Electric power switches |
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| Authors: | Greenwood AN Stokes AD |
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| Institution: | Dept. of Electr. Power Eng., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY; |
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| Abstract: | A review is given of the physics and engineering behavior of arcs in vacuum and axial gas blast under the conditions found in high-voltage circuit breakers. The topics included are: the zero energy switch; current limiting switches; arc control; the gas-blast circuit breakers; the low-current gas-blast arc; arcing with ablation; interruption dynamics; arc modeling; vacuum as a switching element; the vacuum arc; the constricted arc; and the properties of SF6 |
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