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Breakdowns in the post-arc phase are affected by a combination effect of both plasma and metal vapor. The objective of this paper is to study the breakdown boundary as a function of plasma and metal vapor density. A fully kinetic PIC-MCC model was developed to study breakdowns in the post-arc phase. Relevant collisions were taken into consideration, and an external circuit was added to the model to...
A sheath recovery process dominants the initial stage of a dielectric recovery process after interrupting a vacuum arc current. The objective of this paper is to model a post-arc sheath recovery process by using PIC-MCC method. Second electrons, external circuit, and fundamental collisions between particles were taken into considerate in the model. The result shows that the amplitude of post-arc current...
The objective of this paper is to experimentally investigate the DC current switching characteristic of a combined DC circuit breaker. The DC circuit breaker, which is a combination of a DC switch and a fuse, has a significant advantage in full-range DC current switching. When a load current or an over-load current emerges, the DC load switch has the ability to clear the current. However, when a short-circuit...
Permanent magnetic actuators (PMAs) have been widely used in medium-voltage vacuum circuit breakers (VCBs) due to their high reliability and controllability. However, a conventional bistable PMA cannot be adopted in power equipment for the transmission voltage level such as 126 kV VCBs directly because of its low-velocity characteristics. The objective of this paper is to propose a multimagnetic circuit...
Anode activity is critical in a high-current interruption process of a vacuum interrupter. Under a high-current arc anode surface temperature may exceed melting point, thus an anode melting pool can form. Under such condition, an evaporation of metal vapor from an anode melting pool may play a role for a failure of the current interruption. The objective of this paper is to propose a model of fluid...
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