1st Edition

Switching Phenomena in High-Voltage Circuit Breakers

By Kunio Nakanishi Copyright 1991
304 Pages
by CRC Press

304 Pages
by Routledge

Showing the relation of physics to circuit interruption technology, describes for engineers the switching phenomena, test procedures, and applications of modern, high-voltage circuit breakers, especially SF, gas-blast, and the vacuum types used in medium-voltage ranges. Applies the physical arc mode

Contributors, 1: OVERVIEW, 2: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN, 3: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CIRCUIT BREAKERS, 4: TESTS AND DIAGNOSTICS, Appendix Basic Thermodynamic Equations, Index

Biography

Kunio Nakanishi