Pyro-breaker is a fast-responding and high-reliable explosive-driven circuit breaker,which has been applied in several quench protection systems,such as International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and Experimenta...Pyro-breaker is a fast-responding and high-reliable explosive-driven circuit breaker,which has been applied in several quench protection systems,such as International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak.As an indispensable back-up switch,Pyro-breaker guarantees the reliability and safety of the system and avoids tremendous loss when quench happens.Electrical contact,a crucial part of an electrical device greatly determines the steady current capacity of a Pyro-breaker.However,due to the complexity of the model and the deficiency knowledge of the microstate of contact areas,an accurate calculation for contact resistance is difficult to acquire.A study of electrical contact in the design of a Pyro-breaker has been presented in this paper.An engineering calculation method is verified with experiments.Parameters are fitted for the presented model,which will be a significant theoretical basis for the future designing.展开更多
文摘Pyro-breaker is a fast-responding and high-reliable explosive-driven circuit breaker,which has been applied in several quench protection systems,such as International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak.As an indispensable back-up switch,Pyro-breaker guarantees the reliability and safety of the system and avoids tremendous loss when quench happens.Electrical contact,a crucial part of an electrical device greatly determines the steady current capacity of a Pyro-breaker.However,due to the complexity of the model and the deficiency knowledge of the microstate of contact areas,an accurate calculation for contact resistance is difficult to acquire.A study of electrical contact in the design of a Pyro-breaker has been presented in this paper.An engineering calculation method is verified with experiments.Parameters are fitted for the presented model,which will be a significant theoretical basis for the future designing.
