DocumentCode
3611264
Title
Visiting Powerful Places [Back Story]
Volume
52
Issue
12
fYear
2015
fDate
12/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
4
Lastpage
4
Abstract
As director of innovation at KEMA Laboratories, in Arnhem, Netherlands, René Smeets is no stranger to power. The lab tests circuit breakers and transformers built for ultrahigh-voltage (UHV) transmission systems, ensuring that these components can control the titanic current flows unleashed during short circuits. KEMA\´s strategies to mimic those extreme conditions in the lab, which Smeets describes in the article "Safeguarding the Supergrid," give him an intimate understanding of how the components will perform when they\´re deployed in vast, nation-spanning transmission networks.
Keywords
circuit breakers; power transformers; power transmission faults; short-circuit currents; KEMA Laboratories; Netherlands; UHV transmission systems; circuit breakers; short circuits; transformers; transmission networks; ultrahigh-voltage transmission systems;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2015.7335779
Filename
7335779
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