calculation · Electrical Particle Generator · computed
EPG design session v3: best candidate (η=68.9%, 66.8W)
Sweep — base grid
Score 0.931 — η 68.9%, 66.78 W net
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Pathway — bore 80.0mm, loop 1000mm, spiral pitch 80mm
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Coil array — 4 × 1800 turns AWG18, 10mm long (1900m wire, 39.77Ω)
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Medium — slurry, φ=25.0%, remanence 65% → M 61.8 kA/m, B 583 G
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Flow — 1.00 m/s (3.3 fps), Re 1829 laminar, ΔP 424 Pa
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Modulation — depth 0.974 — coil/pitch 0.13
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Output — 114.22 V into 100.0Ω at 12.5 Hz (matched load would be 39.77Ω)
Energy budget
electrical gross 93.336 W
− coil I²R 26.557 W
= net to load 66.780 W
hydraulic input 3.550 W
eddy (tube wall) 3.40e-7 W
mechanical input 96.887 W (hydraulics + Lenz reaction + eddy)
η = 68.93%
Basis
- Confidence
- 0.70
- Method
- epg-faraday-v1
- Recorded
- Published
- 30 Aug 2026
- Device
- Electrical Particle Generator
- Component
- pickup-coil
- Source Ref
- design session v3
- Notebook Id
- 1655
design-loop epg efficiency