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Chapter 7, power conditioning, explosively driven pulsed power, helical magnetic flux compression generators. Kristiansen, simulation of compact explosivelydriven ferroelectric generators, to be published in ieee tps, jan 2010. The 2017 pulsed power conference, a biennial event, will. Explosivelydriven helical magnetocumulative generators hmcgs have a wide variety of applications in todays pulsed power field. Explosively driven pulsed power helical magnetic flux. Click this sentence to download a printable pdf of the program. Explosivelydriven magnetohydrodynamic mhd generator. An explosively driven highpower microwave pulsed power system. A selfcontained, explosivelydriven, highpower microwave system, hpm, has been developed at texas tech university. Helical magnetic flux compression generators power systems springer.
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Compact electroexplosive fuses for explosively driven pulsed power article pdf available in ieee transactions on plasma science 365. Gaudet ja, barker rj, buchenauer cj, christodoulou c, dickens j, gundersen ma, joshi rp, krompholz hg, kolb jf, kuthi a, laroussi m, neuber a, nunnally w, schamiloglu e, schoenbach kh, tyo js, vidmar rj 2004 research issues in developing compact pulsed power for high peak power applications on mobile platforms. It is another object of the invention to provide a high intensity pulsed electron andor positive ion beam source that. This paper describes a coaxial pulsed power system intended to drive a high power microwave diode. Request pdf explosive pulsed power explosive pulsed power generators are. Tagged compression, driven, explosively, flux, generators, helical, magnetic, power, pulsed, systems. In this paper, recent advances in seven types of explosive driven pulsed power generators will be presented. A standalone, selfcontained explosively driven high power microwave pulsed power system has been. Recent efforts at the center for pulsed power and power electronics at texas tech university have been focused on the development of a compact and explosively driven high power microwave, hpm, system. Pulsed power industrial and biomedical applications. Tammo heeren, michael giesselmann, and andreas neuber, chapter 7, power conditioning, explosively driven pulsed power, helical magnetic flux compression generators, springer, berlin, heidelberg, new york, isbn 9783540260516. Explosively driven pulsed power sources make use of the high energy density of explosives. Explosively driven helical magnetocumulative generators hmcgs have a wide variety of applications in todays pulsed power field.
The first section is a 52 f highenergy capacitor followed by a triggered spark gap. Design of a compact power conditioning unit for use with an. Dickens, and magne kristiansen, conductivity measurements of explosively shocked aluminum and ofhc copper used for armature material in a magnetic flux compression generator, presented at the pulsed power conference, dallas, texas, june 1618, 2003. One pulsed power technology studied utilizes high explosives to generate electromagnetic energy while one application studied uses electromagnetic energy to disrupt fastmoving metal jets created using high explosives. Explosive driven pulsed power can be traced back tothe1940s andisanoutgrowth ofthenuclearweapon programs in the united states, united kingdom, and the former soviet union 1. Kristiansen, simulation of compact explosivelydriven ferroelectric generators. A compact, selfcontained high power microwave source based on a reflextriode vircator and explosively driven pulsed power abstract. Explosively driven radio frequency pulse generating. The pulsed power source studied is a helical explosively driven magnetic flux. Explosively driven plasma current generator the united. The energy density of chemical explosives may be hundreds times greater compared to conventional systems which use capacitive, inductive or mechanical energy storage, see table 1. The latest in a series of designs has been tested using a reactive load to diagnose the electrical properties of the mhd generatorelectromagnet combination. Numerical simulation of an explosively driven hvdc circuit breaker jouya jadidian, kaveh niayesh, ehsan hashemi, edris agheb, amir a. The energies available are fairly low, in the range of single joules, the voltages range in tens of kilovolts to over 100 kv, and the powers range in hundreds of.
