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  title info:
    title: The vacuum interrupter
    sub title: theory, design, and application
  name:
    name part: Slade, Paul G.
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: handbooks.
  genre: Handbooks and manuals.
  genre: Guides et manuels.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    date issued: 2021
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This book begins by discussing the design requirements for high voltage vacuum interrupters and then the contact requirements to interrupt the vacuum arc. It then continues by describing the various applications in which the vacuum interrupter is generally utilized. Part 1 of this book begins with a detailed review of the vacuum breakdown process. It continues by covering the steps necessary for the design and the manufacture of a successful vacuum interrupter. The vacuum arc is then discussed, including how it is affected as a function of current. An overview of the development and use of practical contact materials, along with their advantages and disadvantages, follows. Contact designs that are introduced to control the high current vacuum arc are also analyzed. Part 2, on application, begins with a discussion of the arc interruption process for low current and high current vacuum arcs. It examines the voltage escalation phenomenon that can occur when interrupting inductive circuits. The occurrence of contact welding for closed contacts subjected to the passage of high currents, and for contacts when closing on high currents, is explored. The general requirements for the successful manufacture and testing of vacuum circuit breakers is then presented. The general application of vacuum interrupters to switch load currents, especially when applied to capacitor circuits, is also given. The interruption of high short circuit currents is presented along with the expected performance of the two major contact designs. Owing to the ever-increasing need for environmentally friendly circuit protection devices, the development and application of the vacuum interrupter will only increase in the future. At present the vacuum circuit breaker is the technology of choice for distribution circuits (5kV to 40.5kV). It is increasingly being applied to transmission circuits (72.5kV to 242kV). In the future, its application for protecting high voltage DC networks is assured.
  note: Paul G. Slade.
  note: Paul G. Slade has been an independent consultant for vacuum interrupter technology, electrical contacts and circuit interruption, since his retirement. He is also the holder of 23 US patents. He is the major contributor and editor of the 2nd edition of the book "Electrical Contacts: Principles and Applications". He is the recipient of the IEEE Ragnar Holm Scientific Achievement Award and of the German VDE Albert Keil Pries for his contributions to the science of electrical contacts. He is a fellow of the IEEE.
  subject:
    topic: Vacuum switches
  subject:
    topic: Electric circuit-breakers, Vacuum
  subject:
    topic: Interrupteurs à vide
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY / Electronics / Circuits / General
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Physics
  subject:
    topic: Electric circuit-breakers, Vacuum
  subject:
    topic: Vacuum switches
  classification: TK2842
  classification: 621.31/7
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1145908564
  identifier: 9781000169980
  identifier: 1000169987
  identifier: 9780429298912
  identifier: 0429298919
  identifier: 9781000170085
  identifier: 100017008X
  identifier: 9781000170030
  identifier: 1000170039
  identifier: 0367275058
  identifier: 9780367275051
  identifier: 9780429298912 Taylor & Francis
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 201114
    record change date: 20241108165431.8
    record identifier: in00005519057
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng