Investigation of the dielectric recovery in synthetic air in a high voltage circuit breaker

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1795-1804

  Seeger, M ^a   Naidis, G ^b   Steffens, A ^a   Nordborg, H ^a   Claessens, M ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; PRESSURE EFFECTS; QUENCHING;

DIELECTRIC RECOVERY; DIELECTRIC STRENGTH; SYNTHETIC AIR; TEMPERATURE DECAY;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 21144446484     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/38/11/020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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