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DC-AC electrical transformer

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1492822

An apparatus and corresponding systems and methods for managing electric power, particularly a transformer system and method, and more specifically a transformer for transforming direct current to alternating current. An example apparatus includes a chamber configured to contain plasma. The apparatus includes input electrodes disposed at least partially within the chamber, and configured to receive direct current input into the chamber. The input electrodes are configured to cause the input direct current to induce motion in the plasma. Motion induced in the plasma transforms current flowing there-through. Output electrodes extend from the chamber, which output electrodes may rotated in a controlled manner. The output electrodes conduct a three or one phase alternating current, from the induced motion in the plasma, for delivery from the chamber.

Research Organization:
Tibbar Plasma Technologies, Inc., Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AR0000677
Assignee:
Nebel, Richard (Los Alamos, NM)
Patent Number(s):
10,172,226
Application Number:
15/338,197
OSTI ID:
1492822
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Compressibility as a feature of field reversal maintenance in the reversed-field pinch journal January 1985
Numerical simulation of Reversed-Field Pinch dynamics journal December 1986

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