Experimental research of energy balance during the formation of high energy plasma objects (EPO)

Summary form only given, as follows. This work is devoted to the investigation of energetic characteristics of EPO and to the research of energy balance in order to choose the optimum regime. EPO generators work in the energy range 20-150 J. Plasma formations are obtained with the help of the erosional discharge in the cylindrical channel with dielectric walls. The discharger was set in a germetic gas calorimeter. Ten energetic components in the equation of energy balance were measured or estimated: the energy of discharge, the energy, which translated to heat of the calorimeter´s gas, the energy of heat of graphite electrode, the energy of heat of the dielectric channel, radiant energy, chemical energy of burning of known quantities of dielectric, copper and carbon etc. It was shown that optimum regime of EPO generators work with efficiency 138%(+-28%) corresponds to the energy equal 30 J.