Analysis of the Reactive Components of the Plasma Gap Impedance in Thermionic Energy Converter

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10.2991/itsmssm-16.2016.88How to use a DOI?

Keywords

thermionic converter, non-stationary processes, cesium plasma, the impedance of the plasma gap, hodograph, arc mode, the diffusion mode

Abstract

The contribution of the of voltage drop components to the impedance of the plasma gap was analyzed based on the non-stationary models of processes in low temperature cesium plasma. Depending on the phase of the plasma parameters and the properties of the thermionic energy converter the voltage drop components may exhibit both inductive and capacitive properties. Hodographs of the impedance of the plasma arc gap in the converter were calculated and analyzed both for arc and diffusion modes. The effect of temperature resonance on the impedance hodograph of the plasma gap in the arc mode was analyzed. Noted is a significant contribution of the volume ionization thermionic energy converter to the inductive properties of the plasma gap.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Viacheslav Zimin
AU  - Ekaterina Isakova
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - Analysis of the Reactive Components of the Plasma Gap Impedance in Thermionic Energy Converter
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Information Technologies in Science, Management, Social Sphere and Medicine
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 445
EP  - 449
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itsmssm-16.2016.88
DO  - 10.2991/itsmssm-16.2016.88
ID  - Zimin2016/05
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