• DocumentCode
    1455721
  • Title

    Capacitor switching phenomena

  • Author

    Van Sickle, R. C. ; Zaborszky, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Westinghouse Electric Corporation, East Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • Volume
    71
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1952
  • Firstpage
    126
  • Lastpage
    126
  • Abstract
    The switching of capacitors differs from other switching by causing relatively large surge currents and possibly overvoltages. The performance of circuit breakers in this service has been found by recent experiments to depend on the power supply system as well as on the size of the capacitor banks. When circuit breakers open with no delayed restriking of the arc, they avoid the possibility of causing undesirably high current and voltage surges.
  • Keywords
    Capacitors; Circuit breakers; Dielectric breakdown; Impedance; Surges; Switches; Transient analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electrical Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0095-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/EE.1952.6437939
  • Filename
    6437939
    • Link To Document
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