• DocumentCode
    1278656
  • Title

    Numerical Study of Arc Behavior in Miniature Circuit Breaker

  • Author

    Wu, Yi ; Rong, Mingzhe ; Yang, Fei ; Ma, Ruiguang ; Murphy, Anthony B. ; Liu, Zengchao ; Sun, Hao

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Electr. Insulation & Power Equip., Xi´´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´´an, China
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    2858
  • Lastpage
    2859
  • Abstract
    Arc behavior is very important to the performance of a low-voltage circuit breaker. A 3-D arc model for a certain type of miniature circuit breaker is built and calculated in this paper. The arc evolution is described in detail according to the temperature distribution images from the simulation results.
  • Keywords
    arcs (electric); circuit breakers; temperature distribution; 3-D arc model; arc behavior; low-voltage circuit breaker; miniature circuit breaker; temperature distribution images; Atmospheric modeling; Circuit breakers; Integrated circuit modeling; Numerical models; Plasma temperature; Sun; Arc; miniature circuit breaker (MCB); simulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.2011.2159275
  • Filename
    5959223