• DocumentCode
    1309755
  • Title

    Focused Shadowgraphy in the Heating Volume of a High-Voltage Gas Circuit Breaker

  • Author

    Wiget, Roger ; Lundqvist, Fredrik ; Basse, Nils T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol. & Electr. Eng., ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    2852
  • Lastpage
    2853
  • Abstract
    The gas or plasma flow in the heating volume is central for the interruption performance of a circuit breaker (CB). This flow is visualized in a real breaker for the first time. Transparent parts were added to the breaker to use the focused shadowgraphy technique. Several experiments show the flow and distribution of the hot gas in the heating volume. The results can be used for further analysis of the gas/plasma flow in a CB.
  • Keywords
    circuit breakers; heating; focused shadowgraphy; gas-plasma flow; heating volume; high-voltage gas circuit breaker; hot gas distribution; shadowgraphy technique; Circuit breakers; Heating; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Plasmas; Sulfur hexafluoride; Visualization; Gas circuit breaker; Gladstone–Dale relation; gas flow visualization; high-speed camera; shadowgraphy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.2011.2163084
  • Filename
    6004838