Presenter-Gadewar

Shivani
Roll No.-14
Introduction
Need for testing
Testings of circuit breaker
Digital testing
Advantages &
Disadvantages
Applications
Conclusions
What is circuit breaker ?
A circuit breaker can make or break a circuit, either manually
or automatically under all conditions viz. no-load, full-load
and short-circuit conditions. The American National Standard
Institute (ANSI) defines circuit breaker as: “A mechanical
switching device capable of making, carrying and breaking
currents under normal circuit conditions and also making,
carrying for a specified time, and breaking currents under
specified abnormal circuit conditions such as those of short
circuit”.
high voltage circuit breaker
• In closed position they are good conductors.
• In open position they are excellent insulators.
• They can close a shorted circuit quickly and safely without
unacceptable contact erosion.
• They can interrupt a rated short-circuit current or lower
current quickly without generating an abnormal voltage.
 When an overload or a short circuit occurs in the home or
industry, the usual result is a blown fuse or a tripped circuit
breaker. Circuit breakers are mechanical devices, which are
subject to deterioration due to wear, corrosion and
environmental contamination, any of which could cause the
device to remain closed during a fault condition.
1.Routine tests
2.Type tests
 A project started with
the following parties :
•KEMA high power laboratories The Netherlands.
•Delft University of technology, The Netherlands.
•Siemens AG, Germany
•RWE Energy ,Germany
 developing digital testing of
hv circuit breakers. ie., a software product for testing a model
of such a device , once its characteristic fingerprints are
obtained from refined measurements during standard tests.
Digital offers a wide range of new possibilities for users,
manufactures, standardizing bodies and test laboratories for
fine tuning circuit breaker abilities in relation with standard
and real power systems.
Parameter extraction software
•Evaluation of the relevance of future standards for different circuit breaker
technologies and extinguishing media.

•Estimation of circuit breaker’s interrupting limit.

•Reduction of full scale testing in high-power laboratories.
•Identification of network topologies that can pose special difficulties to a circuit
breaker.

•Acceleration at development of new circuit breaker design.

•Monitoring the aging process of circuit breaker in service.
•Expansion of services for high-power laboratories
• Testing in costlier
• Testing is time consuming
• A tough procedure
APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL
TESTING -
•Influence of parallel capacitance -

Influence of a current transformer

 Digital testing gives precise
information about the breaker, as obtained from laboratory tests.
This is useful for the development of future standards. Powerful
possibilities with digital testing are created when arc model and
data analysis is coupled with a circuit analysis package. The
performance of a circuit breaker whose finger prints are
obtained from real tests can be estimated in other circuits also.