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    A circuit breaker is a mechanical switching device capable of making and breaking currents under normal and abnormal circuit conditions. It contains fixed and moving contacts, with the moving contact used to open and close the circuit using stored energy like a spring or compressed air. During a fault, an arc is formed between the contacts due to ionization of the surrounding medium from the high potential difference and current density. There are different types of circuit breakers based on voltage class, location, interrupting medium, including oil circuit breakers, air blast circuit breakers, SF6 circuit breakers, and vacuum circuit breakers.

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    A circuit breaker is a mechanical switching device capable of making and breaking currents under normal and abnormal circuit conditions. It contains fixed and moving contacts, with the moving contact used to open and close the circuit using stored energy like a spring or compressed air. During a fault, an arc is formed between the contacts due to ionization of the surrounding medium from the high potential difference and current density. There are different types of circuit breakers based on voltage class, location, interrupting medium, including oil circuit breakers, air blast circuit breakers, SF6 circuit breakers, and vacuum circuit breakers.

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    Circuit Breaker

    Enviado por

    heroi1423
    A circuit breaker is a mechanical switching device capable of making and breaking currents under normal and abnormal circuit conditions. It contains fixed and moving contacts, with the moving contact used to open and close the circuit using stored energy like a spring or compressed air. During a fault, an arc is formed between the contacts due to ionization of the surrounding medium from the high potential difference and current density. There are different types of circuit breakers based on voltage class, location, interrupting medium, including oil circuit breakers, air blast circuit breakers, SF6 circuit breakers, and vacuum circuit breakers.

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    A circuit breaker is a mechanical switching device, capable of making, carrying and breaking currents under normal circuit conditions.

    It is also capable of making and carrying currents for a specified time and breaking currents under specified abnormal circuit conditions, such as those of a short circuit.

    Circuit Breaker consists of two contacts: Fixed contact. Moving contact. Moving contact is used to make and break the circuit using stored energies in the form of spring or compressed air. Spring, pneumatic or oil damping is used to arrest the speed of mc while closing. FC contains a spring which holds the mc after closing.

    During the separation of contacts, due to large fault current and high current density at the contact region the surrounding medium ionizes and thus a conducting medium is formed. This is called the ARC. Factors responsible for arc:Potential difference between the contacts. Ionized particles between the contacts.

    There are different types of circuit breakers based on voltage, location, external media and interrupting device. Different circuit breakers based on interrupting device are: Oil Circuit breakers Air Blast Circuit Breakers SF6 Circuit Breakers Vacuum Circuit Breakers

    Oil Circuit Breaker


    It is designed for 11kv-765kv. These are of two types

    BOCB (Bulk oil Circuit Breaker) MOCB (Minimum oil Circuit Breaker) The contacts are immersed in oil bath. Oil provides cooling by hydrogen created by arc. It acts as a good dielectric medium and quenches the arc.

    Advantages:
    Oil has good dielectric strength. 2. Low cost. 3. Oil is easily available. 4. It has wide range of breaking capability.
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    Disadvantages:
    Slower operation , takes about 20 cycles for arc quenching. 2. It is highly inflammable , so high risk of fire. 3. High maintenance cost.
    1.

    Air Blast Circuit Breakers


    This operates using high

    velocity blast of air which quenches the arc. It consists of blast valve , blast tube & contacts. Blast valve contains air at high pressure. Blast tube carries the air at high pressure & opens the moving contact attached to spring. There is no carbonization of surface as in VCB. Air should be kept clean & dry to operate it properly.

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