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    Air Blast Circuit Breaker 1

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    Air blast circuit breakers use compressed air as a quenching medium to rapidly extinguish arcs that form when the circuit is opened. They direct a blast of air along, across, or radially at the arc to cool it and sweep away arcing products, allowing the dielectric strength between contacts to build up and interrupt current flow. While offering advantages like small size and rapid arcing times, air blast circuit breakers require maintenance for their compressor plants and can be sensitive to variations in restriking voltage. They currently find wide application in high voltage installations above 110kV.

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    Air blast circuit breakers use compressed air as a quenching medium to rapidly extinguish arcs that form when the circuit is opened. They direct a blast of air along, across, or radially at the arc to cool it and sweep away arcing products, allowing the dielectric strength between contacts to build up and interrupt current flow. While offering advantages like small size and rapid arcing times, air blast circuit breakers require maintenance for their compressor plants and can be sensitive to variations in restriking voltage. They currently find wide application in high voltage installations above 110kV.

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    Air blast circuit breakers use compressed air as a quenching medium to rapidly extinguish arcs that form when the circuit is opened. They direct a blast of air along, across, or radially at the arc to cool it and sweep away arcing products, allowing the dielectric strength between contacts to build up and interrupt current flow. While offering advantages like small size and rapid arcing times, air blast circuit breakers require maintenance for their compressor plants and can be sensitive to variations in restriking voltage. They currently find wide application in high voltage installations above 110kV.

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    Air Blast Circuit Breaker 1

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    Air blast circuit breakers use compressed air as a quenching medium to rapidly extinguish arcs that form when the circuit is opened. They direct a blast of air along, across, or radially at the arc to cool it and sweep away arcing products, allowing the dielectric strength between contacts to build up and interrupt current flow. While offering advantages like small size and rapid arcing times, air blast circuit breakers require maintenance for their compressor plants and can be sensitive to variations in restriking voltage. They currently find wide application in high voltage installations above 110kV.

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    Air Blast Circuit Breaker

    under the guidance of:- Presented By:-

    Mr. B.R.Reddy Anuj Kumar Pandey


    EN-3rd year
    Roll No. 0813321016

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    Unrestricted
     INTRODUCTION
     CLASSIFICATION
     ADVANTAGES
     DISADVANTAGES
     APPLICATIONS
     FUTURE PERSPECTIVE
     An electrical power system is very complex. It
    needs some form of switchgear in order that it
    may be safely and efficiently controlled or
    regulated under both normal and abnormal
    operating conditions.
     Circuit breaker is an automatically operated
    electrical switch.
     It protects an electrical circuit from damage
    caused by overload and short circuit.
     Its basic function is to detect a fault condition
    and, by interrupting continuity, to immediately
    discontinue electrical flow.
     Unlike a fuse, which operates once and then
    has to be replaced, a circuit breaker can be
    reset (either manually or automatically) to
    resume normal operation.
     It can be of various size , from small device
    that protects the appliances of an household
    to large to protect the entire city.
    FUNCTIONS:-
     It carries the full load current continuously
    without over heating or damage.
     It opens and closes the circuit on no load.
     It makes and breaks the normal operating
    current.
     It makes and breaks the short circuit current of
    magnitude up to which it is designed for.
     The circuit breaker can be classified
    on the basis of the quenching
    (cooling) medium:
    1. Air circuit breaker
    2. Air blast circuit breaker
    3. Tank type bulk oil circuit breaker
    4. Minimum oil circuit breaker
    5. SF6 circuit breaker
    6. Vacuum circuit breaker
     AIRBLAST CIRCUIT BREAKER
     These type of breakers employ ‘air blast’ as the
    quenching medium.
     The contacts are opened by air blast produced by
    the opening of blast valve.
     The air blast cools the arc and sweeps away the
    arcing products to the atmosphere.
     This rapidly increases the dielectric strength of
    the medium between contacts and prevents from
    re-establishing the arc.
     So the arc is extinguished and the flow of current
    is interrupted.

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    Typesof Air blast circuit breaker
    (1). Axial-blast type
    (2).Cross-blast type
    (3).Radial-blast type
    1) Axial-blast type:-

    In which the air-blast is


    directed along the arc path as
    shown in Fig.

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    2) Cross-blast type:-

    In which the air-blast is


    directed at right angles to the
    arc path as shown in Fig.

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    (3) Radial-blast type:-

    In which the air-blast is


    directed radially as shown
    in Fig

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     The risk of fire is eliminated.
     The arcing products are completely removed by the
    blast
     The growth of dielectric strength is so rapid that
    final contact gap needed for arc extinction is very
    small. This reduces the size of device.
     The arcing time is very small due to the rapid build
    up of dielectric strength between contacts
     Due to lesser arc energy, ABCB are very suitable for
    conditions where frequent operation is required
     The energy supplied for arc extinction is obtained
    from high pressure air & independent of the current
    to be interrupted
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     Air has relatively inferior arc extinguishing
    properties.

     Air blast circuit breakers are very sensitive to the


    variations in the rate of restriking voltage.

     Considerable maintenance is required for the


    compressor plant which supplies the air blast .

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     Theair blast circuit breakers are finding wide
    applications in high voltage installations.
    Majority of the circuit breakers for voltages
    beyond 110 kV are of this type.

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    ◦ In the near future, present interrupting
    technologies can be applied to circuit-breakers with
    the higher rated breaking currents (63 kA to 80 kA)
    required in some networks with increasing power
    generation.
    Thank you

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