Abstract
High-voltage (HV) circuit breakers are an indispensable piece of equipment in the power system which perform several functions to make, carry, and break a variety of the AC currents expected in operating and protecting the grid. For instance, a circuit breaker (CB) must cope with the following types of normal current carrying stresses under normal conditions:
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Load currents flowing through overhead lines, cables, transformers, generators, etc.
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Capacitive currents related to unloaded overhead lines, cables, or shunt capacitor banks
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Small inductive currents related to shunt reactors or unloaded transformers
Denis Dufournet has retired.
Hubert Mercure has retired.
Russ Yeckley has retired.
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Wilson, H., Dufournet, D., Mercure, H., Yeckley, R. (2019). History of Circuit Breakers. In: Ito, H. (eds) Switching Equipment. CIGRE Green Books. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72538-3_5
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