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DC Circuit Breakers: A Technology Development Status Survey

Zheng, Sheng·Kheirollahi, Reza·Pan, Jiuping·Xue, Linxiao·Wang, Jun·Lu, Fei
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DC circuit breakers (DCCBs) play a significant role in obtaining the reliability and stability of DC power systems. Selective and fast isolating of faults minimizes the power supply outages to end electricity users and protects the power converters implemented in the DC system. During the last decades, DCCBs have been deeply investigated in industry and academia. There has been impressive progress in terms of efficiency, response time, power-density, lifetime, and electrical operating ratings. Introducing wide bandgap (WBG) devices further has motivated researchers to propose more efficient and novel topologies. This paper provides a point of reference and a background review for DCCBs from novel aspects, fulfilling absent parts in the literature. The elaborated subjects include current commutation circuitry, DCCBs trip-curves developments, newly added functions to DCCBs, as well as marketing analysis. The advancements of DCCBs are surveyed and development needs are recognized. This paper aims to identify the future research needs of DCCBs for emerging DC power systems.

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Zheng, Sheng, Kheirollahi, Reza, Pan, Jiuping, Xue, Linxiao, Wang, Jun, Lu, Fei. 2021-10-27. DC Circuit Breakers: A Technology Development Status Survey. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsg.2021.3123538

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