Abstract
Characteristics of the hot gas flow in an SF/sub 6/ gas circuit breaker during short-circuit interruption are investigated both experimentally and theoretically, to achieve a more efficient design and to obtain a better way of evaluating circuit-breaker performance. The discharge voltages of small gaps in the actual circuit breaker were measured. The results indicate that the thermodynamic characteristics in the dissociation process of SF/sub 6/ molecule affect the behavior of the hot gas flow, even outside of the interrupter chamber. The effect of SF/sub 6/ dissociation cannot be neglected even in a wide space in EHV circuit breakers. A program to simulate transient compressible fluid flows was developed. The applicability of this program is proved by the experimental results.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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