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INFLUENCE OF GRID NODE DESIGN PARAMETERS IN GAS-DISCHARGE THYRATRON-TYPE CURRENT SWITCH ON DEVICE INTERNAL HEATING
S. A. Kruglov, Dr. Sc. (Tech.), full professor, Department of industrial electronics, Head of the Department, RSREU, Ryazan, Russia; orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-7319, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A. A. Serezhin, Ph.D. (Tech.), associate professor, Department of industrial electronics, RSREU, Ryazan, Russia;
orcid.org/0000-0001-8134-8970, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
D. S. Kusakin, Ph.D. (Phys. and Math.), associate professor, Department of electronic devices, RSREU, Ryazan, Russia;
orcid.org/0000-0002-1596-2136, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. K. D. Agaltsov, senior lecturer, Department of industrial electronics, RSREU, Ryazan, Russia;
orcid.org/0000-0001-6475-9364, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This paper presents the results of experimental studies of the effect of changing operating temperature on the operation mode of gas-discharge thyratron-type current switches in a circuit with inductive energy storage. The analysis of the results obtained made it possible to establish that the average settling time of a gas-discharge switch in continuous frequency mode is 20 min. Based on surface temperature distributions of functional units of the device over time, it can be seen that the degree of heating of anode, grid and cathode nodes increases towards anode unit at Um≥30 kV, at Um≤30 kV the degree of heating increases towards grid and cathode units , due to a change in the ratio of switching losses and conduction losses. In a new gasdischarge switch, it was possible to reduce the heating of grid node by an average of 15 – 20 %. The aim of the work is to study the effect of temperature on the operation mode of gas-discharge current switches in a circuit with inductive energy storage.
Key words: gas-discharge current interrupters, low-pressure plasma, current self-cutting effect, inductive energy storage, critical charge, grid electrode flange temperature.