The restrike of vacuum circuit breaker during the breaking process causes overvoltage and intensifies insulation deterioration high-voltage equipment. To solve this problem, aging test method characteristics are researched. A withstand voltage platform 40.5-kV was established to obtain effects contact spacing loop inrush currents on number restrike, wavefront steepness breakdown voltage, durati...

The switching behavior of vacuum switches (VS) is different to that of other circuit breakers. There are several effects which have to be taken into account, for example the current chopping, the dielectric strength of vacuum gap, the arc voltage, the quenching capability of high frequency currents, virtual current chopping and prestrikes. In some earlier investigations the characteristics of v...

The occurrence of ferroresonance oscillations of high voltage inductive (electromagnetic) voltage transformers (VT) has been recorded and reported in a number of papers and reports. Because of its non-linear characteristic, inductive voltage transformer has the possibility of causing ferroresonance with capacitances present in the transmission network, if initiated by a transient occurrence suc...

The fault current development in a circuit breaker during a pole-to-ground fault is analyzed for a generic multiterminal HVDC system based on Voltage Source Converters. The paper aims to contribute to the current discussion of which requirements on breaking time and peak current HVDC circuit breakers need to fulfill in such networks either based on OHLs or cables. Therefore, the fault current i...

The automated circuit breaker diagnostic system described in this paper is an extension of the widely used portable circuit breaker testing device concept. The testing devices can be connected to the circuit breaker’s control circuit to record analog and digital signals. The automated system consists of a signal processing module and an expert system module. The two modules process the voltage ...

Nowadays, the electric connection circuits of power plants (based on fossil fuels as well as renewable sources) entail generator circuit-breakers (GCBs) at the generator terminals, since the presence of that electric equipment offers many advantages related to the sustainability of a power plant. In an alternating current (a.c.) circuit the interruption of a short circuit is performed by the ci...

How can the large power needs of future electric ships for propulsion, radar, and weapons systems be met given the prohibitive size and weight of the required number of standard 60 Hz AC generators and transformers? A solution may lie in a rugged, efficient, and compact solid-state, 10-20 kV Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) circuit breaker (Figure 1). In this paper, Diversified Technologies, Inc. will ...