Resonant Generator Discharger Array for Frequency Drift Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electric energy generators experience reliability issues due to oxide formation and mechanical disintegration of discharger electrodes, leading to shifts in discharge frequency and potential service outages, exacerbated by changes in air conditions.
Innovation Solution
The generator design incorporates multiple dischargers with different breakdown voltages and shifted frequency spectrums, connected in parallel, to maintain cumulative spectral density and compensate for frequency shifts caused by electrode distance changes or air condition variations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a single discharger is used, then the device structure is simple, but the spectral density decreases over time due to frequency shifts caused by electrode disintegration
Solution Approach 1:
The discharger unit is divided into multiple independent dischargers (first discharger, second discharger, etc.) connected in parallel. Each discharger has its own electrodes and discharge gap, allowing them to operate independently. This segmentation ensures that if one discharger's spectral density decreases due to frequency shifts from electrode disintegration, other dischargers can compensate to maintain overall spectral density at the resonance frequency.
Solution Approach 2:
Different dischargers are designed with different breakdown voltages and different initial frequency spectrums. This parameter differentiation allows the dischargers to operate at different frequency ranges initially, and as they age and their frequencies shift, the overlapping spectrums ensure that at least one discharger maintains adequate spectral density at the resonance frequency of the transformer primary winding circuit.
2Reliability
If multiple dischargers with different breakdown voltages and overlapping frequency spectrums are used, then cumulative spectral density is maintained despite frequency shifts, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system utilizes the natural feedback mechanism where the transformer primary winding circuit's resonance frequency provides a reference that the multiple dischargers collectively maintain. As individual dischargers drift in frequency due to electrode disintegration, the overlapping spectrums of multiple dischargers ensure that the cumulative effect maintains adequate spectral density at the resonance frequency, creating a self-compensating system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs the discharger unit with multiple dischargers having overlapping frequency spectrums as a preventive measure against future frequency shifts. This prior cushioning approach ensures that before any single discharger's spectral density becomes insufficient due to electrode disintegration and frequency drift, the other dischargers with overlapping spectrums are already in position to compensate, preventing service outage before it occurs.
3Manufacturing precision
If electrode distance increases due to mechanical disintegration, then discharge frequency shifts away from resonance frequency, but using multiple dischargers with overlapping spectrums compensates for this shift
Solution Approach 1:
The discharger unit is divided into multiple independent dischargers (first discharger, second discharger, etc.) connected in parallel. Each discharger has its own electrodes and discharge gap, allowing them to operate independently. This segmentation ensures that if one discharger's spectral density decreases due to frequency shifts from electrode disintegration, other dischargers can compensate to maintain overall spectral density at the resonance frequency.
Solution Approach 2:
Different dischargers are designed with different breakdown voltages and different initial frequency spectrums. This parameter differentiation allows the dischargers to operate at different frequency ranges initially, and as they age and their frequencies shift, the overlapping spectrums ensure that at least one discharger maintains adequate spectral density at the resonance frequency of the transformer primary winding circuit.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the reliability and stability of electric energy generation by ensuring consistent spectral density across frequency shifts, thereby preventing device outages.
Implementation Method 1
a discharger connected in series to a primary winding of a transformer
Implementation Method 2
A process of the discharger electrodes disintegration is due to presence of plasma between the electrodes causing electric erosion disintegration
Implementation Method 3
primary winding of a transformer, which secondary high-voltage winding
Implementation Method 4
secondary high-voltage winding and a parallel connected capacitor form a resonant circuit, which with the use of a diode establishes a positive feedback
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AI summary
Invention relates to electric power engineering and power supply systems of different sectors of national economy: industrial, agricultural, defence, transport and amenity facilities. The invention improves generator operation reliability and consistency to produce electric energy. A generator for production of electric energy is designed with a possibility of connection to the starting electric energy source and disconnection from it, which output is connected to the energy storage capacitor and the discharger unit series-connected to the primary winding of the transformer, which secondary high voltage winding together with the parallel-connected capacitor form a resonant circuit establishing the positive feedback with the energy storage capacitor of the discharger, and the transformer tertiary winding feeds the load via a rectifier, wherein the discharger unit is executed as several dischargers connected in parallel, characterized by different values of breakdown voltage and by shifted relative to each other, but overlapping frequency spectra.