About diagnosis of circuit breakers

M Andruşcă, M Adam, R Pantelimon… - 2013 8TH …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this paper was analyzed a medium voltage circuit breaker with oil which has the operating
… with higher free travel of air gap, respectively increases with lower free travel of air gap. …

Circuit breakers

JA Martinez-Velasco, M Popov - Power System Transients, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
… strength of the gap between the breaker contacts is not sufficient to withstand the TRV. …
development and introduction of air-blast circuit breakers, which used compressed air, not only to …

The influence of resistance switching on the design of high-voltage air-blast circuit-breakers

HE Cox, TW Wilcox - Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers-Part II …, 1944 - IET
… This can be brought about by limiting the electric strength of the breaker contact gaps. An
experimental method of determining the electric strength of the nozzles under …

Does an electronic circuit breaker need electrical contacts?

P Meckler, W Ho - Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Holm …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
circuit breakerscircuit breakers are discussed in detail based on specific test results and
applications. For high DC voltage applications conventional circuit breakers need large air gaps

Circuit breakers

W Rieder - Scientific American, 1971 - JSTOR
… The plasma column that forms be tween the contacts is created by ioniza tion of the surrounding
gas, which is normally air, an excellent insulator at room temperature. An air gap of one …

Investigation of the dielectric recovery in synthetic air in a high voltage circuit breaker

M Seeger, G Naidis, A Steffens… - Journal of Physics D …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
… 74 6771–7 [22] Aleksandrov NL, Bazelyan EM, Kochetov IV and Dyatko NA 1997 The
ionization kinetics and electric field in the leader channel in long air gaps J. Phys. D: Appl. …

Suppression of Leakage Flux in Magnetic Air Circuit Breakers

AP Strom - Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical …, 1958 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Since arc quenching in the magnetic air breakers depends on stretching the arc to … and
long air gaps. A typical example of such a magnet from a 150-DH-500 Westinghouse breaker is …

Some researches on current chopping in high-voltage circuit-breakers

AFB Young - Proceedings of the IEE-Part II: Power Engineering, 1953 - IET
… voltages across the shunt reactor or transformer, and the way in which such voltages can
be limited by restriking of the circuit-breaker gap is illustrated for both air-blast and oil-break'…

Improving interruption performance of mechanical circuit breakers by controlling pre‐current‐zero wave shape

T Schultz, B Hammerich, L Bort, CM Franck - High Voltage, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… In the presented case, a tapped inductor with adjustable air gap is selected to be able to
realise a variety of combinations regarding mentioned parameters. For a more compact and …

High-current interruption in vacuum circuit breakers

M Binnendijk, WFH Merck, RPP Smeets… - IEEE transactions on …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… a correlation between contact gap length and switching behavior of a vacuum circuit breaker.
A … , containing: a capacitor Cr (27.8 pF), coil L (1.27 mH), and air gap switch SG, with fan:, = …