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Design and reliability analysis of high power DC thyristor breaker

  • J. L. Wen
  • , P. Fu
  • , G. F. Tang
  • , Z. Z. Liu
  • State Grid Corporation of China
  • CAS - Institute of Plasma Physics

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Abstract

As a new type of circuit interrupter, DC thyristor breaker is very suit for high power DC system, such as subway, poloidal field power supply system of TOKAMAK (nuclear fusion experiment device), in which the transfer principle and force commutation technology was applied. In this paper, firstly, design of high power DC thyristor breaker has been finished, including main circuit design, snubber circuit design, commutation circuit optimize design, charger circuit design. Secondly, the reliability analysis of high power DC thyristor breaker has been presented, such as turn-off reliability analysis, turn-on reliability analysis, on-state and off-state reliability analysis. In these design and reliability analysis, some important conclusion have been derived, especially such as optimize design formulation of commutation circuit, the influences of distribution resistance in commutated circuit, the influence of stray inductance and their dispersivity in parallel connection thyristor branches for turn-off reliability, the influences of snubber circuit design for turn-on reliability, onstate and off-state reliability and so on. At last, we finished development and experiment of a bi-directional DC thyristor breaker for the poloidal field power supply system in EAST Super-conductive TOKAMAK Experiment result validated the correctness of the work above.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 International Conference on Power System Technology, POWERCON2006
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)1424401119, 9781424401116
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 International Conference on Power System Technology, POWERCON2006 - Chongqing, China
Duration: 22 Oct 200626 Oct 2006

Publication series

Name2006 International Conference on Power System Technology, POWERCON2006

Conference

Conference2006 International Conference on Power System Technology, POWERCON2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChongqing
Period22/10/0626/10/06

Keywords

  • Commutation circuits
  • DC thyristor breaker
  • Force commutation technology
  • Parameters optimize
  • Reliability analysis
  • Transfer principle

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