Abstract
This paper discusses the breaking ability of an air blast circuit breaker (ABB) or SF6 gas circuit breaker (GCB), and the interrupting phenomena around current zero in the case where a resistor or capacitor is connected in parallel with its interrupter to improve the breaking ability. It has been clarified that the use of a parallel resistor for ABB, and that of a parallel capacitor for GCB are the most effective methods to improve the breaking abilities; the parallel resistor not only serves to reduce the rate of rise of the transient recovery voltage (rrrV), but also shifts the current from the interrupter to itself around the current zero, thus reducing the stress for interruption. The improvement of the breaking ability is achieved by reducing the initial average rrrV between zero and 1 microseconds (inherent value), when the parallel capacitor is used with the GCB.
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