Trigger pulse feed and cable protection for MV electrical-triggered gas switch
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摘要: 采用电脉冲触发兆伏(MV)级开关,触发器与被触发开关之间既需要良好的电气连接以保证触发脉冲的有效施加,还需要隔离保护措施以避免开关导通后形成的MV级主脉冲反馈回触发器导致其损坏。介绍了一种用于MV级电触发开关的触发脉冲引入方法,该方法将保护电阻放置在脉冲传输线的内外筒之间。当开关导通后,形成的MV级主脉冲经保护元件后再反馈回触发电缆。由于保护电阻与触发电缆之间近似按阻值(阻抗)分压,因此耦合进入触发电缆的脉冲的幅值远低于主脉冲的幅值,而保护电感能够有效抑制开关在导通过程中形成的快前沿、高幅值的电脉冲。结合提出的触发脉冲引入方法,讨论了开关导通过程对触发保护元件的影响,结合等效电路分析了保护电阻、保护电感所起的作用,实验研究了保护元件参数对开关触发特性的影响,最终将这两个保护元件的参数分别设定为500 Ω和2 μH,在此配置下开关在2.6 MV工作电压下实现稳定运行。Abstract: When a MV triggered gas switch (TGS) is triggered by an electric pulse, a good electrical connection between the trigger generator and the TGS is required to ensure the trigger effect. Besides, a protective method is also necessary to avoid the damage to the trigger generator which feeds back from the MV main pulse after the TGS is closed. In this paper, a novel trigger pulse feed and protection method is introduced. The trigger pulse is introduced via a protective resistor, which is mounted between the inner and outer cylindrical electrodes of the pulse transmission line. The MV pulse is attenuated because the voltage is resistively divided by the resistor and trigger cable arrangement. Both the complex breakdown processes of the switch and its insulation issues are experimentally studied. The function and the beneficial effects of the protective resistor, installed together with an additional inductor, are discussed. Finally, the structure and parameters of these two protective components are set to 500 Ω and 2 μH, in which conditions the switch is demonstrated to successfully work at 2.6 MV.
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Key words:
- pulsed power /
- induction voltage adder /
- MV gas switch /
- triggered gas switch /
- trigger pulse feed
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表 1 开关实验绝缘损坏情况统计
Table 1. Insulation failures events during the TGS test
working
voltage/
MVnumber
of shotsresistance/
Ωinductance/
nH*insulation status conditions of test and TGS trigger
cableresistor
insulator1.95 18 340 150 damaged damaged The original TGS, and the duration of high voltage is about 370 ns. 1.95 86 1050 150 safe damaged 1.95 12 812 150 safe safe The optimized TGS,the main gap spacing is increased from 100 mm to 105 mm and the spacing of disc-ground gap is reduced from 41 mm to 33 mm. 2.27 23 812 150 safe damaged 2.27 35 780 2000 safe safe 1.80 140 500 2000 safe safe The optimized TGS, and the duration of high voltage is about 310 ns. 2.17 60 500 2000 safe safe 2.53 86 500 2000 safe safe * Note: Without additional protective inductor, the inductance of electoral connection between TGS and protective resistor is about 150 nH. -
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