FACES OF LENR: Part 5B: Design and Operation Principles of LENR Reactors.

This is the second paper in the series about the design and operation of LENR reactors, to be followed by Part 5C on the same subject. While in Part 5A we mainly discussed the reactors based on electrolysis that were at the center of research for decades, a new field of reactors based on dusty plasma was also discussed. We move into a new area in Part 5B: LENR reactors based on quasi-particles. Though plasmon polaritons and condensed plasmoids were frequently mentioned in all previous parts, we shall move towards their practical applications. First the landscape of mainstream transient plasma research is shown. There the streamers of corona and spark discharges are known to produce heavy negative quasi-particles. However, they have never been tested for catalytic nuclear fusion, just as chemical catalysts. We shall review spark related research, as this area is shown to induce fusion effects. Most of the results have been published in peer-reviewed journals, like Fusion Technology. The most important results have come from the papers of Matsumoto, Karabut and Dufour. The most important patents were granted to Shoulders. These results were published mainly in the 1990s, the "golden age" of LENR research. Based on these results and insights, we move back a hundred years, to the research of Tesla. Judging by the shape of his discharge tubes, it is plausible that Tesla had a practical application of the results published 100 years later. In Part 5C, inventions after the 1930s will be analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]