Vacuum Circuit Breaker for Aviation Variable Frequency Power System: Theory and Application of Arc in Electrical Apparatus (Power Systems)

"This book introduces the concepts of more electric aircraft and aviation electrical appliances, as well as the aviation experimental platform of vacuum switches, the interruption characteristics, frequency characteristics and post-arc breakdown characteristics of intermediate frequency vacuum switches, etc. It is the first monograph on protection electrical appliances, vacuum interrupter in aviation variable frequency power system. This book includes a lot of experimental process and chart analysis for readers to understand and provides references for practical engineering problems. This book could be used as references for engineers and technicians working on electric power systems in aircrafts."-- Provided by publisher Preface Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 More/All-Electric Aircraft and Aviation Power Systems 1.1.1 More/All-Electric Aircraft 1.1.2 Aviation Power System 1.1.3 The Technical Difficulties in the New Aviation Power System 1.2 Electrical Apparatus for Aviation Power System 1.2.1 Electrical Apparatus and Circuit Breakers 1.2.2 Aviation Electrical Apparatus 1.3 Research Status of Circuit Breaker in Aviation Power System 1.3.1 Research Status of Aviation Circuit Breakers 1.3.2 Research Status of Vacuum Circuit Breaker 1.4 The Contents of This Book References 2 Experiment and Simulation Platform of Variable Frequency Power System 2.1 Experiment Platform 2.1.1 Power Circuit 2.1.2 Control System 2.2 AMF Excitation System 2.2.1 Structure 2.2.2 Modeling and Design 2.2.3 Results and Discussion 2.3 Simulation Platform References 3 Contacts Characteristics of Variable Frequency Vacuum Arc 3.1 Contacts for the VF Experiment 3.2 Vacuum Arc Influenced by Diameter of Contact 3.3 Vacuum Arc Influenced by Material of Contact 3.3.1 Arc Characteristics in Cu and Cucr50 Contacts 3.3.2 Arc Characteristics in Cu-W-WC and CuCr50 Contacts 3.4 Analysis of Interruption Characteristics in Different Contacts References 4 Frequency Characteristics of Variable Frequency Vacuum Arc 4.1 The Effect of Frequency on Vacuum Arc in AMF Contact 4.1.1 Interruption-Frequency Characteristics in AMF 4.1.2 Voltage-Frequency Characteristics in AMF 4.1.3 Evolution of IF Vacuum Arc in AMF 4.2 The Effect of Frequency on Vacuum Arc in Butt Contact 4.3 Analysis of Arc Burning Characteristics of VF Vacuum Arc 4.3.1 Stabilization by AMF 4.3.2 Bennet Pinch Model 4.3.3 Pressure Gradient of the AMPP 4.4 Reasons for the Drop-in Breaking Capacity of VF VCB References 5 Post-arc Breakdown in Variable Frequency Vacuum Arc 5.1 Voltage Spike and Noise 5.1.1 Arc Appearance Related to Voltage Spike and Noise 5.1.2 Reasons for the Voltage Spike and Noise 5.2 Post-arc Breakdown of VF Vacuum Arc 5.3 Analysis of Post-arc Breakdown 5.3.1 Position of Post-arc Breakdown 5.3.2 Macroscopic Particles References Correction to: Vacuum Circuit Breaker for Aviation Variable Frequency Power System Correction to: Y. Jiang and Q. Li, Vacuum Circuit Breaker for Aviation Variable Frequency Power System, Power Systems https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4781-6