Relationship between the voltage distribution ratio and the post arc current in double-break vacuum circuit breakers

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 8 SPEC. ISS. PART 1, 2009, Pages 1438-1445

  Sugita, Masanori ^a   Igarashi, Tetsuo ^a   Kasuya, Hiroaki ^a   Okabe, Shigemitsu ^b   Matsui, Yoshihiko ^c   van Lanen, Ezra ^d   Yanabu, Satoru ^a  

^a TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY   (Japan)

^c Japan AE Power Systems Corporation   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Double break vacuum circuit breakers; Grading capacitors; Post arc current; Vacuum interrupters

Indexed keywords

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

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CAVITY RESONATORS; CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VACUUM; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 69249223471     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2015883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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