Impressed Current Pulses for High Pressure Gasdischarges

Abstract

An inductive energy storage system supplying a high pressure gas-discharge device is given. It consists of a 500 kJ storage coil with a scheme of commercially available circuit breakers. Current pulses up to 10 kA of nearly rectangular shape can be formed for times in the range of 1 to 10 ms. In addition the set-up of a high pressure gas-discharge device and results of a characteristic high pressure experiment are described. Finally the results are compared with those of a capacitively supplied discharge.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA640194

Entities

People

  • Juergen G. Salge
  • Thomas H. Weise
  • Ulrich E. Braunsberger

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Capacitors
  • Circuit Breakers
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • High Pressure
  • Impedance
  • Materials
  • Power Supplies
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Pulse Transmitters
  • Rectifiers
  • Storage
  • Switches
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.