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US 11,195,627 B2Granted
Systems and methods for improved sustainment of a high performance FRC plasma at elevated energies utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energies
AssigneeTae Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAlexander Dunaevsky, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energy capabilities.
Claims19
A method for generating and maintaining a magnetic field with a field reversed configuration (FRC) comprising the steps of:
- forming an FRC plasma with a confinement chamber by forming an FRC magnetic field about a plasma in the confinement chamber, and
- injecting a plurality of neutral beams into the FRC plasma from a plurality of neutral beam injectors coupled to the confinement chamber, wherein one or more of the plurality of neutral beam injectors are adjustable between a first beam energy and a second beam energy, wherein the second beam energy differs from the first beam energy, wherein the second beam energy is higher than the first beam energy, and
- adjusting beam energy of the one or more of the plurality of adjustable neutral beam injectors between the first and second beam energies while injecting one or more of the plurality of neutral beams from the one or more of the plurality of adjustable neutral beam injectors into the FRC plasma.
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