The Enabling Technology Program Plan is organized around five elements: plasma technologies, fusion (chamber) technologies, materials sciences, advanced design, and IFE chamber and target technologies.
Vapor chamber technologies offer an attractive approach for passive heat spreading in mobile electronic devices, in which meeting the demand for increased functionality and performance is hampered by a reliance on conventional conductive heat spreaders.
The company also sells sofa beds that incorporate the air chamber technology.
Additionally, a short video explaining Celsia's NanoSpreader vapor chamber technology will be shown as part of the conference's opening presentation.
Instead, they feature a proprietary air chamber technology that allows for different degrees of firmness, which is adjusted with a remote control.
This study, called APEX, is exploring novel concepts for fusion chamber technology that can substantially improve the attractiveness of fusion energy systems.
These hydraulic protection systems have issues regarding their formation and flow characteristics that need to be further understood as part of the ongoing chamber technology program for IFE.
The chamber technology goals in APEX include: (1) high power density capability with neutron wall load >10 MW/m2 and surface heat flux >2 MW/m2, (2) high power conversion efficiency (>40%), (3) high availability, and (4) simple technological and material constraints.
The emphasis of the study is on fundamental understanding and advancing the underlying engineering sciences, integration of the physics and engineering requirements, and enhancing innovation for the chamber technology components surrounding the plasma.
Our approach has been to utilize an already established design for a future fusion reactor, the ARIES-RS, for the basic chamber geometry and magnetic configuration, and to replace the chamber technology in this design with liquid wall technology for a first wall and divertor and a blanket with adequate tritium breeding.
In this article, we explore some of the safety issues associated with two advanced ferritic steel (AFS) molten salt blanket designs from the Advanced Power Extraction (APEX) design study [M.A. Abdou, The APEX Team, On the exploration of innovative concepts for fusion chamber technology, Fus. Eng. Des. 54 (2000) 181].
