Direct Conversion of Energy
by William R. Corliss
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About this eBook
- Author
- Corliss, William R., 1926-2011
- Original Publication
- United States: U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1968.
- Credits
- Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TK: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering
- Subject
- Direct energy conversion
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 66033
- Release Date
- August 11, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Direct Conversion of Energy
- 2.CONTENTS — ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.DIRECT VERSUS DYNAMIC ENERGY CONVERSION — Dominance of Dynamic Conversion — A New Level of Sophistication: Direct Conversion — Why is Direct Conversion Desirable? — How is Energy Transformed? — ENERGY CONVERSION MATRIX — The Energy Conversion Matrix — Problem 1 — Problem 2
- 5.LAWS GOVERNING ENERGY CONVERSION — The Big Picture: Thermodynamics — You Can’t Win — You Can’t Even Break Even — Carnot Efficiency — Problem 3
- 6.THERMOELECTRICITY — After 140 Years: Seebeck Makes Good — Electrons and Holes — THERMOELECTRICITY — Practical Thermoelectric Power Generators
- 7.THERMIONIC CONVERSION — “Boiling” Electrons Out of Metals — Reducing the Space Charge — Result: A Plasma Thermocouple — Thermionic Power in Outer Space
- 8.MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC CONVERSION — Big Word, Simple Concept — The Fourth State of Matter — MHD Power Prospects
- 9.CHEMICAL BATTERIES — Electricity from the Chemical Bond — Chemical Reactions Used in Batteries and Fuel Cells — An Old Standby in Outer Space
- 10.THE FUEL CELL: A CONTINUOUSLY FUELED BATTERY — Potential Fuels — Scheme for Project Apollo — Problem 4
- 11.SOLAR CELLS — Photons as Energy Carriers — Harnessing the Sun’s Energy
- 12.NUCLEAR BATTERIES — Energy from Nuclear Particles — Double Conversion
- 13.ADVANCED CONCEPTS — Ferroelectric Conversion — Thermomagnetic Conversion — On the Frontier — Problem 5
- 14.SUGGESTED REFERENCES — Articles — Books — Motion Pictures
- 15.ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS
- 16.Footnotes
- 17.Transcriber’s Notes
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