A Liquid Metal Alternate MHD Disk Generator
Sustainability 2023
Antoine Alemany, Artūrs Brēķis, Augusto Montisci

In this paper, an electrical generator is presented for the exploitation of alternating energy. Some renewable sources are directly available in such forms, such as the wave power obtainable from the sea, but most of them can be converted to alternative forms; therefore, the proposed generator can be applied to different kinds of renewable sources. In particular, the proposed system is thought to be coupled with a thermoacoustic engine, which converts heat into mechanical vibration without using solid moving parts. This opens the proposed system to the use of most thermal sources, such as solar radiation, waste recovery, geothermic, car exhaust, and others. The object of of this present work concerns the transformation of alternating mechanical energy into electricity by using a specific type of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disk generator. The functioning of this generator is based on the interaction between a DC magnetic field embedded in a disk structure and a conducting fluid held in an inner channel. A simplified model of the generator is presented here, and a sensitivity analysis is performed. It is shown that, under specific operating conditions, the efficiency of the system can reach 70% with a level of power of hundreds of watts.


Keywords
liquid metals | magnetohydrodynamic disk generator | permanent magnets | vibration power
DOI
10.3390/su151612619
Hyperlink
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/16/12619

Alemany, A., Brēķis, A., Montisci, A. A Liquid Metal Alternate MHD Disk Generator. Sustainability, 2023, Vol. 15, No. 16, Article number 12619. e-ISSN 2071-1050. Available from: doi:10.3390/su151612619

Publication language
English (en)
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