The major components of an Air Circuit Breaker （空气断路器的主要组件）.pdf

/air-circuit-breaker-arc-interruption The major components of an Air Circuit Breaker and the Arc Interruption Edvard The basic General Electric - MV Air circuit breaker characteristics for air magnetic circuit breakers are ma imum rationalization and constructional simplicity. The major components of such breakers are: the poles, the arc chutes, the base frame, the operating mechanism. The operating mechanism construction and parts are similar to that of the minimum oil circuit breaker. The poles include: 1. The fi ed and moving arcing contacts 2. The fi ed and moving main contacts 3. Epo y resin bushings 4 . Moving isolating contacts (main disconnects) 5. Pneumatic blow nozzles 6. The connections to the coils arc chute The arc chutes contain: 1. The blowout coils 2. The arc splitter plates 3. The arc runners 4 . Supporting insulating plates 5. The magnet pole pieces The arc interruption in oil is due to the generation of hydrogen gas because of the decomposition of oil. Arc interruption properties of hydrogen are far superior to air, but air has several advantages which are: Fire risk and maintenance difficulties associated with oil CB’s are eliminated, arcing products in air are generally removed, whereas oil deteriorates with successive breaking operations, (e.g. formation of carbon) heavy mechanical stresses set up by gas pressure and oil movement are absent. The arc in the air circuit breaker runs in a mi ture of nitrogen, o ygen and copper vapour. When the current is greater than 100A, these gases get dissociated into atoms, which changes the characteristics of the arc, on account of the associated change in its thermal conductivity. The outcome of this is the fact that the discharge suddenly contracts and acquires an appreciably higher core temperature. The oxygen gas may remain dissociated, even when the current is in