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Vacuum interrupter

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Vacuum Circuit Breaker Closing Time Key Moments Detection via Vibration Monitoring: A Run-to-Failure Study

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

Circuit breakers (CBs) play an important role in modern society because they make the power transmission and distribution systems reliable and resilient. Therefore, it is important to maintain their reliability and to monitor their operation. A key to ensu ...

2022

Breakerless Protection for Voltage Source Converter-Based Marine DC Power Supply Systems

Drazen Dujic, Seongil Kim

DC power supply systems utilising voltage source converters offer several advantages compared with their counterparts in marine low-voltage DC power distribution networks. In case of a two-level voltage source converter fed by a synchronous generator which ...

IEEE2021

Vacuum circuit breaker modelling for the assessment of transient recovery voltages: Application to various network configurations

Mario Paolone, Carlo Alberto Nucci

Vacuum circuit breakers (VCBs) are widely used for medium voltage applications when low maintenance, long operating life, and large number of allowable switching cycles are required. The accurate estimation of the transient recovery voltages (TRVs) associa ...

Elsevier2018

VHDL-AMS Virtual Prototyping of a Generator Circuit Breaker Ablation Monitoring System

Alain Vachoux, Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan, Yannick Maret

Generator Circuit Breakers (GCBs) are commonly used in electrical power generation systems to protect key equipment such as transformers and generators from damage due to overload or short-circuit. However the interruption and feeding of high currents lead ...

IEEE Conference Press2015

Measurements and modelling of residual stresses during quenching of thick heat treatable aluminium components in relation to their precipitation state

Nicolas Paul Henry Chobaut

In the fabrication of heat treatable aluminium parts, solutionising and quenching are key steps in order to obtain the required mechanical characteristics. Fast quenching is necessary to avoid coarse precipitation as this one reduces the mechanical propert ...

EPFL2015

Modular DC/DC Converter for DC Distribution and Collection Networks

Stephan Kenzelmann

A major change in the electrical transmission and distribution system is taking place in Europe at the moment. The shift from a centralised energy production to a distributed generation profoundly changes the behaviour of the grid. Environmental or social ...

EPFL2012

A Versatile DC-DC Converter for Energy Collection and Distribution using the Modular Multilevel Converter

Drazen Dujic, Alfred Rufer, Michail Vasiladiotis, Stephan Kenzelmann

The drawbacks of conventional Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) are described in terms of short-circuits. The configuration of MMC-transformer-MMC proves to handle short-circuits at the input and output without the need for additional DC or AC circuit br ...

Ieee2011

A DC Hybrid Circuit Breaker With Ultra-Fast Contact Opening and Integrated Gate-Commutated Thyristors (IGCTs)

Alfred Rufer

Air-magnetic circuit breakers are widely used for short-circuit protection in dc electric railways or industrial plants. The well-known drawbacks of these breakers are mainly a slow breaking action, a short lifetime, and high maintenance costs due to the d ...

2006

New hybrid circuit breaker/current limiter with serial and parallel commutation assistance

This paper presents a new hybrid circuit breaker topology based on the use of serial and parallel semiconductors that allows to increase the supply voltage and default current with no arc, and to benefit from a current limitation function. A concrete marin ...

2004

New hybrid circuit breaker/current limiter with serial and parallel commutation assistance

2004