Online Condition Assessment of Interruption Chamber of Gas Circuit Breakers Using Arc Voltage Measurement

Asghar Bagherpoor; Sadegh  Rahimi-Pordanjani; Ali A. Razi-Kazemi; Kaveh  Niayesh

doi:10.1109/TPWRD.2016.2597302

Online Condition Assessment of Interruption Chamber of Gas Circuit Breakers Using Arc Voltage Measurement

Asghar Bagherpoor, Sadegh Rahimi-Pordanjani, Ali A. Razi-Kazemi, Kaveh Niayesh

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Abstract

As a key element of a power system, a circuit breaker (CB) requires regular maintenance. Intelligent online condition assessment is increasingly becoming a requirement for key items of power plants, including CBs. The interruption chamber, as the most critical part of the CBs, plays an important role in the proper operation of CBs. Online assessment of this part is difficult from a technical perspective due to the high noise level and presence of a transient recovery voltage. This paper proposes a set up for the online measurement of the CB arc voltage during trip/close operations. In addition, a method has been proposed to evaluate the remaining useful lifetime of the interruption chamber based on the measured arc voltage and current. The setup and the proposed approach are verified experimentally.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1776-1783
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRD.2016.2597302
Publication status	Published - 2 Aug 2017

Keywords

Online condition assessment
arc voltage
arc contact
nozzle ablation

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Online Condition Assessment of Interruption Chamber of Gas Circuit Breakers Using Arc Voltage Measurement

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