MAXWELL ENERGY PRODUCTS WINS $4.1 MILLION CAPACITOR CONTRACT
Maxwell Energy Products has been awarded a $4.1 million contract from Los Alamos National Laboratory for the ATLAS program. The contract consists of the sale of more than 400 high voltage advanced technology capacitors for delivery over an 18 month period.
"We are very pleased with the Los Alamos decision," said Gregg McKee, president of Energy Products. "We have been developing the product for a period of time and during that process we competed with other capacitor manufacturers. The award, which represents one of the largest capacitor orders ever awarded for this type of application, is a clear indicator of the technical superiority of our products."
Added McKee, "As previously demonstrated, there are global commercial and governmental opportunities for Energy Products and it is our intent to leverage this win into additional opportunities."
ATLAS is a pulsed power facility designed to perform high energy-density experiments in support of nuclear stockpile stewardship and basic research programs. It is designed to be an international user facility, providing experimental opportunities to researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratory, AWE, and various academic institutions.
Maxwell Energy Products is a leader in pulsed power technologies, providing pulsed power based systems and components for a wide range of commercial applications and research and development for both commercial customers and the U.S. government. The Company's advanced technology solutions address diverse markets such as medical equipment and products, food processing and packaging.
MAXWELL ENERGY PRODUCTS WINS MAJOR CONTRACTS FORCAPACITORS TO BE USED IN DoE DARHT ACCELERATOR.
Maxwell Energy Products announced today that it has won two sole source contracts to supply 2690 each of its Model 35309 and 1396 each of its Model 35349 plastic case high voltage capacitors for use in the second phase of the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamics Test (DARHT) facility at Los Alamos. The capacitors will be integrated into modulators that power the induction electron accelerator and the electron injector.
The particular model of capacitor used in the Pulse Forming Network (PFN) within each modulator is based on a standard product line, TYPE PD/PM. While the basic "double-ended plastic case" design has been offered by Maxwell for many years, recent improvements to the dielectric design have resulted in increased life and reliability. These improvements allowed Maxwell to meet the critical reliability requirements of the large DARHT system.
Model 35309 is a 0.05 uF 100 kV rating in a 4.0 x 8.0 x 16.0 inch (102 x 203 x 406 mm) case. Model 35349 is rated at 0.073 uF 50 kV and is in a 2.3 x 5.9 x 10.7 inch (58 x 150 x 272 mm) case.
A list of standard ratings for Type PD/PM and other styles of high voltage capacitor are available on the company's website: http://www.gaep.com.
Figure 1 shows the DARHT facility and Figure 2 shows typical TYPE PD/PM capacitors.
Maxwell Energy Products has been awarded a $4.1 million contract from Los Alamos National Laboratory for the ATLAS program. The contract consists of the sale of more than 400 high voltage advanced technology capacitors for delivery over an 18 month period.
"We are very pleased with the Los Alamos decision," said Gregg McKee, president of Energy Products. "We have been developing the product for a period of time and during that process we competed with other capacitor manufacturers. The award, which represents one of the largest capacitor orders ever awarded for this type of application, is a clear indicator of the technical superiority of our products."
Added McKee, "As previously demonstrated, there are global commercial and governmental opportunities for Energy Products and it is our intent to leverage this win into additional opportunities."
ATLAS is a pulsed power facility designed to perform high energy-density experiments in support of nuclear stockpile stewardship and basic research programs. It is designed to be an international user facility, providing experimental opportunities to researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratory, AWE, and various academic institutions.
Maxwell Energy Products is a leader in pulsed power technologies, providing pulsed power based systems and components for a wide range of commercial applications and research and development for both commercial customers and the U.S. government. The Company's advanced technology solutions address diverse markets such as medical equipment and products, food processing and packaging.
MAXWELL ENERGY PRODUCTS WINS MAJOR CONTRACTS FORCAPACITORS TO BE USED IN DoE DARHT ACCELERATOR.
Maxwell Energy Products announced today that it has won two sole source contracts to supply 2690 each of its Model 35309 and 1396 each of its Model 35349 plastic case high voltage capacitors for use in the second phase of the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamics Test (DARHT) facility at Los Alamos. The capacitors will be integrated into modulators that power the induction electron accelerator and the electron injector.
The particular model of capacitor used in the Pulse Forming Network (PFN) within each modulator is based on a standard product line, TYPE PD/PM. While the basic "double-ended plastic case" design has been offered by Maxwell for many years, recent improvements to the dielectric design have resulted in increased life and reliability. These improvements allowed Maxwell to meet the critical reliability requirements of the large DARHT system.
Model 35309 is a 0.05 uF 100 kV rating in a 4.0 x 8.0 x 16.0 inch (102 x 203 x 406 mm) case. Model 35349 is rated at 0.073 uF 50 kV and is in a 2.3 x 5.9 x 10.7 inch (58 x 150 x 272 mm) case.
A list of standard ratings for Type PD/PM and other styles of high voltage capacitor are available on the company's website: http://www.gaep.com.
Figure 1 shows the DARHT facility and Figure 2 shows typical TYPE PD/PM capacitors.
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