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A Robust Modular IGBT Power Supply for Innovative Confinement Concepts

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: DE-FG02-09ER85336
Agency Tracking Number: 91504
Amount: $99,787.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: 56 d
Solicitation Number: DE-FOA-0000350
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
Suite D3 #179
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
United States
DUNS: 625349639
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Timothy Ziemba
 Dr.
 (206) 780-3667
 ziemba@eagleharbortech.com
Business Contact
 Timothy Ziemba
Title: Dr.
Phone: (206) 780-3667
Email: ziemba@eagleharbortech.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Among current challenges in fusion science is the ability to generate increased power levels at a reasonable cost for pulsed magnets, arc plasma sources, radio frequency (RF) heating, and current drive schemes, using current generation solid state devices. However, power supplies based on continuous wave (CW) tubes are typically large and expensive, making them prohibitive for smaller experimental facilities or not cost effective when only pulsed input power is required. Next generation solid state power supplies could allow for multiple applications with a single well-developed module that could be configured in many ways. Therefore, this project will develop, build, and test a modular solid state power supply based on Insulate Gate Bi-polar Transistor (IGBT) technologies, which have seen dramatic increases in operational parameters in the last five years. Phase I will produce a power supply prototype design that will be tested on the high power Rotating Magnetic Field (RMF) for the Translation Confinement and Sustainment Upgrade (TCSU) device at the Redmond Plasma Physics Laboratory, providing a proof of principle for IGBT based power supplies. Commercial Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee A low-cost, highly-configurable, high-current, high-voltage solid state pulsed power supply would be beneficial to such fusion science applications as wave heating schemes, current drive, plasma arc sources, and ignitron replacements. Other areas of interest would include pulsed power supplies for linear accelerators, in-space electric thrusters, and semiconductor fabrication applications

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