Optimized rotary flux compressors for powering laser flashlamps

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5663380

Carder, B; Lundberg, R

Two ARFC's were optimized with the LLNL code. The large machine had a 42-inch diameter rotor. It provided 14 MJ of energy to a flashlamp load in a 900 ..mu..sec, 16 GW pulse. Its mass was 30 tonnes. The small machine provided a peak power of 8 GW in a 590 ..mu..sec pulse, and delivered 5.4 MJ to the flashlamp load. Its mass was 13 tonnes. The parameters of these optimized machines are summarized in Table 1. Both of these devices were 8 pole ARFC's with two turns per pole.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5663380
• Report Number(s): UCRL-88690; CONF-830621-46; ON: DE84002794
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE power electronics specialists conference, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 6 Jun 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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