Design Homopolar Inductor Alternator for Capacitor Charging Power Supply Based on Voltage-Behind-Reactance Model

Homopolar inductor alternator (HIA) has obvious advantages to achieve fast charging and repetition frequency output, and it has been used in the capacitor charging power supply (CCPS) system. However, for the capacitor charging power supply with homopolar inductor alternator (HIA-CCPS), the influence on parameters of alternators and systems on charging has not been studied quantitatively. Also, there is still no proper method on how to combine these parameters with the alternator design for the existing HIA design methods. The application of voltage-behind-reactance (VBR) model in HIA-CCPS system greatly simplifies the analysis of parameters on the capacitor charging system. In this paper, based on the VBR-model, the influence of various parameters in the charging process on the performance of the charging system will be quantitatively studied, and according to the research results, the alternator design process based on the above analysis will be presented, at the same time, a prototype of HIA-CCPS system is designed to verify the above analysis.