This document provides information about an electrical circuit breaker project conducted by 4th year electrical engineering students at Benha University in Egypt. It lists the names and student numbers of 4 students involved in the project, with student numbers ranging from 73 to 138. The rest of the document discusses the basic working principles of electrical circuit breakers, including their components, operating mechanisms, types according to various classification schemes, and arc quenching technologies.
Every power supply depends upon a reliable infeed of electricity. Air circuit breakers reliably protect electrical installations against damage or fire as a result of short circuits, ground faults, or overload faults.
A switchgear or electrical switchgear is a generic term which includes all the switching devices associated with mainly power system protection. It also includes all devices associated with control, metering and regulating of electrical power system. Assembly of such devices in a logical manner forms a switchgear. This is the very basic definition of switchgear.
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The apparatus used for switching, controlling & protecting the electrical circuits & equipments are known as switchgear.
The switchgear equipments is essentially used with switching & interrupting currents either under normal or abnormal operating condition.
It consists of devices such as switches, fuses, circuit breakers, relays etc.
Basically every electric circuit needs a switching device & a protecting device.
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Switchgear plays an important role in electricity distribution and its performance significantly affects the overall performance of the system. Failure to efficiently disconnect faults elsewhere in the network or failure in switchgear itself is costly, resulting in additional loss of supply, damage to equipment and possibly fatal injury to personnel. It is therefore critically important that switchgear is operated and maintained correctly, within an overall asset management regime that is both economic and effective in securing a high level of system reliability.
This comprehensive workshop focuses on medium voltage switchgear, which comprises by far the bulk of switchgear on most electricity distribution systems. The emphasis is primarily on oil, air blast, SF6 and vacuum circuit breakers, but other forms of MV switchgear, for example ring main units and auto-reclosers will also be described.
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Every power supply depends upon a reliable infeed of electricity. Air circuit breakers reliably protect electrical installations against damage or fire as a result of short circuits, ground faults, or overload faults.
A switchgear or electrical switchgear is a generic term which includes all the switching devices associated with mainly power system protection. It also includes all devices associated with control, metering and regulating of electrical power system. Assembly of such devices in a logical manner forms a switchgear. This is the very basic definition of switchgear.
⋗To get more with details
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2SvKI7eepP241VLoui1D5A
The apparatus used for switching, controlling & protecting the electrical circuits & equipments are known as switchgear.
The switchgear equipments is essentially used with switching & interrupting currents either under normal or abnormal operating condition.
It consists of devices such as switches, fuses, circuit breakers, relays etc.
Basically every electric circuit needs a switching device & a protecting device.
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Switchgear plays an important role in electricity distribution and its performance significantly affects the overall performance of the system. Failure to efficiently disconnect faults elsewhere in the network or failure in switchgear itself is costly, resulting in additional loss of supply, damage to equipment and possibly fatal injury to personnel. It is therefore critically important that switchgear is operated and maintained correctly, within an overall asset management regime that is both economic and effective in securing a high level of system reliability.
This comprehensive workshop focuses on medium voltage switchgear, which comprises by far the bulk of switchgear on most electricity distribution systems. The emphasis is primarily on oil, air blast, SF6 and vacuum circuit breakers, but other forms of MV switchgear, for example ring main units and auto-reclosers will also be described.
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Introduction to protection system and its elements, functions of protective relaying, protective zones, primary and backup protection, desirable qualities of protective relaying, basic terminology.
Relays:
Electromagnetic, attracted and induction type relays, thermal relay, gas actuated relay, design considerations of electromagnetic relay.
Unit-II: Relay Application and Characteristics:
Amplitude and phase comparators, over current relays, directional relays, distance relays, differential relay.
Static Relays: Comparison with electromagnetic relay, classification and their description, over current relays, directional relay, distance relays, differential relay.
Unit-III Protection of Transmission Line:
Over current protection, distance protection, pilot wire protection, carrier current protection, protection of bus, auto re-closing,
Unit-IV: Circuit Breaking:
Properties of arc, arc extinction theories, re-striking voltage transient, current chopping, resistance switching, capacitive current interruption, short line interruption, circuit breaker ratings.
Testing Of Circuit Breaker: Classification, testing station and equipments, testing procedure, direct and indirect testing.
Unit-V Apparatus Protection:
Protection of Transformer, generator and motor.
