Capacitance switching with vacuum circuit breakers - a comparative evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 1088-1095

  Glinkowski, Mietek ^a   Greenwood, Allan ^a   Hill, John ^a   Mauro, Ralph ^b   Varneckes, Vidmantas ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Consolidated Edison Co of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL METHODS;

CAPACITANCE SWITCHING; CURRENT INTERRUPTION; REIGNITIONS; VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKERS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 0026188762     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: 19374208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.85852     Document Type: Article

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