DC circuit breaker is the key equipment of DC traction power supply system in Rail Transit. In the current DC traction power supply system
the air type DC circuit breaker is predominate
which has such problems in the switching period as ablation of metal contact and arc extinguishing grid as well as slow breaking speed. In view of above problems
a kind of asymmetrical bridge type hybrid DC circuit breaker featuring in fast switching
bi-directional interruption and good economic performance is proposed. First
the working principle of the topology is analyzed
and then the influence of the parameters of the key parts of the circuit breaker on the switching process is analyzed. The low voltage physical prototype of the DC circuit breaker and dynamic simulation test platform are developed based on the technical idea
and the switching test of the circuit breaker is performed. The result shows that the asymmetrical bridge DC circuit breaker can achieve fast switching of fault current of the system within 3 ms