Circuit Breaker: Operating modes, selection of circuit breakers, constructional features and operation of Bulk Oil, Minimum Oil, Air Blast, SF6, Vacuum and d. c. circuit breakers.
Air circuit breaker (ACB) Low-Voltage Miduim-Voltage High VoltageRathana Lan
Air Circuit Breaker, is the application use full in low voltage for the main switch gear. easy to quench the arc and long life varrenty. but for high voltage is completly replace by oil circuit breaker. It mainly 2 types of ACB are Plain Aircircuit Breaker and Air-blash Air Circuit Breaker. Plain Aircircuit Breaker mostly use in Low and Miduim Voltage and Air-Blash Air Circuit Breaker is mostly use in high voltage.
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How is power transformer protected??? This provides a basic understanding of power transformer. Furthermore, the protective relay application on power transformer is included.
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he apparatus used for switching, controlling and protecting the electrical circuits and equipment is known as switchgear. Switches, fuse, circuit breaker, relay, isolator this are some essential switchgear used in domestic and industrial application.
Test done on Power transformers.
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Unit I: Introduction to Protection System:
Introduction to protection system and its elements, functions of protective relaying, protective zones, primary and backup protection, desirable qualities of protective relaying, basic terminology.
Relays:
Electromagnetic, attracted and induction type relays, thermal relay, gas actuated relay, design considerations of electromagnetic relay.
Unit-II: Relay Application and Characteristics:
Amplitude and phase comparators, over current relays, directional relays, distance relays, differential relay.
Static Relays: Comparison with electromagnetic relay, classification and their description, over current relays, directional relay, distance relays, differential relay.
Unit-III Protection of Transmission Line:
Over current protection, distance protection, pilot wire protection, carrier current protection, protection of bus, auto re-closing,
Unit-IV: Circuit Breaking:
Properties of arc, arc extinction theories, re-striking voltage transient, current chopping, resistance switching, capacitive current interruption, short line interruption, circuit breaker ratings.
Testing Of Circuit Breaker: Classification, testing station and equipments, testing procedure, direct and indirect testing.
Unit-V Apparatus Protection:
Protection of Transformer, generator and motor.
Circuit Breaker: Operating modes, selection of circuit breakers, constructional features and operation of Bulk Oil, Minimum Oil, Air Blast, SF6, Vacuum and d. c. circuit breakers.
Air circuit breaker (ACB) Low-Voltage Miduim-Voltage High VoltageRathana Lan
Air Circuit Breaker, is the application use full in low voltage for the main switch gear. easy to quench the arc and long life varrenty. but for high voltage is completly replace by oil circuit breaker. It mainly 2 types of ACB are Plain Aircircuit Breaker and Air-blash Air Circuit Breaker. Plain Aircircuit Breaker mostly use in Low and Miduim Voltage and Air-Blash Air Circuit Breaker is mostly use in high voltage.
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How is power transformer protected??? This provides a basic understanding of power transformer. Furthermore, the protective relay application on power transformer is included.
This PPT explains about the circuit breaker, and its types. Then about the need and purpose of the circuit breaker. And finally the testing and types of testing of circuit breakers.
Bus Bar protection Schemes,Simple Current differential scheme,Need for bus bar protection,requirement of bus bar protection,recommendations for providing bus bar protection,basics of busbar protection,Types of bus-bar protections,High speed differential protection
he apparatus used for switching, controlling and protecting the electrical circuits and equipment is known as switchgear. Switches, fuse, circuit breaker, relay, isolator this are some essential switchgear used in domestic and industrial application.
Test done on Power transformers.
Insulation Resistance test, Winding Resistance test, Ratio Measurements, Magnetic balance test, Tan delta test, DIssolved gas analysis for transformer, Sweep frequency response analysis.
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Reverse Osmosis is a process in which dissolved inorganic solids (such as salts) are removed from a solution (such as water). This is accomplished by household water pressure pushing the tap water through a semi permeable membrane. The membrane (which is about as thick as cellophane) allows only the water to pass through, not the impurities or contaminates. http://catalogs.indiamart.com/products/reverse-osmosis-systems.html
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Injuries due to arc flash can depend on many factors, one of which is the incident thermal energy on a worker exposed to a flash. Today, a considerable body of knowledge exists as a result of research efforts and is available to designers and maintenance engineers in the form of standards such as IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E. This workshop will detail the basis of this approach and also about the major advances that have been made in the area of PPE made of FR fabrics and rated for different levels of thermal exposure.
