GUO Liping, WANG Dezhong. Evaluating Internal Pressure of Vacuum Interrupters with X-ray Measurement Method[J]. High voltageapparatus, 2015, 51(1): 92-97.
This paper focuses on vacuum interrupters which are widely applied in medium-voltage switchgears.The relationship between X-ray absorption ratio and internal pressure of a vacuum interrupter is analyzed in order to obtain a new method for evaluating the internal pressure by X-ray absorption ratio.Experimental result indicates that even though the internal pressure is lower than 10-2Pa
the vacuum interrupter is possible to pass the power frequency voltage test
however the initial average electric field intensity of X-ray radiation gets lower significantly.Therefore
combining with power frequency voltage test
X-ray measurement method can be used to find out those vacuum interrupters that have passed power frequency voltage test but the internal pressure is lower than 10-2Pa.