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Hot Gas Analysis of Circuit Breakers By Combining Partial Characteristic Method with Net Emission Coefficient  

Park, Sang-Hun (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
Bae, Chae-Yoon (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
Jung, Hyun-Kyo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
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KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems / v.3B, no.3, 2003 , pp. 115-121 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a radiation model, which considers radiation transport as an important component in hot gas analysis. This radiation model is derived from combining the method of partial characteristics (MPC) with net emission coefficient (NEC), and it covers the drawbacks of existing models. Subsequently, using this proposed model, the arc-flow interaction in an arcing chamber can be efficiently computed. The arc is represented as an energy source term composed of ohmic heating and the radiation transport in the energy conservation equation. Ohmic heating term was computed by the electric field analysis within the conducting plasma region. Radiation transport was calculated by the proposed radiation model. Also, in this paper, radiation models were introduced and applied to the gas circuit breaker (GCB) model. Through simulation results, the efficiency of the proposed model was confirmed.
Keywords
arc; circuit breaker; Euler equation; method of partial characteristics (MPC); net emission coefficient (NEC); radiation transport;
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