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1. Shoubra Faculty of engineering
Benha university
4th year , electrical power
engineering
Names:
sec: bn:
Shereen Wajdy Abdulkareem 6
Sara saeed Nassa
5
Kareem gamal abdulmaksou
7
hossam hamdy salam
4
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138
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2.
3. Electrical Circuit Breaker is a switching device
which can be operated manually as well as
automatically for controlling and protection
of electrical power system respectively. As the
modern power system deals with huge currents,
the spacial attention should be given during
designing of circuit breaker to safe interruption of
arc produced during the operation of circuit
breaker. This was the basic definition of circuit
breaker.
4. The modern power system deals with huge
power network and huge numbers of
associated electrical equipment. During short
circuit fault or any other types of electrical fault
these equipment as well as the power network
suffer a high stress of fault current in them
which may damage the equipment and
networks permanently. For saving these
equipments and the power networks the fault
current should be cleared from the system as
quickly as possible
5. . Again after the fault is cleared, the system must come
to its normal working condition as soon as possible for
supplying reliable quality power to the receiving ends. In
addition to that for proper controlling of power system,
different switching operations are required to be
performed. So for timely disconnecting and
reconnecting different parts of power system network
for protection and control, there must be some special
type of switching devices which can be operated safely
under huge current carrying condition. During
interruption of huge current, there would be large arcing
in between switching contacts, so care should be taken
to quench these arcs in safe manner. The circuit
breaker is the special device which does all the required
switching operations during current carrying condition.
This was the basic introduction to circuit breaker
6. The circuit breaker mainly consists of fixed
contacts and moving contacts. In normal "on"
condition of circuit breaker, these two contacts are
physically connected to each other due to applied
mechanical pressure on the moving contacts. There
is an arrangement stored potential energy in
the operating mechanism of circuit breaker which
is realized if switching signal given to the breaker.
The potential energy can be stored in the circuit
breaker by different ways like by deforming metal
spring, by compressed air, or by hydrolic pressure.
But whatever the source of potential energy, it
must be released during operation. Release of
potential energy makes sliding of the moving
contact at extremely fast manner.
7. All circuit breaker have operating coils (tripping coils
and close coil), whenever these coils are energized by
switching pulse, the plunger inside them displaced.
This operating coil plunger is typically attached to
the operating mechanism of circuit breaker, as a
result the mechanically stored potential energy in the
breaker mechanism is released in forms of kinetic
energy, which makes the moving contact to move as
these moving contacts mechanically attached through
a gear lever arrangement with the operating
mechanism.
8. After a cycle of operation of circuit breaker the
total stored energy is released and hence the
potential energy again stored in the operating
mechanism of circuit breaker by means of spring
charging motor or air compressor or by any other
means. Till now we have discussed about
mechanical working principle of circuit breaker. But
there are electrical characteristics of a circuit
breaker which also should be consider in this
discussion of operation of circuit breaker.
9. Let's have a discussion on electrical principle
of circuit breaker
The circuit breaker has to carry large rated or fault
power. Due to this large power there is always
dangerously high arcing between moving contacts
and fixed contact during operation of circuit breaker.
Again as we discussed earlier the arc in circuit
breaker can be quenching safely if the dielectric
strength between the current carrying contacts of
circuit breaker increases rapidly during every current
zero crossing of the alternating current.
10. The dielectric strength of the media in between
contacts can be increased in numbers of ways,
like by compressing the ionized arcing media
since compressing accelerates the
deionization process of the media, by cooling the
arcing media since cooling increase the
resistance of arcing path or by replacing the
ionized arcing media by fresh gasses. Hence a
numbers of arc quenching processes should be
involved in operation of circuit breaker.
11. According different criteria there are
different types of circuit breaker
According to their arc quenching media the
circuit breaker can be divided as
12. According to their services the circuit
breaker can be divided as
1) Outdoor Circuit Breaker
2) Indoor Breaker
According to the operating mechanism of
circuit breaker they can be divided as
1) Spring operated Circuit Breaker
2) Pneumatic Circuit Breaker
3) Hydrolic Circuit Breaker
13. According to the voltage level of
installation types of circuit breaker are
referred as
1) High Voltage Circuit Breaker
2) Medium Voltage Circuit Breaker
3) Low Voltage Circuit Breaker
14. Before going through details arc quenching or arc
extinction technologies employed in circuit breaker we should know
first what is arc actually.