In the final design, an explosively driven magnetic flux compressor will replace the capacitor. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a. This kind of device converts the chemically stored energy in a high explosive into electromagnetic energy in the form of a powerful current pulse. Plasma jet generators have been designed and tested which used an explosive driver and shocktube with a rectangular cross section that optimize the flow velocity and electrical conductivity. Us4862021a us071,079 us107987a us4862021a us 4862021 a us4862021 a us 4862021a us 107987 a us107987 a us 107987a us 4862021 a us4862021 a us 4862021a authority us united states prior art keywords power supply explosive coil permanent magnet supply according prior art date 19871210 legal status the legal status is an. A common type of mfcg in use is a helical generator, hfcg, because it can provide very high current gain in a compact form. The energies available are fairly low, in the range of single joules, the voltages range in tens of kilovolts to over 100 kv. The increased popularity of high power microwave systems and the various sources to drive them is the motivation behind the work to be presented. A flash xray system for diagnosing liner implosions unt. While the basic operating principles of helical magnetic flux compression generators are easy to understand, the details of their construction and performance limits have been described only in government reports, many of them classified. Shayegani school of electrical and computer engineering, university of tehran, ir14395 tehran, iran high voltage direct current hvdc circuit breakers have to suppress high values of currents at high voltages. Dec 24, 2009 pdf download explosively driven pulsed power helical magnetic flux compression generators power pdf online. Jahan rasty and xiaobin le, james dickens, andreas neuber, and magne kristiansen.
Neuber, springer verlag, august 2005 isbn 354026051x. Successful implementation of a hfcg as a pulsed power. Helical magnetic flux compression generators power. Two generators were studied in order to investigate their performance and to understand their.
Explosive fuses for explosive driven pulsed power, ieee transactions on plasma science 36, 2691 2699 2008. Singleshot high power microwave hpm systems are of particular interest in the defense industry for applications such as electronic warfare. Miniature 100kv explosively driven prime power sources based on transverse shockwave depolarization of pb. Though widely used, the physics of the anomalous flux loss associated with such devices is still poorly understood. In 2004, a series of programs were initiated to develop several types of very compact explosive pulsed power generators. The primary energy source other than the seed energy source driving the microwave load in this system is a midsized, dualstage. A novel type of explosively driven combined pulsed power system was recently developed shkuratov et al. The versatility of this system has allowed us to obtain both single xradiographs of imploding liners and multiple, temporally. A description of an explosive driven high power microwave test bed being built at texas tech will be presented.
This paper describes a low energy flash xray system that is ideal for radiographing a wide variety of experimental phenomenon on both capacitorbank pulsed power facilities and explosively driven magneticflux compression experiments. A compact, selfcontained high power microwave source based. An explosive driven ferroelectric generator edfeg, explosively pumped ferroelectric generator, epfeg, or feg is a compact pulsed power generator, a device used for generation of short highvoltage highcurrent pulse. The generation of high power microwaves using explosively driven pulsed power is of particular interest to the defense community. The system is based on the feg as a primary power source and the spiral vector inversion generator vig as a powerconditioning stage. Helical magnetic flux compression generators power systems by andreas a.
This thesis summarizes work on electrical pulsed power technologies and applications. A standalone, selfcontained explosively driven high power microwave pulsed. An explosively driven highpower microwave pulsed power. Center for pulsed power and power electronics, texas tech university. Pdf download explosively driven pulsed power helical magnetic flux compression generators power pdf online. An explosively pumped flux compression generator epfcg is a device used to generate a high power electromagnetic pulse by compressing magnetic flux using high explosive an epfcg only ever generates a single pulse as the device is physically destroyed during operation. Since the pulsed power field is primarily application driven it has principally engineering flavor. Explosivelydriven helical magnetocumulative generators.
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Nyholm, numerical simulations of flux compression generator systems, proceedings of the 20th iet pulsed power symposium 1719 september 2007, oxfordshire, uk pp. Dielectric breakdown, explosivelydriven pulsed power oxford hall. It is a principal object of the invention to provide a new and improved explosively driven plasma current generator. Helical magnetic flux compression generators power systems at. Texas tech university center for pulsed power and power. Compact electroexplosive fuses for explosively driven.
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