Rossi’s new reactor core design
http://pesn.com/2012/01/14/9602012_Momentous_Breakthroughs_Announced_During_Anniversary_E-Cat_Interview/ Momentous Breakthroughs Announced During Anniversary E-Cat Interview - January 15, 2012 It was also clarified that each individual home E-Cat system will utilize one reactor core. This is different than what was stated only a couple months ago, which indicates just how rapidly progress is being made. If the reactor core is the size of a single pack of cigarettes (about 85 cubic centimeters) and can produce 10 kilowatts of power, this makes the power density 117 watts per cubic centimeter -- a super high value! I believe that many of the design ideas for this reactor core were given to Rossi by the US government. This new design is a total departure from the thermionic designs he originally developed. The amount of design latitude necessary in the design of the core of Rossi’s new style reactor core to do this minimization is very limited. Rossi had to have totally changed his technology to have accomplished this downsized core and the inherent stabilization of performance that has been reported in his new systems. by the necessity of its small size, this miniature design may be a solid state design with virtually no or at most minimal flows of gases and now air born nano-powder. The hydrogen for the envelope is provided through the decomposition of a metal hydride such as titanium or magnesium so the volume of the envelope is very small. The basic goal of the design is to maximize the electrostatic field at the tips of core’s SWNTs near the boundary with the nickel micro-powder. This reactor core being the size of a computer processor would be built as follows: This reactor core has a surface area of a few square centimeters. Its dimensions and topology are as follows: A circular shaped reactor core has a diameter of 10 centimeters. The core is 3 cm thick, formed in two parts composed of a base sheet and a top sheet. The sheets are composed of a carbon rich metal alloy and perfectly flat metal such as tungsten carbide with a thickness of 1 mm. The bottom sheet is covered with nickel micro-powder between 1 and 4 microns in diameter. The top sheet is a substrate for thickly packed vertically aligned SWNTs each having a lengths of about a mm. The top and base sheets are separated such that the tips of the SWNTs just touch the micro powder using spacers that promote hydrogen flow in and among the SWNTs. The top sheet is connected to the negative potential of a 50kv pulsed DC power source. The positive potential is grounded. The core may operate with a minimum pulse length of 1 microsecond and a duty cycle of between 0.1% and 100%. For example, a pulse length of 1 microsecond and an off time of 10 milliseconds results in a duty cycle of 1%. Pulse mode may, for example, provide lower average current density at the tips of the SWNTs and therefore increase the heat output of the core. In operation, an electric field of between 20 and 500 volts/micron is required, The core is enclosed in a circular high pressure hydrogen envelope about the thickness of a pack of cigarettes (about 85 cubic centimeters). This enclosure is composed of stainless steel or tungsten. When the core is in operation, it glows red like the elements of an electric toaster to produce 10 kW of thermal power. Cheers: Axil
