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Title: Design and preliminary test results of the 40 MW power supply at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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OSTI ID:10193776
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
  2. ABB Drives Inc., New Berlin, WI (United States)
  3. National High Magnetic Field Lab., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
  4. Alpha Scientific Electronics Inc., Hayward, CA (United States)

Four highly stabilized, steady-state, 10 MW power supplies have been installed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL. Each supply consists of a 12.5 kV vacuum circuit breaker, two three-winding, step-down transformers, a 24-pulse rectifier with interphase reactors and freewheeling diodes, and a passive and an active filter. Two different transformer tap settings allow dc supply output voltages of 400 and 500 V. The rated current of a supply is 17 kA and each supply has a one hour overload capability of 20 kA. The power supply output bus system, including a reversing switch at the input and 2 {times} 16 disconnect switches at the output, connects each supply to 16 different magnet cells. The design of the power supply is described and preliminary test results with a supply feeding a 10 MW resistive load are presented.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States); Florida State Energy Office, Tallahassee, FL (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
10193776
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-93-3715; CONF-930926-20; ON: DE94002696; TRN: 93:025705
Resource Relation:
Conference: 13. international conference on magnet technology,Victoria (Canada),20-24 Sep 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English