Development, analysis, and control of the inductor-converter bridge

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5922811· OSTI ID:5922811

Ehsani, Mehrdad; Kustom, Robert L.

The inductor-converter bridge (ICB) is a solid state dc-ac-dc power converter system for bidirectional, controllable, energy transfer between two high Q magnet coils. The ICB is suitable for supplying large pulsed power to such magnets as the superconducting equilibrium field (EF) coil of the proposed tokamak power reactors, from another superconducting energy storage coil. This report presents work on the analysis and control of the ICB system. The process of energy transfer between the coils is explained on the basis of a simple one line equivalent circuit. This circuit is the topological dual of the one line diagram of the nonsalient pole synchoronous generator, connected to the infinite bus through its synchronous reactance. The changes in the average power, average coil currents, and voltages, as functions of time, are calculated by the conventional Fourier method of analysis.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5922811
• Report Number(s): ANL/FPP/TM--144; ON: DE82001611
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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