Fusion Internal Combustion Engine

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Fusion Internal Combustion Engine*. DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING A COMPACT TOROIDAL PLASMA FOR USE. AS A NEUTRON SOURCE AND FUSION ...
Fusion Internal Combustion Engine* DEVICE FOR COMPRESSING A COMPACT TOROIDAL PLASMA FOR USE AS A NEUTRON SOURCE AND FUSION REACTOR**

Simon Woodruff, N. Mattor, J. K. Baerny WOODRUFF SCIENTIFIC Inc, 4501 Shilshole Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107

Presentation at the Innovative Confinement Concept Workshop February 2010 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ

Work supported by Department of Energy under subcontract numbers DE-FG02-06ER84449 and DEFG02-07ER84924. *US PATENT PENDING U.S. Serial No. 61 / 287,170 **US PATENT PENDING U.S. Serial No. 12/706,963.

Outline Compression offers a route to high temperatures in a compact plasma. Based on recent results, and adiabatic compression, we propose a new type of combustion engine. The next steps in the development of the concept entails CE and POP-level devices.

Adiabatic compression

Consider the usual scaling relations: C=a0/af

B = B0 C2

T = T0 C2

n = n0C3

Then take an example, C=3 B=9B0, T=9T0, n=27n0, p=243p0

p = p0 C5

Many have thought about adiabatic compression, amongst them…

ATC: Furth/Bol

S-1: Yamada

Constant RM: Bellan

Our point design takes a 3m diameter spheromak and compresses to 1m Taking as axiomatic: •

Density constrained by Greenwald limit



Coils support equilibrium (limit