Preliminary Design of a Reuseable PPMHD (Pulsed Plasma MHD) Power Supply Test Bed Facility.

Abstract

This report describes a preliminary design of a reuseable pulsed plasma Magnetohydrodynamic, (PPMHD) power supply test bed facility that operates in the gigawatt/megajoule regime. The current status of PPMHD component technologies is described as a basis for present and future hardware designs. This includes a discussion of an approach to self-excited operation which is an extension of demonstrated component technologies. Size scaling relations are presented for estimating PPMHD power supply weights in terms of electrical output power and energy. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA144147

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  • J. D. Watson
  • S. P. Gill
  • W. L. Shimmin

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Databases
  • Electric Power
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Energy
  • Energy Conversion
  • Energy Transfer
  • Engineering
  • Explosives
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • Power Supplies
  • Pulse Transformers
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds
  • Test Facilities
  • Transmission Lines

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