Turn-Off Current and TEM Field Based on Distributed Capacitance Model of Multiple Coils in Helicopter Transient Electromagnetic System

Abstract

For compensating the primary field coupling from the transmitting coil and the sensing coil, the bucking coil is often used to achieve pure secondary field for the helicopter transient electromagnetic (HTEM) system. Traditionally, the distributed capacitance of the bucking coil and the transmitting coil is ignored and pay few attentions to study it. In fact, it has very important influence on the turn-off current of the transmitter and the transient electromagnetic (TEM) field of the system. In this paper, a novel distributed capacitance model of the HTEM coils is theoretically established at the first time, its effects on the turn-off current and the TEM field are analyzed in detail. It finds that the turn-off current in the transmitting coil and the bucking coil are not equal caused by the distributed capacitance although they are connected in series. The field experiments are completed and proved that the measured TEM fields agree very well with the simulated results based on the distributed capacitance model. This is very helpful to optimize the early-time TEM field and promote the shallow TEM data interpretation capability for the HTEM surveying.