公开(公告)号：EP2981969B1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-06

申请号：EP14789905.8

申请日：2014-04-03

申请人： Lockheed Martin Corporation

发明人： MCGUIRE, Thomas, John

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  H05H1/14

CPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/052 ,  H05H1/14 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/126

摘要： A fusion reactor includes an enclosure having a first end, a second end, and a midpoint substantially equidistant between the first and second ends of the enclosure. The fusion reactor includes two internal magnetic coils suspended within the enclosure and positioned on opposite sides of the midpoint of the enclosure, one or more encapsulating magnetic coils positioned on each side of the midpoint of the enclosure, two mirror magnetic coils positioned on opposite sides of the midpoint of the enclosure, and one or more cooling lines within each of the internal magnetic coils. The cooling lines carry a coolant and are operable to remove heat from the internal magnetic coils. The one or more encapsulating magnetic coils and the two mirror magnetic coils are coaxial with the internal magnetic coils. The magnetic coils are operable, when supplied with electric currents, to form magnetic fields for confining plasma within the enclosure.

公开(公告)号：EP3223284A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-27

申请号：EP17169187.6

申请日：2012-11-14

申请人： THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

发明人： TUSZEWSKI, Michel ,  BINDERBAUER, Michl ,  BARNES, Dan ,  GARATE, Eusebio ,  GUO, Houyang ,  PUTVINSKI, Sergei ,  SMIRNOV, Artem

IPC分类号： G21B1/05

CPC分类号： G21B1/052 ,  G21B1/15 ,  Y02E30/122

摘要： The present disclosure provides a method that facilitates the formation and maintenance of new High Performance Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs). The method comprises generating a magnetic field with a magnetic system coupled to a confinement chamber, diametrically opposed FRC formation sections, and divertors; gettering the confinement chamber and the divertors with a layer of gettering material; generating an FRC in each of the formation sections; and translating each FRC toward a midplane of the confinement chamber where the FRCs merge into a merged FRC. The method further comprises injecting neutral atom beams into the merged FRC from neutral atom beam injectors; injecting plasma into the merged FRC from axial plasma guns; and electrically biasing open flux surfaces of the merged FRC with one or more biasing electrodes.

摘要翻译： 本公开提供了便于新的高性能场反向配置（FRC）的形成和维护的方法。 该方法包括利用耦合到约束腔室的磁性系统产生磁场，径向相对的FRC形成部分和偏滤器; 用一层吸气材料去除约束室和偏滤器; 在每个形成部分中产生FRC; 并将每个FRC转换到FRC合并成FRC的密闭室的中平面。 该方法还包括从中性原子束注入器将中性原子束注入到合并的FRC中; 用轴向等离子体枪将等离子体注入合并的FRC中; 并用一个或多个偏置电极对合并的FRC的开放磁通表面进行电偏置。

公开(公告)号：EP2981967A1

公开(公告)日：2016-02-10

申请号：EP14729118.1

申请日：2014-04-03

申请人： Lockheed Martin Corporation

发明人： MCGUIRE, Thomas, John

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  H05H1/14

CPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/052 ,  H05H1/14 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/126

摘要： A fusion reactor includes an enclosure having a first end, a second end, and a midpoint substantially equidistant between the first and second ends of the enclosure. The fusion reactor includes two internal magnetic coils suspended within the enclosure and positioned on opposite sides of the midpoint of the enclosure, one or more encapsulating magnetic coils positioned on each side of the midpoint of the enclosure, two mirror magnetic coils positioned on opposite sides of the midpoint of the enclosure, and one or more cooling lines within each of the internal magnetic coils. The cooling lines carry a coolant and are operable to remove heat from the internal magnetic coils. The one or more encapsulating magnetic coils and the two mirror magnetic coils are coaxial with the internal magnetic coils. The magnetic coils are operable, when supplied with electric currents, to form magnetic fields for confining plasma within the enclosure.

