Statistical property of the breakdown of vacuum circuit breakers and its influence on the surge generation in capacitive and reactive current interruption

IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems

Volumn PAS-98, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 232-238

  Murai, Y ^a   Toya, H ^a   Nitta, T ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS - RECLOSING; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; STATISTICAL METHODS - APPLICATIONS;

VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

ELECTRIC ARCS, CIRCUIT BREAKING;

EID: 0018294027     PISSN: 00189510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAS.1979.319523     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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