Energy Conversion and Management, Vol.43, No.3, 353-363, 2002
Industrial applications of magnetohydrodynamics at the University of Bologna
Many aspects of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) have been studied at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Bologna (MHD power generators, plasmadynamics in a Tokamak machine, superconducting magnetic separators, arc discharge in circuit breakers, meniscus shaping in casting machines). The recent activities developed with the aim to analyze different electric power applications of MHD Sciences, are reported in the paper.
Keywords:electromagnetic processing of materials;magnetohydrodynamics;steel making;electric discharge;circuit breaker;ionized gases