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A New Method to Evaluate the Short-Time Withstand Current for Air Circuit Breaker

Honggang XIANG, Degui CHEN, Xingwen LI, Weixiong TONG

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Short-time withstand current is one of the crucial nominal parameters in air circuit breaker. A numerical method to evaluate the short-time withstand current is proposed. Cylindrical current carrying bridge is introduced to describe the contact spot between movable and fixed contacts. Taking into account the action of ferromagnetic splitter plates, the variation of the conductor properties with temperature and the variation of contact spot radius with the electro-dynamic repulsion force, a transient finite element calculation model is developed by coupling the electromagnetic field and thermal field. The loaded short circuit current is considered as the short-time withstand current once the highest temperature is near to the melting point of the contact material. It demonstrates that the method is useful to evaluate the performance of the air circuit breaker.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E91-C No.8 pp.1292-1298
Publication Date
2008/08/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1093/ietele/e91-c.8.1292
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Development of Electromechanical Devices(Selected Papers from IS-EMD2007))
Category
Contactors & Circuit Breakers

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