What is arc ?
During opening of current carrying contacts in a
circuit breaker the medium in between opening
contacts become highly ionized through which the
interrupting current gets low resistive path and
continues to flow through this path even the
contacts are physically separated. During the
flowing of current from one contact to other the
path becomes so heated that it glows. This is
called arc.
15. Arc in Circuit Breaker
Whenever, on load current contacts of circuit
breaker open there is an arc in circuit breaker,
established between the separating contacts. As
long as this arc is sustained in between the
contacts the current through the circuit breaker will
not be interrupted finally as because arc is itself a
conductive path of electricity. For total interruption
of current the circuit breaker it is essential to
quench the arc as quick as possible. The main
designing criteria of a circuit breaker is to provide
appropriate technology of arc quenching in circuit
breaker to fulfill quick and safe current
interruption.
16.
17. This type of circuit breakers, is those kind
of circuit breaker which operates in air at
atmospheric pressure. After development of
oil breaker, the medium voltage air circuit
breaker (ACB) is replaced completely by oil
circuit breaker in different countries. But in
countries like France and Italy, ACBs are still
preferable choice up to voltage 15 KV. It is
also good choice to avoid the risk of oil fire,
in case of oil circuit breaker. In America
ACBs were exclusively used for the system
up to 15 KV until the development of new
vacuum and SF6 circuit breakers.
18. Working principle of Air Circuit Breaker
The working principle of this breaker is rather
different from those in any other types of
circuit breakers. The main aim of all kind of
circuit breaker is to prevent the reestablishment
of arcing after current zero by creating a
situation where in the contact gap will
withstand the system recovery voltage. The air
circuit breaker does the same but in different
manner. For interrupting arc it creates an arc
voltage in excess of the supply voltage. Arc
voltage is defined as the minimum voltage
required maintaining the arc. This circuit
breaker increases the arc voltage by mainly
three different ways,
19. It may increase the arc voltage by cooling the
arc plasma. As the temperature of arc plasma is
decreased, the mobility of the particle in arc
plasma is reduced; hence more voltage
gradient is required to maintain the arc.
It may increase the arc voltage by lengthening
the arc path. As the length of arc path is
increased, the resistance of the path is
increased, and hence to maintain the same arc
current more voltage is required to be applied
across the arc path. That means arc voltage is
increased.
Splitting up the arc into a number of series arcs
also increases the arc voltage.
20. There are mainly two types of ACB are
available.
1) Plain air circuit breaker
2) Air blast Circuit Breaker.
21. Operation of ACB
The first objective is usually achieved by forcing
the arc into contact with as large an area as
possible of insulating material. Every air circuit
breaker is fitted with a chamber surrounding the
contact. This chamber is called 'arc chute'. The
arc is driven into it. If inside of the arc chute is
suitably shaped, and if the arc can be made
conform to the shape, the arc chute wall will
help to achieve cooling. This type of arc chute
should be made from some kind of refractory
material. High temperature plastics reinforced
with glass fiber and ceramics are preferable
materials for making arc chute.
22. The second objective that is lengthening
the arc path, is achieved concurrently with
fist objective. If the inner walls of the arc
chute is shaped in such a way that the arc
is not only forced into close proximity with
it but also driven into a serpentine channel
projected on the arc chute wall. The
lengthening of the arc path increases the
arc resistance.
The third technique is achieved by using
metal arc slitter inside the arc chute. The
main arc chute is divided into numbers of
small compartments by using metallic
separation plates.
23. These metallic separation plates are actually the
arc splitters and each of the small compartments
behaves as individual mini arc chute. In this
system the initial arc is split into a number of
series arcs, each of which will have its won mini
arc chute. So each of the split arcs has its won
cooling and lengthening effect due to its won
mini arc chute and hence individual split arc
voltage becomes high. These collectively, make
the over all arc voltage, much higher than the
system voltage.
This was working principle of air circuit
breaker now we will discuss in details the
operation of ACB in practice.
24. The air circuit breaker, operated within the
voltage level 1KV, does not require any arc control
device. Mainly for heavy fault current on low
voltages (low voltage level above 1 KV) ABCs with
appropriate arc control device, are good choice.
