裂变电离室脉冲前置放大器设计

Design of Fission Chamber Pulse Pre-amplifier

  • 摘要: 裂变电离室安装在堆内测量孔道中,通过无机电缆和有机电缆将信号送出,可实现反应堆启动至满功率过程堆内中子通量监测。针对脉冲电离室的输出信号测量需求,设计了一款裂变电离室用全差分脉冲前置放大器,主要包括两路电荷灵敏环及差分电路。电荷灵敏环以低噪声场效应管作输入放大级,以共基极电路作为次级放大级,实现了信号放大。差分电路采用高共模抑制比的运算放大器芯片,克服了前级电缆引入的干扰和噪声的影响。对该前置放大器参数进行理论计算和实验验证。结果表明,通过10 m无机电缆和30 m长有机电缆连接裂变电离室,前放输出信号上升时间小于200 ns,噪声均方值为13.3 mV,信噪比为30∶1,基本满足堆内中子通量测量的要求。

     

    Abstract: Fission chambers are installed in the measurement channels within the reactor and the signals are transmitted via inorganic and organic cables. They can be used for monitoring the neutron flux of the reactor from startup to full power operation. Aiming at the measurement requirements of the output signal of the pulse ionization chamber, a fully differential pulse preamplifier for a fission chamber is designed. It mainly consists of two charge sensitive loops and a differential circuit stages. The charge sensitive loop uses a low noise field effect transistor as the input stage and a common base circuit as the secondary stage to achieve signal amplification. The differential circuit uses a high common-mode rejection ratio operational amplifier chip to overcome the interference and noise introduced by the front-end cable. The results show that when the fission chamber and preamplifier is connected by 10 m rigid cables and 30 m long flexible cables, the rise time of the output signal is less than 200 ns, the mean square value of noise is 13.3 mV, and the SNR is 30:1. The circuit performance basically meets the requirements of in-reactor neutron flux measurement.

     

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