Inquiry for the Technical Feasibility Assessment of a New Design of MHD Generator

Abstract

In this paper a preliminary study for the functioning of a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator is presented. Unlike the MHD generators so far studied, the proposed device does not need an external magnetic field to work, but it performs the energy conversion by means of the induction principle. This is possible thanks to a pulsed ionization of the fluid current, carried out with an electrode dipped in the fluid current, followed by a charge separation with a stationary electric field. In this work, the basic idea of the generator is described and the preliminary results of fluid dynamics and magnetic phenomena analysis are given