High Voltage Pulse Generator Using Transformer Parasitic Components for Pulsed Corona Discharge Generation

This paper proposes a new topology of a nanosecond, high voltage pulse generator devoted to pulsed corona discharge (PCD) reactor supply. The proposed topology is based on solid state, semiconductor switches and uses parasitic components of transformers. A prototype construction of the proposed generator loaded with a PCD reactor with 6.4-pF capacitance is able to generate high voltage pulses with maximum amplitude of 14 kV (using 5.4-kV supply and up to six modules of proposed topology, each equipped with a MOSFET transistor with 1-kV blocking capability) with voltage steepness of 730 V/ns. Obtained pulses are 65-ns long. The peak power delivered to the PCD reactor is > 0.3 MW while the energy consumed reaches 7 mJ/pulse. This paper also compares two different mechanical constructions of such generators and gives an overview of analytical and numerical voltage waveform analyzes.