These breakers normally have two pairs of
contacts. The main pair of contacts carries the
current at normal load and these contacts are
made of copper. The additional pair is the arcing
contact and is made of carbon. When circuit
breaker is being opened, the main contacts open
first and during opening of main contacts the
arcing contacts are still in touch with each other.
25. As the current gets, a parallel low resistive path
through the arcing contact during opening of
main contacts, there will not be any arcing in the
main contact. The arcing is only initiated when
finally the arcing contacts are separated. The
each of the arc contacts is fitted with an arc
runner which helps, the arc discharge to move
upward due to both thermal and electromagnetic
effects as shown in the figure. As the arc is
driven upward it enters in the arc chute,
consisting of splitters. The arc in chute will
become colder, lengthen and split hence arc
voltage becomes much larger than system
voltage at the time of operation of air circuit
breaker, and therefore the arc is quenched
finally during the current zero.
26. Although this type of circuit breakers have
become obsolete for medium voltage application,
but they are still preferable choice for high
current rating in low voltage application.
27.
28. These types of air circuit breaker were used for
the system voltage of 245KV, 420KV and even
more, especially where faster breaker operation
was required. Air Blast Circuit Breaker has some
specific advantages over oil circuit breaker
which are listed as follows,
1) There is no chance of fire hazard caused by
oil.
2) The breaking speed of circuit breaker is
much higher during operation of air blast
circuit breaker.
29. 3) Arc quenching is much faster during operation of air
blast circuit breaker.
4) The duration of arc is same for all values of small as
well as high currents interruptions.
5) As the duration of arc is smaller, so lesser amount of
heat realized from arc to current carrying contacts
hence the service life of the contacts becomes longer.
6) The stability of the system can be well maintained as
it depends on the speed of operation of circuit breaker.
7) Requires much less maintenance compared to oil
circuit breaker.
30. There are also some disadvantages of air blast
circuit breakers
1) In order to have frequent operations, it is
necessary to have sufficiently high capacity air
compressor.
2) Frequent maintenance of compressor, associated
air pipes and automatic control equipments is also
required.
3) Due to high speed current interruption there is
always a chance of high rate of rise of re-striking
voltage and current chopping.
4) There also a chance of air pressure leakage from
air pipes junctions.
31. As we said earlier that there are mainly two
types of ACB, plain air circuit breaker and air
blast circuit breaker. But the later can be sub
divided further into three different categories.
a) Axial Blast ACB.
b) Axial Blast ACB with side moving contact.
c) Cross Blast ACB.
32.
33. In Axial Blast ACB the moving contact is in contact
with fixed contact with the help of a spring pressure
as shown in the figure. There is a nozzle orifice in the
fixed contact which is blocked by tip of the moving
contact at normal closed condition of the breaker.
When fault occurs, the high pressure air is introduced
into the arcing chamber. The air pressure will counter
the spring pressure and deforms the spring hence the
moving contact is withdrawn from the fixed contact
and nozzle hole becomes open. At the same time the
high pressure air starts flowing along the arc through
the fixed contact nozzle orifice. This axial flow of air
along the arc through the nozzle orifice will make the
arc lengthen and colder hence arc voltage become
much higher than system voltage that means system
voltage is insufficient to sustain the arc consequently
the arc is quenched.
34.
35. In this type of axial blast air circuit breaker
the moving contact is fitted over a piston
supported over a spring. In order to open the
circuit breaker the air is admitted into the
arcing chamber when pressure reaches to a
predetermined value, it presses down the
moving contact; an arc is drawn between the
fixed and moving contacts. The air blast
immediately transfers the arc to the arcing
electrode and is consequently quenched by
the axial flow of air.
36.
37. The working principle of Cross Blast Air Circuit Breaker is quite
simple. In this system of air blast circuit breaker the blast pipe
is fixed in perpendicular to the movement of moving contact in
the arcing chamber and on the opposite side of the arcing
chamber one exhaust chamber is also fitted at the same
alignment of blast pipe, so that the air comes from blast pipe
can straightly enter into exhaust chamber through the contact
gap of the breaker. The exhaust chamber is spit with arc
splitters. When moving contact is withdrawn from fixed
contact, an arc is established in between the contact, and at
the same time high pressure air coming from blast pipe will
pass through the contact gap and will forcefully take the arc
into exhaust chamber where the arc is split with the help of arc
splitters and ultimately arc is quenched
38. References :
1) Electrical Engineering
Online Electrical Engineering Study Site
2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_brea
ker