Abstract:The aging of secondary circuit DC cable will seriously affect the safe operation of substation. The artificial accelerated aging of PVC insulation material of the cable is carried out, after different temperatures and aging time, the aging samples are analyzed by thermal weightlessness and Fourier infrared spectroscopy to explore its aging characteristics under different conditions. The results show that in two stages of PVC thermal weightlessness, when the aging temperatures are the same, prolonging the aging time will increase the loss of PVC resin in the first stage of thermal weightlessness and reduce the residue, especially when the aging temperature is 120 °C or 130 °C, this kind of change trend is more obvious. The images of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) confirm that increasing thermal aging temperature and prolonging thermal aging time will lead to an increase in functional groups such as methyl, methylene, hydroxyl and carboncarbon double bonds in PVC cables, and the trend of increase is more obvious especially when the aging temperature is 120 °C and above, and the trend is accelerated with the prolongation of aging time. Therefore, when the temperature reaches 120 °C, the PVC insulation material of secondary circuit DC cable will be in accelerated aging trend.