PHELIX

Author

Rousculp, C.L. ; Turchi, P.J. ; Reass, W.A. ; Oro, D.M. ; Merrill, F.E. ; Griego, J.R. ; Reinovsky, R.E.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

368

Lastpage

371

Abstract

The Precision, High-Energy density, Liner Implosion eXperiment (PHELIX) pulsed power driver is currently under development at Los Alamos National Laboratory. When operational PHELIX will provide 0.5-1.0 MJ of capacitively stored energy into cm size liners that will reach implosion velocities of 1-4 km/s with approximately 10-20 microsecond implosion time. Peak load currents will be in the 5-10 megamp range. To do this the machine will employ a reusable, multi-turn primary, single-turn secondary transformer to couple the 100-120 kV Marx capacitor system to the load. The transformer has been designed toward a coupling coefficient of 0.9. PHELIX is designed to be portable with only an 8 Ã— 25 ft² footprint. This will allow the machine to be taken to the experiment designer´s diagnostic of choice. The first such diagnostic will the LANL proton-radiography facility. There the multi-frame, high-resolution, imaging capability will be used to study hydrodynamic and material phenomena.

Keywords

power transformers; pulsed power supplies; radiography; LANL proton-radiography facility; Marx capacitor system; PHELIX; capacitively stored energy; coupling coefficient; implosion time; implosion velocities; multi-turn primary transformer; peak load currents; pulsed power driver; single-turn secondary transformer; Capacitors; Diagnostic radiography; Electric shock; High-resolution imaging; Hydrodynamics; Laboratories; Materials science and technology; Protons; Pulse transformers; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 2009. PPC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4064-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4065-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.2009.5386288

Filename

5386288