A Bidirectional Efficient Circuit Breaker with Automatic and Controllable Shutoff Functions for DC Distribution Network

Compared with the solid-state circuit breakers based on IGBT and MOSFET, circuit breakers based on thyristor have higher capacity and lower cost, which have been extensively studied. However, the existing circuit breakers based on thyristor cannot achieve fast and reliable shutoff of the fault curre...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) 2023-08, Vol.70 (8), p.1-11
Main Authors: Diao, Xiaoguang, Liu, Fei, Zhuang, Yizhan, Pan, Shangzhi, Zha, Xiaoming
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Circuit breakers
Circuit faults
Circuit reliability
Circuits
Controllability
DC circuit breaker
DC distribution network
Fault currents
Inductance
Insulated gate bipolar transistors
Integrated circuit reliability
power system protection
Semiconductor devices
Thyristors
Topology
Voltage
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Summary:Compared with the solid-state circuit breakers based on IGBT and MOSFET, circuit breakers based on thyristor have higher capacity and lower cost, which have been extensively studied. However, the existing circuit breakers based on thyristor cannot achieve fast and reliable shutoff of the fault current. Therefore, a novel efficient bidirectional circuit breaker is proposed in this paper, which has the functions of automatic and controllable shutoff. In any current direction, only one thyristor is conductive, which eliminates the unnecessary power losses. The automatic shutoff function can cut off the fault current independently without detection delay. The controllable shutoff function can isolate the fault reliably without being affected by the line inductance. The proposed topology integrates the advantages of high efficiency, fast reaction and high reliability. Although the existing bidirectional circuit breakers based on thyristor may have one of these advantages, no circuit breaker integrates all of them. Finally, the proposed circuit breaker is verified through simulation and experiment of 1.2kW.
ISSN:0278-0046
1557-9948
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2023.3239873