Investigations into the use of an LLC converter for rep-rate capacitor charging systems

Author

Huhman, Brett M. ; Neri, J.M. ; Wetz, David A.

Author_Institution

Plasma Phys. Div., US Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Summary form only given. The Materials Testing Facility (MTF) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is developing a battery-powered, rep-rate charger for a 60-kJ capacitor bank. The objective is to charge a 4800-μF capacitor to 5-kV in four seconds for a fifty shot burst. A bank of LiFePO₄ batteries is used with a full H-bridge converter, a transformer, and a rectifier to transform the 500V battery voltage to 5-kV secondary voltage.

Keywords

iron compounds; lithium compounds; power capacitors; power convertors; power transformers; rectifiers; secondary cells; LLC converter; LiFePO₄; MTF; NRL; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory; batteries; battery-powered charger; capacitance 4800 muF; capacitor bank; energy 60 kJ; full H-bridge converter; materials testing facility; rectifier; rep-rate capacitor charging systems; rep-rate charger; transformer; voltage 5 kV; voltage 500 V; Batteries; Capacitors; Heat sinks; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Laboratories; Plasmas; Rectifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2013 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2013.6635074

Filename

6635074