An Introduction to Pulsed Power Systems
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/17/2024
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
CSU - Washkewicz Hall 405
Categories No Categories
Speaker: Allen Morinec Jr., R&D Engineer / Pulsed Power & RF Team Leader
from the Detonation Science & Technology Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Pulsed power is the science and technology of accumulating electrical energy over a relatively long period of time and releasing it almost instantaneous, thus amplifying in the instantaneous power by millions to billions of times. Applications include food processing, inertial confinement fusion, radiation effects, fundamental physics, particle accelerators, directed energy systems, medical devices, and more much. Similarities and differences between pulsed power and traditional power systems (the electric utility grid) will be highlighted. The talk will include topics from the following areas and present the history of the field from early high voltage radar technology to analyzing modern pulsed power sources capable of instantaneous power in the 100s of TWs and currents in the 100s of MAs.
Registration at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/433785
Certificate for 2 CPD Hours will be available