High current / circuit breaker laboratory

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRIC ENERGY

High current / circuit breaker laboratory

Researchers working on hardware. Photo

The high current/ circuit breaker laboratory consists of two test circuits:

Three phase circuit: 

3 MVA / 15 kA continuous operation (maximum short time current 140 kA )

One phase circuit:

- Test voltages: 6.9 – 24 kV

- Test currents from 400 to 1250 A

The one phase test circuit is specially designed for studying current interruption in medium voltage load break switches. Current amplitude and transient recovery voltage can be adjusted with high precision.        

Contact

Contact

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Kaveh Niayesh
Professor
kaveh.niayesh@ntnu.no