Study of the Disc-Type Electromagnetic Pump with Permanent Magnets for Liquid Metal Applications

2023 IEEE 64th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON 2023): Proceedings 2023
Artūrs Brēķis, Andrejs Šiško, Imants Bucenieks, Kalvis Kravalis, Oskars Mikanovskis, Leonīds Buligins

The electromagnetic pumps on permanent magnets are a promising technology for liquid metal transportation using electromagnetic interaction between electrically conducting fluid and magnetic field. In this article, a numerical 3D magnetic field distribution is provided and compared with experimentally measured magnetic field mapping in the liquid metal channel. Using an electrodynamic approach, this data is further used to calculate the pump pressure-flowrate (p-Q) characteristics in the solid body approximation. A good agreement is obtained with experimentally measured p-Q characteristics during the pump prototype tests. The experiment was conducted on the newly designed liquid sodium (Na) loop at the Institute of Physics of the University of Latvia (IPUL).

Keywords
Electromagnetic induction pumps, liquid metals, magnetohydrodynamics, MHD, permanent magnets
DOI
10.1109/RTUCON60080.2023.10413120
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10413120

Brēķis, A., Šiško, A., Bucenieks, I., Kravalis, K., Mikanovskis, O., Buligins, L. Study of the Disc-Type Electromagnetic Pump with Permanent Magnets for Liquid Metal Applications. In: 2023 IEEE 64th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON 2023): Proceedings, Latvia, Riga, 9-11 October, 2023. Piscataway: IEEE, 2023, pp.1-5. ISBN 979-8-3503-1774-9. e-ISBN 979-8-3503-1773-2. Available from: doi:10.1109/RTUCON60080.2023.10413120

Publication language
English (en)