Simulation of electric and thermal fields of high voltage interrupter vacuum chamber

Author

Mateev, Valentin ; Tanev, Rosen ; Marinova, Iliana

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Apparatus, Tech. Univ. of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

fYear

2014

fDate

29-31 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this study 3D model of electric field and thermal field distributions of high voltage vacuum chamber is developed. The coupled electric-thermal field problem is formulated and finite element method is applied to calculate the electric field and temperature distributions in vacuum chamber. The heat sources are obtained by electric field analysis. The electric arc discharge conductivity is nonlinearly related to the electric field intensity and arc temperature. The temperature of the interrupter contact system surface has been used to study the operational characteristics of the vacuum chamber.

Keywords

arcs (electric); electric fields; electrical conductivity; finite element analysis; vacuum interrupters; 3D model; arc temperature; coupled electric-thermal field problem; electric arc discharge conductivity; electric field analysis; electric field distributions; electric field intensity; finite element method; high voltage interrupter vacuum chamber; interrupter contact system surface; temperature distributions; thermal field distributions; Conductivity; Contacts; Electric fields; Finite element analysis; Interrupters; Mathematical model; Vacuum systems; Electrical arc discharge; coupled field analysis; electric field; finite element method; temperature field; vacuum interrupter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Apparatus and Technologies (SIELA), 2014 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bourgas

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5816-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIELA.2014.6871873

Filename

6871873