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Title

  • Main Title The Ranchero explosive pulsed power system

Creator

  • Author: Goforth, J.H.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Atchison, W.L.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Bartram, D.E.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: New Mexico
    Additional Info: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1997-09-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The authors are currently developing a high explosive pulsed power system concept that they call Ranchero. Ranchero systems consist of series-parallel combinations of simultaneously initiated coaxial magnetic flux compression generators, and are intended to operate in the range from 50 MA to a few hundred MA currents. One example of a Ranchero system is shown here. The coaxial modules lend themselves to extracting the current output either from one end or along the generator midplane. They have previously published design considerations related to the different module configurations, and in this paper they concentrate on the system that they will use for their first imploding liner tests. A single module with end output. The module is 1.4-m long and expands the armature by a factor of two to reach the 30-cm OD stator. The first heavy liner implosion experiments will be conducted in the range of 40--50 MA currents. Electrical tests, to date, have employed high explosive (HE) charges 43-cm long. They have performed tests and related 1D MHD calculations at the 45-MA current level with small loads. From these results, they determine that they can deliver currents of approximately 50 MA to loads of 8 nH.
  • Physical Description: 8 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Power Supplies
  • Keyword: Chemical Explosives
  • STI Subject Categories: 70 Plasma Physics And Fusion
  • Keyword: Liners
  • Keyword: Magnetic Compression
  • Keyword: Design
  • Keyword: Pulse Circuits
  • Keyword: Magnetic Flux
  • Keyword: Electric Currents
  • Keyword: Implosions

Source

  • Conference: 11. IEEE international pulsed power conference, Baltimore, MD (United States), 29 Jun - 2 Jul 1997

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE97008871
  • Report No.: LA-UR--97-2411
  • Report No.: CONF-9706113--
  • Grant Number: W-7405-ENG-36
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 541869
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc696558

Note

  • Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE97008871
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