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Every year study association Waldur organises a symposium on the field of electrical energy technology. This year’s symposium will be about ‘Pulsed Power’.

What is Pulsed Power?

Pulsed power is the term used to describe the science and technology of accumulating energy over a relatively long period of time and releasing it very quickly thus increasing the instantaneous power.

Steady accumulation of energy followed by its rapid release can result in the delivery of a larger amount of instantaneous power over a shorter period of time (although the total energy is the same). Energy is typically stored within electrostatic fields (capacitors), magnetic fields (inductors), as mechanical energy (using large flywheels connected to special purpose high current alternators), or as chemical energy (high-current lead-acid batteries, or explosives). By releasing the stored energy over a very short interval, a huge amount of peak power can be delivered to a load. For example, if one joule of energy is stored within a capacitor and then evenly released to a load over one second, the peak power delivered to the load would only be 1 watt. However, if all of the stored energy was released within one microsecond, the peak power would be one megawatt, a million times greater. Examples where pulsed power technology is applied include food preservation, particle accelerators, ultra strong magnetic fields, defence applications, and synthetic testing of high-voltage equipment.

Symposium

The Pulsed Power Symposium will be held on the 30th of May in the Dorgelozaal in the Traverse building at the Technical University of Eindhoven. Dr. ing. Guus Pemen will be the chairman of the day. At the symposium, the concept of Pulsed Power and a number of applications will be discussed. A detailed day program can be found at the program page.

The presentations can be downloaded at the program page.