Investigation of Impulse Aging of Energy-Absorption Elements for Hybrid DC Circuit Breakers
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Abstract
The state of the energy-absorption branch MOV in the hybrid DC circuit breaker (DCCB) has a very important impact on the short fault breaking operation of the circuit breaker. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the state of the MOV, which is also called the “sleep component”. Due to DCCB being placed indoors, the aging is mainly caused by short-circuit impulse current. Therefore, this paper mainly focuses on the study of the short-circuit impulse aging characteristics of the energy-absorption branch MOV. The dynamic simulation system of a hybrid DCCB was built to investigate the impulse of short-circuit current on the MOV of the energy-absorption branch during the circuit breaking process. Then, an accelerated impulse aging test platform was built and the accelerated impulse aging tests of the MOV were conducted. The aging characteristics of the MOV were analyzed in detail and detailed analysis was conducted of the macroscopic parameters and microstructure changes. The results indicate that the nonlinear coefficient α could be emphasized as a basis for judging the “sleeping” component states and aging degree of the hybrid DC circuit breaker, and can be expected to be applicable to MOV condition monitoring of BCCB in the future.
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OpenAlex topics: HVDC Systems and Fault Protection · High voltage insulation and dielectric phenomena · Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
School of Instrument Science and Techonology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Funding
Technology Innovation Leading Program of Shaanxi · Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province
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