Author: Yadav, V.
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MOPP004 Design and Development of Pulsed Modulators for RF Electron Linacs 55
 
  • K.P. Dixit, S. Chandan, N. Chaudhary, R.B. Chavan, L.M. Gantayet, S.R. Ghodke, M. Kumar, K.C. Mittal, H.E. Sarukte, A.R. Tillu, H. Tyagi, V. Yadav
    BARC, Mumbai, India
 
  Pulsed Modulators required for RF sources, based on klystrons and magnetrons, for RF electron linacs have been designed and developed at Electron Beam Centre, BARC, Mumbai, India. Electron guns in these linacs have also been powered by pulsed modulators. Line-type modulators, as well as IGBT-based solid-state modulators have been developed for these applications. A 150 kV/100 A line-type modulator has been tested on klystron to generate 7 MW peak RF Power. Magnetron modulator has undergone testing up to 40 kV, 165 A on resistive load. Solid-state modulator, using fractional-turn pulse transformer has been designed, developed and tested successfully on magnetron load up to output power of 1.3 MW peak. A transformerless solid-state modulator for electron gun of 6 MeV cargo-scanning linac, uses the Marx adder configuration and has been successfully tested up to 40 kV. In addition, line-type modulators for electron guns up to 85 kV have been successfully commissioned and are in operation in the linac systems. This paper describes the salient design features of these modulators, development of pulse transformers, details of test set-up and discusses the test results of these modulators.  
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MOPP005 High Power Electron Accelerator Programme at BARC 58
 
  • K.C. Mittal, S. Acharya, R.I. Bakhtsingh, R. Barnwal, D. Bhattacharjee, S. Chandan, N. Chaudhary, R.B. Chavan, S.P. Dewangan, K.P. Dixit, S. Gade, L.M. Gantayet, S.R. Ghodke, S. Gond, D. Jayaprakash, M. Kumar, M.K. Kumar, H.K. Manjunatha, R.L. Mishra, J. Mondal, B. Nayak, S. Nayak, V.T. Nimje, S. Parashar, R. Patel, R.N. Rajan, P.C. Saroj, H.E. Sarukte, D.K. Sharma, V. Sharma, S.K. Srivasatava, N.T. Thakur, A.R. Tillu, R. Tiwari, H. Tyagi, A. Waghmare, V. Yadav
    BARC, Mumbai, India
 
  Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India has taken up the indigenous design & development of high power electron accelerators for industrial, research and cargo-scanning applications. For this purpose, Electron Beam Centre (EBC) has been set up at Navi Mumbai, India. Pulsed RF Linacs, with on-axis coupled cavity configuration, include the 10 MeV Industrial RF linac, as well as 9 MeV linac and compact 6 MeV linac for cargo-scanning applications. Industrial DC accelerators include a 500 keV Cockroft-Walton machine and 3 MeV Dynamitron. Several radiation processing applications, such as material modification, food preservation, flue-gas treatment, etc. have been demonstrated using these accelerators. Cargo-scanning linacs have been successfully commissioned and are being characterized for the required x-ray output. A 30 MeV RF Linac, for research applications, such as shielding studies and n-ToF experiments, is being designed and developed. For ADS studies, a 100 MeV, 100 kW RF Linac system is proposed. This paper presents the details of the design of these accelerators, their development, current status and utilization for various applications.