The Oxford pulsed magnetic field facility

Journal Article · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/20.305613· OSTI ID:32087

Siertsema, W J; Jones, H ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Clarendon Lab.

The authors give here a description of the newly commissioned 60 tesla or more pulsed field facility constructed over the last three years. It comprises a 800 kJ 32 mF capacitor bank, a high current switch using either an ignitron or thyristor stack, and a crowbar circuit. The system is designed to be flexible enough to cope with a wide variety of coils allowing pulse lengths of up to 100 ms to be produced. The design philosophy, control, monitoring, data collection, and safety will be discussed.

• OSTI ID: 32087
• Report Number(s): CONF-930926-; ISSN 0018-9464; TRN: IM9517%%382
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 30, Issue 4Pt2; Conference: 13. international conference on magnet technology, Victoria (Canada), 20-24 Sep 1993; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES
TEST FACILITIES
DESIGN
PULSED MAGNET COILS
MAGNETS
CAPACITIVE ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
POWER SUPPLIES
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
CONTROL SYSTEMS