The features of 0.4 kV motor interruption by a vacuum contactor with different contact materials

Author

Chaly, Alexy M. ; Chalaya, Alevtina T. ; Poluyanova, Irina N. ; Poluyanov, Victor N.

Author_Institution

Tavrida Electr. Ltd., Sevastopol, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

17-21 Aug 1998

Firstpage

435

Abstract

Computer aided modelling has been used to simulate current chopping behaviour at different current levels. This model is based on the known are life time of a DC current. The appropriate experimental research has been carried out for a batch of 35 industrial VI with CuCr contacts. The obtained dependencies of the average arc life time VC current show a certain technological scatter that has been taken into account in further chopping current simulations. The developed software has been used to analyze features of 0.4 kV motor interruptions by low voltage vacuum contactor with CuCr and AgWC contacts (low-surge contact material). The obtained results have been generalized in “safe operation regions” that allow us to consider the necessity of the surge suppression when low voltage vacuum contactors are applied to motor control

Keywords

circuit-breaking arcs; electric machine analysis computing; machine theory; motor protection; overvoltage protection; surge protection; vacuum contactors; vacuum interrupters; 0.4 kV; LV vacuum contactor; average arc life time; computer simulation; contact materials; current chopping behaviour; low-surge contact material; motor interruption; safe operation regions; surge suppression; Circuit testing; Computer simulation; Dielectrics and electrical insulation; Equations; Ignition; Materials testing; Production; Shape; Surges; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, 1998. Proceedings ISDEIV. XVIIIth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Eindhoven

ISSN

1093-2941

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3953-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEIV.1998.738627

Filename

738627