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

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

3-6 July 1995

Firstpage

208

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers., Tenth IEEE International

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2791-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.1995.596481

Filename

596481