Review of technologies for current-limiting low-voltage circuit breakers

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1005-1010

  Brice, Charles W ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

BLOWOUT COILS; MAGNETIC FORCES; MOLDED CASE CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 0030245949     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.536858     Document Type: Article

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