S.M.E.S. Coil Study for Pulsed Discharge

摘要

This paper deals with a pulsed power supply for rail electromagnetic launchers.The adopted principle is based on the fast discharge of the whole stored magnetic energy in a superconducting coil to the load. The discharge is carried out by including the quench of the storage coil and using the transformer effect. The first part consists in computing the electromagnetic parameters of the superconducting magnetic energy storage (S.M.E.S) which has a toroidal configuration. Furthermore, a method to determine the design characteristics of the S.M.E.S. is described. Last but not least, this item raises the issue of pulsed discharge and presents some results stemming from the analysis of pulsed transformer.