• DocumentCode
    852610
  • Title

    Current chopping phenomena of medium voltage circuit breakers

  • Author

    Murano, M. ; Yanabu, S. ; Ohashi, H. ; Ishizuka, H. ; Okazaki, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
  • Volume
    96
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1977
  • Firstpage
    143
  • Lastpage
    149
  • Abstract
    The authors have investigated the relation between the circuit conditions and the chopping current values of various types of circuit breakers, including MOCB(Minimum Oil CB), VCB(Vacuum CB), ABCB (Air Blast CB) and GCB (SF6 Puffer CB). Excepting VCB, each breaker chopping current increases with increase of the parallel capacitance to the breaker, but it decreases when a series resistance is connected to this capacitance. Concerning to MOCB, ABCB and GCB, it was found that the phenomena just before current chopping quite resemble each other, while as for VCB, it differs from others completely. These were investigated throughly from experiments and theory.
  • Keywords
    Capacitance; Circuit breakers; Circuit testing; Cities and towns; Impedance; Inductors; Medium voltage; Petroleum; Surges; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power Apparatus and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9510
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-PAS.1977.32317
  • Filename
    1601919