The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B (대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B)

The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (대한전기학회)
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Investigation of Small Current Interruption Performance for New Type of Interrupting Chamber in SF$_{6}$ Gas Circuit Breaker

신차단방식 SF$_{6}$ 가스 차단기의 소전류 차단성능 연구

  • Published : 2005.11.01
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Abstract

This paper presents computer simulation results for developing new type of SF$_{6}$ Circuit Breaker in terms of cold gas flow after small current interruption. This cold gas flows down a nozzle into the chamber of a circuit breaker. There are many difficult problems in analyzing the gas flow due to complex geometry, moving boundary, shock wave and so on. When predicting the dielectric capability of a gas circuit breaker after interruption, the gas pressure and density distributions due to the cold gas must be considered in addition to the electrical field imposed across the gas. A self-coded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program is used for the simulation of cold gas flow in order to evaluate the electrical field characteristic across open contacts and transient characteristics of insulations after small current interruption.

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