Harmonic filter for magnetic amplifier
A magnetic amplifier includes a permeable core having multiple legs. Control windings wound around separate legs are spaced apart and connected in series in an anti-symmetric relation. Harmonic filters are positioned adjacent to the control windings to attenuate even-ordered harmonics generated by alternating load current passing through a portion of the legs. The control windings bias magnetic flux arising from control current flowing through one of the control windings which is substantially equal to the biasing magnetic flux flowing into a second control winding. The flow of the control current through each of the control windings changes the reactance of the permeable core reactor by driving those portions of the permeable core that convey the biasing magnetic flux into saturation. The phasing of the control winding limits a voltage induced in the plurality of control windings caused by a magnetic flux passing around a portion of the permeable core.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Assignee:
- UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
- Patent Number(s):
- 10,110,186
- Application Number:
- 15/146,671
- OSTI ID:
- 1489914
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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