Design and Testing of the Power Electronics for the Cannon Caliber Electromagnetic Gun System

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dc.creatorPenney, C.E.en
dc.creatorHotz, T.J.en
dc.creatorKitzmiller, J.R.en
dc.creatorWerst, M.D.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-04T16:04:28Zen
dc.date.available2015-09-04T16:04:28Zen
dc.date.issued1997-01en
dc.description.abstractThe University of Texas Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM) is in the final fabrication and testing phase of a power electronics system required to operate a skid mounted compulsator-driven railgun. Design goals for the self-excited air core compulsator include a 95 MW rectifier/inverter bridge for field coil self-excitation. Initial field coil seed energy is supplied by a 50 kJ capacitive discharge from the field initiation module. The field coil is passively protected from voltage transients by an array of metal oxide varistors. Other system power modules include the gun closing switch and explosive opening switch. This paper presents a brief system overview and detailed design of the rectifier/inverter bridge module with performance data from shots up to 6en
dc.description.departmentCenter for Electromechanicsen
dc.identifierPR_217en
dc.identifier.citationC.E. Penney, T.J. Hotz, J.R. Kitzmiller, and M.D. Werst, “Design and testing of the power electronics for the cannon caliber electromagnetic gun system,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 33, no. 1, January 1997, pp. 484-489.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/30559en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIEEEen
dc.relation.ispartofCEM Publicationsen
dc.rights.restrictionopenen
dc.subjectRotating Machine EM Launchen
dc.subjectcompulsator-driven railgunen
dc.subjectem gunen
dc.subjectem railgunen
dc.subjectself-excitationen
dc.titleDesign and Testing of the Power Electronics for the Cannon Caliber Electromagnetic Gun Systemen
dc.typearticleen

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