Air insulated LTD stage with stored energy of 5.5 kJ and output power of 14 GW

Author

Kovalchuk, B.M. ; Kim, A.A. ; Kumpjak, E.V. ; Tsou, N.V.

Author_Institution

High Current Electron. Inst., Tomsk, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

15-18 June 2003

Firstpage

1455

Abstract

In the report we present the design and test results of the linear transformer driver (LTD) stage that does not need any liquid or compressed gas for insulation inside the cavity and operation of the switches. The only gas, which is used, is air at atmospheric pressure. At peak charge voltage of 85 kV the stage delivers to the matched load of /spl sim/0.15 Ohms the 14 GW power pulse with the rise time of /spl sim/180 ns. The stage is developed to demonstrate the possibility to simplify the LTD technology of the primary energy storages in maintenance and application.

Keywords

air; air insulation; atmospheric pressure; electric potential; energy storage; pulsed power switches; 14 GW; 5.5 kJ; 85 kV; air; air insulated linear transformer driver stage; atmospheric pressure; energy storage; peak charge voltage; power pulse; Capacitors; Electrodes; Electronic equipment testing; Energy storage; Gas insulation; Polyethylene; Power generation; Power transformer insulation; Switches; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. PPC-2003. 14th IEEE International

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7915-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.2003.1278090

Filename

1278090