Unfortunately, this mechanism can be dificult to control, and in the worst case, a run-away process can result, causing the destruction of the entire capacitor in short order. To avoid this, KYOCERA AVX developed a controlled self-healing process in 1974 based on the segmentation of overall capacitance into elementary cells protected by fuse gates.
Catastrophic failures and associated explosions or fires are unacceptable. Just as importantly, service lifetime and predictability for optimizing up-time are critical to the product's success. Film capacitors with controlled self-healing are the ideal solution to these challenges and can be obtained in various sizes and technical specifications.
From the typical waveform, it can be seen that during the self-healing process, the voltage across the specimen remains basically constant due to the presence of the shunt capacitor, and the duration of the self-healing current is about 1–2 μs. Based on the experimental waveform and Eq. (1), the self-healing energy E sh can be calculated.
In high voltage, high energy applications such as electric trains and solar power grids, the safety and reliability of capacitors are paramount. Catastrophic failures and associated explosions or fires are unacceptable. Just as importantly, service lifetime and predictability for optimizing up-time are critical to the product's success.
The self-healing characteristics of metallized film capacitors under DC voltage have been studied extensively by scholars.
However, not all types of SH damage lead to catastrophic failure of the capacitor. Thus, finding the threshold of SH that has little impact on the reliability of the capacitor is important. This article classifies SH events based on their SH energy, ranging from safe to risky, and establishes thresholds for safe SH.
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