Interruption characteristics of double-break vacuum circuit breakers

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1065-1072

  Ide, Naotaka ^a   Tanaka, Osamu ^a   Yanabu, Satoru ^a   Kaneko, Shuhei ^b   Okabe, Shigemitsu ^b   Matsui, Yoshihiko ^c  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY   (Japan)

^c Japan AE Power Systems Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Double break; Grading capacitors; Post arc current; Vacuum circuit breakers; Vacuum interrupters; Voltage distribution ratio

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAVITY RESONATORS; CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VACUUM; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

AND RECOVERY; AXIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; CIRCUIT BREAKERS; DOUBLE-BREAK; GRADING CAPACITORS; POST ARC CURRENT; POST-ARC CURRENTS; SPIRAL CONTACTS; VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKER; VACUUM CIRCUIT BREAKERS; VACUUM INTERRUPTERS; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION RATIO;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 49449100279     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2008.4591229     Document Type: Article

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