Abstract
In the DC grid, fault current rises very fast due to low impedance. Fast DC circuit breakers are needed to isolate faults and avoid a collapse of the common DC grid voltage. Based on the forced current zero (CZ) technology, the vacuum interrupter (VI) equipped with fast electromagnetic repulsion mechanism is a very promising solution of fast DC interruption. The experimental research on the DC interruption characteristics of a VI, namely by examining the post-arc current (PAC) is presented in this paper. The dependence of the interruption capability on the PAC is analysed. What’s more, the failure modes of the VI under various experiment conditions are summarized. A former finding was that not all the arcing history which starts from the electrodes separating to the CZ has influence on the PAC but only a very short duration of several microseconds right before the CZ takes effects. New experiment results are added in this paper to support the former finding. Another former finding was that a longer electrode separation will bring about higher PAC. In this paper, both the influence of the arcing memory time and the electrodes separation are owed to a higher residual plasma density, which is verified by a model for calculating the residual plasma density and the continuous transient model (CTM) for calculating PAC.
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