting kinetic into ion thermal energy
- 4. Compression – FRC is adiabatically
compressed to fusion temperatures
- 5. Energy Generation – Spent plasma, fusion
ions, and neutrons are converted to energy
Artist’s animation of the FE 2D Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the FE
The Fusion Engine
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Total Cost of Plant ($B)
Power Density (MW/m3)
Low Energy Devices: Steady/Magnetic Wall heating limit for continuous operation
Material limit pulsed operation
High Energy Devices Purely Inertial
Reactor costs Fusion Driver (heating) costs
0.1 10 1000 105 10 1 0.1 0.01
Total Cost
Optimal Low High
Fission
Energy Density
50 Tesla Limit
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Developed to be economically competitive
- 50 MW - rapid development, modular power
markets
- Direct fusion particle energy to electricity- output
efficiency
- Magnetic/Inductive compression – input efficiency,
massless, and <$0.03/MJ
Key Approach
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Technology Demonstrators
IPA IPA-C Grande
LSX, PhD – Full Scale & Stability Millisecond lifetime IPA – Merging Merged FRC confinement IPA-C – Heating and compression 1 keV D ions Grande – High field operation 5+ keV D ions ARPA-E VENTI 12 T esla Compression FEP 20 T esla Compression FEP-G 40 T esla Reactor
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Too Big Too Hard Just Right
Fundamentally large scale Fundamentally inefficient