摘要翻译： 在一个实施例中，聚变反应堆包括悬挂在外壳内的两个内部磁性线圈，与两个内部磁性线圈同轴并且靠近外壳中点的中心磁性线圈，与内部磁性线圈同轴的多个封装磁性线圈 和两个与内部磁性线圈同轴的镜面磁性线圈。 聚变反应器被配置成改变提供给磁性线圈的电流以加热被限制在磁壁内的等离子体。

公开(公告)号：EP2187713B9

公开(公告)日：2015-11-04

申请号：EP10155306.3

申请日：2002-02-01

申请人： The Regents of the University of California

发明人： Rostoker, Norman ,  Binderbauer, Michl ,  Qerushi, Artan ,  Tahsiri, Hooshang ,  Garate, Eusebio ,  Bystritskii, Vitaly

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  H05H1/14 ,  H05H1/16 ,  G21D7/00

CPC分类号： G21B1/052 ,  G21B1/05 ,  G21D7/00 ,  H05H1/03 ,  H05H1/10 ,  H05H1/12 ,  H05H1/14 ,  H05H1/16 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/126

公开(公告)号：EP1371270B1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-15

申请号：EP02741645.2

申请日：2002-03-18

申请人： The Regents of the University of California ,  University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.

发明人： ROSTOKER, Norman ,  MONKHORST, Hendrik J.

IPC分类号： H05H1/12 ,  G21B1/00 ,  G21D7/02

CPC分类号： H05H1/12 ,  G21B1/00 ,  G21B1/052 ,  G21B1/11 ,  G21D7/00 ,  H05H1/14 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/126

摘要： A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confined in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by the nuclear force, thus forming fusion products that emerge in the form of an annular beam. Energy is removed from the fusion product ions as they spiral past electrodes of an inverse cyclotron converter. Advantageously, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement and energy conversion system include advanced (aneutronic) fuels.

公开(公告)号：EP0873561A4

公开(公告)日：2001-05-16

申请号：EP96931414

申请日：1996-08-22

申请人： UNIV CALIFORNIA ,  UNIV FLORIDA

发明人： ROSTOKER NORMAN ,  MONKHORST HENDRIK J

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  H05H1/12 ,  G21B1/00 ,  G21B1/02

CPC分类号： G21B1/052 ,  Y02E30/122

摘要： Ionized boron and protons are used as nuclear reactants in a field-reversed configuration system, and fused to yield three alpha particles with kinetic energy convertible to useful energy. The boron and proton beams are injected from injectors (32 and 34) respectively, into the reaction chamber (12) in such a manner as to have a relative energy of 0.65 MeV, corresponding to a resonance maximum in the reaction cross section. The boron beam has energy of 0.412 MeV and the proton beam has energy of 1 MeV. Furthermore, in the device of the invention, the beams tend to circulate in the same direction, thereby avoiding rapid change in the mean velocities of the beams due to ion-ion scattering. The ions remain confined for relatively long periods, enhancing fusion collisions. Both ion beams should not have temperatures greater than 100 keV, because this will detract from the resonance in cross section.

公开(公告)号：EP3357067A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-08

申请号：EP16865181.8

申请日：2016-11-13

申请人： TAE Technologies, Inc.

发明人： GONZALEZ, Jesus Antonio Romero

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/00 ,  G21B1/11 ,  G21D7/00 ,  H05H1/12 ,  H05H1/14 ,  H05H1/16

CPC分类号： H05H1/12 ,  G21B1/052 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/126

摘要： Systems and methods to that facilitate stability of an FRC plasma in both radial and axial directions and axial position control of an FRC plasma along the symmetry axis of an FRC plasma chamber. The systems and methods exploit an axially unstable equilibria of the FRC to enforce radial stability, while stabilizing or controlling the axial instability. The systems and methods provide feedback control of the FRC plasma axial position independent of the stability properties of the plasma equilibrium by acting on the voltages applied to a set of external coils concentric with the plasma and using a non-linear control technique.

公开(公告)号：EP3031051B1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-13

申请号：EP14781012.1

申请日：2014-09-24

申请人： TAE Technologies, Inc.

