Interaction of a vacuum arc with an SF6 arc in a hybrid circuit breaker during high-current interruption

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4 II, 2007, Pages 933-938

  Smeets, René Peter Paul ^a   Kertész, Viktor ^a   Dufournet, Denis ^b   Penache, Dan ^b   Schlaug, Martin ^b  

^a KEMA   (Netherlands)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

Arc modeling; Circuit analysis; High frequency measurement; High voltage techniques; Hybrid circuit breaker; SF6 interrupter; Short circuit current; Testing; Vacuum interrupter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

ARC MODELING; HIGH-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; HIGH-VOLTAGE TECNIQUES; HYBRID CIRCUIT BREAKER; VACUUM INTERRUPTER;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 34548270457     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.896919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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