• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2003

Design and test results of a VRAG(Vacuum Rotary Arc Gap) switch were presented. To control the damage of electrodes caused by the vacuum arc, Lorentz's force by the radial magnetic field between spiral electrodes was used to rotate the vacuum uc. VRAG switch electrodes were made of the material of CuCr and OFHC. Gap distance between two spiral type electrodes for the rotation of the arc discharge is 8, 10, 12mm. In the cathode, one trigger electrode was inserted into each spiral wing. Normal operation of the VRAG switch was confirmed with 10.6[$mutextrm{s}$]of trigger delay and 2~3[$mutextrm{s}$] of the jitter time. The speed of the vacuum arc was measured to be 0.6 ~ 1[km/s] by a motion analyzer.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07e
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• pp.2239-2241
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• 1999

The most important question is how to use which kind of switch in pulsed power generation. There are many kinds of commercial closing switches, which have advantages and disadvantages. The most popular closing switch is the spark gap, but it has a disadvantage in life time, because of erosion of electrodes by arc heating. The Rotary Arc Gap (RAG) switch, especially Walkie-Edgar type RAG switch, was proposed to solve such problems in spark gap. It has a simple and special structure for arc moving caused from self-induced electromagnetic force, because moving arc makes less erosion on the electrodes. In this study we have made an Walkie-Edgar type RAG switch, tested the switching with capacitive energy storage system, and measured rotating arc speed in different peak current.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.2135-2137
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• 2000

Usually arc phenomena are not easily characterized due to unstable behavior very short existence-times, high temperature and the required isolation of measurement instruments. This paper presents some arc-behaviors in a rotary arc gap-switch(RAG) using a 500kJ capacitor bank. It includes the speed variations of the rotating arc, the impacts of the oscillating current on the arc initiations and re-ignitions. Changes in the arc-dimension with respect to time and current magnitudes are also analyzed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.1868-1870
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• 2002

최근 고전압/대전류 펄스파워응용이 점차 늘어나고 있다. 정전형 고전압/대전류용 펄스파워전원장치의 핵심인 폐스위치의 수요 또한 점차 증가 할 것으로 추정된다. 펄스파워전원장치의 안정적이고 신뢰성 있는 동작을 위해서는 주위 조건에 영향을 받지 않는 진공 스위치가 적합하다. 진공펌프, 챔버없이 사용이 간편하도록 sealed-off화되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 챔버내에서 동작이 확인된 회전 아크형 진공 스위치를 유지전압 22[kV]. 첨두전류 150[kAp]의 사양으로 스위치를 sealed off 제작 및 이를 동작 시험한 결과에 대해 기술하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.1692-1694
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• 2003

펄스파워 시스템의 핵심은 스위치로서 현재까지 상당히 많은 종류가 개발되어 왔다. 이들 스위치는 구조 및 성능에 따라 장단점이 다르므로 목적에 적합한 시스템을 고려해 선택하여 사용되어 왔다. 일예로 펄스폭이 긴파형의 전류는 아크를 소화할수 있는 장치가 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 진공중의 두전극 (anode - cathode)을 나선형으로 제작하여 실험 하였다. 이방식은 결과적으로 아크를 회전시켜서 소호를 시키는 방식을 이용하였는데 전극의 수명을 연장시키는 효과를 얻을수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07e
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• pp.2242-2244
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• 1999

Recently, An important research field of pulsed power is high voltage, high power generation with exploding wire opening switch. Another point of view exploding wire effects have been researched for generation of the pulsed high pressure shock wave. Theoretical considerations of the shock pressure generation along with experiment results are presented in this paper and. Some experimental results of hard rock fracturing show the possibilities of commercial using.