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Author(s) |
Reddy, C. S.; Patel, A. S.; Naresh, P.; Sharma, A.; Mittal, K. C. (A&PPD)
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Source |
Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014. Vol. 85 (6): pp. 064703.1-064703.9 |
ABSTRACT
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voltage recovery in a spark gap for repetitive switching has been a
long research interest. A two-pulse technique is used to determine the
voltage recovery times of gas spark gap switch with argon gas. First
pulse is applied to the spark gap to over-volt the gap and initiate the
breakdown and second pulse is used to determine the recovery voltage of
the gap . A pulse transformer based double pulse generator capable of
generating 40 kV peak pulses with rise time of 300 ns and 1.5 μs FWHM and with a delay of 10 μs–1 s was developed. A matrix transformer topology is used to get fast rise times by reducing LlCd
product in the circuit. Recovery Experiments have been conducted for 2
mm, 3 mm, and 4 mm gap length with 0–2 bars pressure for argon gas.
Electrodes of a sparkgap chamber are of rogowsky profile type, made up
of stainless steel material, and thickness of 15 mm are used in the
recovery study. The variation in the distance and pressure effects the
recovery rate of the spark gap. An intermediate plateu is observed in
the spark gap recovery curves. Recovery time decreases with increase in
pressure and shorter gaps in length are recovering faster than longer
gaps. |
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