Title :
Plasma flow switch experiment on Procyon
Author :
Benage, J.F., Jr. ; Bowers, R. ; Peterson, D. ; Shlachter, J.S. ; Goforth, J. ; Oona, H. ; Idzorek, G. ; Wysocki, F.J. ; Anderson, W. ; Anderson, B. ; Garcia, O.
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Abstract :
The authors report here results obtained from a series of plasma flow switch experiments performed on the Procyon explosive pulsed power generator. These experiments involved switching into a fixed inductance dummy load and also into a dynamic implosion load. The results indicate that the switch did fairly well at switching current into the load, but the results for the implosion are more ambiguous. The authors compare these results to calculations and discuss the implications for future plasma flow switch work.
Keywords :
explosions; load (electric); plasma devices; plasma switches; power supplies to apparatus; pulse generators; pulsed power switches; Procyon explosive pulsed power generator; dynamic implosion load; inductive dummy load; load current switching; plasma flow switch; Coaxial components; Electrodes; Laboratories; Magnetic forces; Magnetic switching; Plasma accelerators; Plasma density; Plasma sources; Power transmission lines; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Pulsed Power Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers., Tenth IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2791-8
DOI :
10.1109/PPC.1995.596481
