Explosive pulsed power driven plasma gun experiment
Creators
- 1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
Description
The Los Alamos Trailmaster plasma implosion program is exploring the concept of coupling together a plasma flow switch (PFS) and an explosive pulsed power system to drive a foil-plasma z-pinch experiment. The PFS provides an opening switch inside the vacuum region of the experiment and allows energy to be delivered past the vacuum-dielectric interface at lower voltage than is possible with external switches. The explosive pulsed power system consists of a MK-IX explosive flux compression generator delivering current to a storage inductor. The current is subsequently diverted to the PFS by one switching stage outside the vacuum. The MK-IX delivers up to 24 MA into a 56-nH storage inductor, and the amount of this current that can be diverted to the load depends on the design and performance of the opening switch and load
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- IEEE Service Center.
- Imprint Place
- Piscataway, NJ (USA)
- Imprint Title
- 1990 IEEE international conference on plasma science-Conference Record-Abstracts
- Imprint Pagination
- 231 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 185.
Conference
- Title
- 17. IEEE international conference on plasma science (ICOPS 17).
- Dates
- 21-23 May 1990.
- Place
- Oakland, CA (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22057817
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ELECTRIC FUSES; EXPLOSIONS; FABRICATION; FOILS; IMPLOSIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; LANL; LINEAR Z PINCH DEVICES; PERFORMANCE; PLASMA GUNS; PLASMA SWITCHES; POWER; PULSES; SPECIFICATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- CONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ENERGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT PROTECTION DEVICES; LINEAR PINCH DEVICES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OPEN PLASMA DEVICES; PINCH DEVICES; SWITCHES; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-900585--.