Electrical stresses on circuit-breaker voltage grading capacitors caused by unequal voltage sharing during switching operations

European Transactions on Electrical Power

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 174-179

  Coventry, Paul ^a   Runde, Magne ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL GRID   (United Kingdom)

^b SINTEF ENERGY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

circuit breakers; dielectric breakdown; failure analysis; power capacitors; SF6; switching transients

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT-BREAKERS; DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWNS; POWER CAPACITORS; SF6; SWITCHING TRANSIENTS;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRADING; POLES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SWITCHING; TRANSIENTS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 79551486282     PISSN: 1430144X     EISSN: 15463109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etep.426     Document Type: Article

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