• DocumentCode
    304128
  • Title

    Space power plants and power-consuming industrial systems

  • Author

    Latyshev, L. ; Semashko, N.

  • Author_Institution
    Moscow Aviation Inst., Russia
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    11-16 Aug 1996
  • Firstpage
    52
  • Abstract
    An opportunity to create space power production on the basis of solar, nuclear and fusion energies is analyzed. Industrial (power and science-consuming) objects located on a whole number of space apparatus will form a single complex with its own basic power plant. Power transmission within the complex will be realized with high power density fluxes of microwave radiation over short distances with their receivers at the objects. The necessary correction of the apparatus positions in the complex will be performed with ion and plasma thrusters. The materials present on the Moon, asteroids and on other planets can serve as raw materials for industrial objects. Such an approach will help to improve the ecological state on Earth, to eliminate the necessity in the fast energy consumption growth and to reduce the hazards of global thermal crisis
  • Keywords
    nuclear power; nuclear power stations; photovoltaic power systems; solar cell arrays; solar cells; solar power stations; space power generation; space vehicle power plants; technological forecasting; Moon; asteroids; beamed power transmission; energy consumption; industrial systems; ion thrusters; plasma thrusters; space power plants; space power production; Aerospace industry; Moon; Planets; Plasma applications; Plasma density; Plasma materials processing; Power generation; Power transmission; Production; Raw materials;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1996. IECEC 96., Proceedings of the 31st Intersociety
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • ISSN
    1089-3547
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3547-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IECEC.1996.552844
  • Filename
    552844