Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Creator:: Dickinson, Jeffrey Wade
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: converter. In addition, a brief outline of the historical development of thermionic emission and converters

Creator:: Al-Kheliewi, Abdullah S.
Abstract:: A transient code (TFETC) for calculating the temperature distribution throughout the radial and axial positions of a thermionic fuel element (TFE) has been successfully developed. It accommodates the variations of temperatures, thermal power, electrical power, voltage, and current density throughout the TFE as a function of time as well as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 1.2 Thermionic Converter 5 1.2.1 Historical Introduction 5 1.2.2 Basic Physical Principles 7

Creator:: Gedeon, Stephen R.
Abstract:: Preliminary nuclear design studies have been completed on ten configurations of nuclear reactors for low power (1-30 kWe) space applications utilizing thermionic energy conversion. Additional design studies have been conducted on the TRICE multimegawatt in-core thermionic reactor configuration. In each of the cases, a reactor configuration has been determined which...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: heat energy into electrical energy. In its simplest form, a thermionic converter consists of one

Creator:: Lee, Hsing Hui
Abstract:: Incore thermionic space reactor design concepts which operate at a nominal power output range of 20 to 50 kWe are described. Details of the neutronic, thermionic, thermal hydraulics and shielding performance are presented. Due to the strong absorption of thermal neutrons by natural tungsten, and the large amount of that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thermionic converter. Basically it consists of a metal surface connected to the heat source and a secondary

Creator:: Lewis, Bryan R.
Abstract:: An overall systems design code was developed to model an advanced in-core thermionic energy conversion based nuclear reactor system for space applications at power levels of 10 to 50 kWe. The purpose of this work was to provide the overall shell for the systems code and to also provide the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to the thermionic converter, delivering electrical power to the load. Thermodynamically, thermionic

ScholarsArchive@OSU