发明人： TUSZEWSKI, Michel ,  BINDERBAUER, Michl ,  PUTVINSKI, Sergei ,  SMIRNOV, Artem

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/15

CPC分类号： G21B1/052 ,  G21B1/15 ,  H05H1/10 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/16

摘要： A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber. In operation, FRC plasma parameters including plasma thermal energy, total particle numbers, radius and trapped magnetic flux, are sustainable at or about a constant value without decay during neutral beam injection.

公开(公告)号：EP3031051A1

公开(公告)日：2016-06-15

申请号：EP14781012.1

申请日：2014-09-24

申请人： Tri Alpha Energy Inc.

发明人： TUSZEWSKI, Michel ,  BINDERBAUER, Michl ,  BARNES, Dan ,  GARATE, Eusebio ,  GUO, Houyang ,  PUTVINSKI, Sergei ,  SMIRNOV, Artem

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/15

CPC分类号： G21B1/052 ,  G21B1/15 ,  H05H1/10 ,  Y02E30/122 ,  Y02E30/16

摘要： A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber. In operation, FRC plasma parameters including plasma thermal energy, total particle numbers, radius and trapped magnetic flux, are sustainable at or about a constant value without decay during neutral beam injection.

摘要翻译： 高性能场反向配置（FRC）系统包括中心限制容器，耦合到容器的两个直径相对的反向场-θ夹紧形成部分和耦合到形成部分的两个偏滤器室。 磁性系统包括沿着FRC系统部件轴向定位的准直流线圈，在限制室和形成部分之间的准直流镜面线圈，以及形成部分和偏滤器之间的镜塞。 形成部分包括使得FRC能够静态和动态地形成和加速的模块化脉冲动力形成系统。 FRC系统还包括中性原子射束注射器，丸粒注射器，吸气系统，轴向等离子体枪和通量表面偏置电极。 梁喷射器优选地朝向腔室的中平面成角度。 在操作中，FRC等离子体参数包括等离子体热能，总粒子数，半径和被捕获的磁通量，在中性光束注入期间可以在恒定值或大约恒定值下保持不衰减。

公开(公告)号：EP2981972A2

公开(公告)日：2016-02-10

申请号：EP14790383.5

申请日：2014-04-03

申请人： Lockheed Martin Corporation

发明人： McGUIRE, Thomas, John

IPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  H05H1/14

CPC分类号： G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/052 ,  G21B1/057 ,  G21Y2002/303 ,  G21Y2004/30 ,  H05H1/14 ,  Y02E30/122

摘要： A fusion reactor includes an enclosure having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a midpoint substantially equidistant between the first and second ends of the enclosure. The fusion reactor includes two internal magnetic coils suspended within the enclosure and positioned on opposite sides of the midpoint of the enclosure, one or more encapsulating magnetic coils positioned on each side of the midpoint of the enclosure, two mirror magnetic coils positioned on opposite sides of the midpoint of the enclosure, and one or more support stalks for supporting the two internal magnetic coils suspended within the enclosure. The one or more encapsulating magnetic coils and the two mirror magnetic coils are coaxial with the internal magnetic coils. The magnetic coils are operable, when supplied with electric currents, to form magnetic fields for confining plasma within the enclosure.

摘要翻译： 聚变反应器包括具有第一端，与第一端相对的第二端和在外壳的第一和第二端之间基本等距的中点的外壳。 聚变反应堆包括两个内部磁性线圈，其悬挂在外壳内并且位于外壳的中点的相对侧上，一个或多个封装的磁性线圈位于外壳的中点的每一侧，两个镜面磁性线圈位于 外壳的中点，以及用于支撑悬挂在外壳内的两个内部磁性线圈的一个或多个支撑柄。 一个或多个封装磁性线圈和两个镜面磁性线圈与内部磁性线圈同轴。 当提供电流时，磁性线圈可操作以形成用于将等离子体限制在外壳内的磁场。