Rapid charger for high repetition rate pulse generator

Author

Kuthi, Andras ; Young, Clayton ; Wang, Fei ; Wijetunga, Panduka ; Gundersen, Martin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. - Electrophys., Southern California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

15-18 June 2003

Firstpage

950

Abstract

The design and operation of a command resonant charger feeding a high repetition rate pulse generator using an advanced pseudospark device is presented. An application - corona assisted flame ignition and combustion - is discussed briefly. This application requires operation of the pseudospark switch at 30 kV charging voltage and 1 kHz repetition rate. The charging time of the 6 nF / 30 kV quasi Blumlein pulse forming circuit capacitance is 50 /spl mu/s. Operation is burst mode, with maximum 100 pulses per burst.

Keywords

capacitance; combustion; ignition; pulse generators; pulsed power switches; 1 kHz; 30 kV; 50 mus; burst mode operation; combustion; command resonant charger; corona assisted flame ignition; pseudospark switch; quasi Blumlein pulse forming circuit capacitance; rate pulse generator; repetition rate; Capacitance; Combustion; Corona; Fires; Ignition; Pulse circuits; Pulse generation; Resonance; 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.2003.1277968

Filename

1277968