Operation of triggerable gas diverters on SYRINX/GSI water transmission line

Author

Kim, A.A. ; Kovalchuk, Boris M. ; Volkov, S.N. ; Sinebryukhov, V.A. ; Lassalle, F. ; Avrillaud, G.

Author_Institution

High Current Electron. Inst., Tomsk, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

1743

Abstract

SYRINX/GSI is a 640 kJ installation that has been created at CEG in order to test advanced pulsed power technologies. Four fast Marxes charge a 110 ns, 0.135 Ohm Water Transmission Line (WTL) in /spl sim/700 ns to /spl sim/600 kV, downstream the WTL locates the 110 nH vacuum inductive storage, and the POS. During tests in full configuration it was found that the WTL can be damaged due to breakdowns in water as the reversal voltage in WTL exceeds /spl sim/350 kV. The report presents the design and the operation of the triggerable gas diverters that were developed at HCEI and installed on SYRINX/GSI to protect the WTL from reversal voltage.

Keywords

electric breakdown; inductive energy storage; power transmission lines; pulse generators; pulsed power supplies; test facilities; 0.135 ohm; 110 ns; 350 kV; 600 kV; 640 kJ; 700 ns; Marx generators; SYRINX/GSI water transmission line; pulsed power technologies; reversal voltage; triggerable gas diverters; vacuum inductive storage; Breakdown voltage; Electrodes; Electronic equipment testing; Fault location; Power transmission lines; Protection; Shock waves; Spark gaps; Transmission lines; Water storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Plasma Science, 2001. PPPS-2001. Digest of Technical Papers

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7120-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPPS.2001.1001908

Filename

1001908