Senior Design Class (22.033) uses fusion energy for hydrogen fuel productionAbstract.
Seniors design economically attractive steady-state large-scale fusion plants for hydrogen fuel production. Fusion energy holds the possibility of a nearly limitless energy supply for the future. Most fusion research and design studies have looked at fusion to produce electricity for the grid; however this constraint holds the total size of the plant down to 1 GigaWatt electrical. This is a challenge because the standard fusion approach using strong magnetic fields most easily occurs in hot, and therefore large, devices.
The NSE senior design class, taught by Assoc. Prof. Dennis Whyte, examined the possibility of a fusion power plant used to make hydrogen fuel instead of electricity, freeing the fusion plant from small size limitations. Their study showed that not only did the H fuel become more competitive economically at larger size (8-30 GigaWatts) but that the core fusion design was inherently far from operational limits, yet steady-state with readily controlled heat exhaust; thus solving some of the most vexing problems for the standard tokamak configuration fusion design.
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