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Jochen Kiefer

Martin Lakner

Daniel Chartouni

Jean-Claude Mauroux

Thomas Schoenemann

Lukas Zehnder

Marc Mollenkopf

Dietmar Gentsch

Stephan Grob

Max Claessens

Markus Keller

Xiangyang Ye

Leopold Ritzer

Marianne Pleines

Alexander Steffens

Patrick Huguenot

Peter Unternaehrer

Thomas Shoenemann

Mercedes Dominguez Calvo

Mercedes Calvo Dominguez

Zoran Andjelic

The disclosure relates to an electrical switching device, e.g., a generator circuit breaker, and to a method for improved switching-gas cooling. Gas jets are formed by a nozzle body in the exhaust area, are directed against a baffle wall and are swirled. The baffle wall is a component of the switching chamber enclosure and has a high thermal capacity and/or thermal conductivity, so that the switching gas vortices produce a highly efficient switching gas cooling on the baffle wall by turbulent convection. Exemplary embodiments relate inter alia to the design of the baffle wall and of the nozzle body. Advantages include: protection of the switching chamber enclosure against hot gases, improved switching gas cooling, and increased breaking capacity.

Generator circuit breaker with improved switching capacity

The high-voltage system has at least one feed line and at least one high-power circuit breaker, the at least one feed line having a longitudinally extended feed line inner conductor and a feed line outer conductor surrounding the feed line inner conductor, and the high-power circuit breaker having a longitudinally extended circuit breaker inner conductor and a circuit breaker outer conductor surrounding the circuit breaker inner conductor in the form of a housing, and the inner conductors and the outer conductors being electrically conductively connected to one another. At least one heat pipe is provided for the purpose of dissipating thermal energy from the circuit breaker inner conductor. The heat pipe interacts with a cooling gas flow extending along the circuit breaker inner conductor.

High-voltage system and high-power circuit breaker with cooling

The installation contains a current conductor producing Joulean heat in the operating state, a cooling element and a monitoring device. The cooling element has a condensable working medium and an evaporator, which can be heated by the current conductor of the installation, and a condenser which has been withdrawn from the heating effect of the current conductor. The monitoring device comprises at least one sensor for detecting a parameter of the cooling element and an evaluation unit, which receives output signals from the sensor. In the evaluation unit, the output signals of the sensors are evaluated and a signal describing the state and/or the functionality of the cooling element is formed there. This installation is characterized by high operational reliability with a high current-carrying capacity and dimensions which are kept small.

Electrical installation with a cooling element and method for operating said installation

An exemplary isolating tube, and production method thereof, includes a mechanically load-bearing plastic tube composed of a fiber-reinforced polymer for use in a cooling element which can be loaded with high voltage, during whose operation the isolating tube forms an electrical isolation gap and in the tube interior carries an agent which flows as a liquid and/or vapor. The isolating tube can have a diffusion barrier which is held coaxially by the plastic tube. Such an isolating tube can be produced using an exemplary novel method for production.

Isolating tube for a cooling element which can be loaded with high voltage

The vacuum switching chamber has two contact pieces and is provided with at least one heat pipe for dissipating heat. The heat pipe contains a working medium for dissipating the heat by evaporating the working medium in a section, referred to as the evaporator, of the heat pipe and condensing the working medium in a section, referred to as the condenser, of the heat pipe. Advantageously, the evaporator is in close thermal contact with at least one contact piece, and, in particular, at least part of the evaporator is integrated in the first contact piece or the second contact piece. Advantageously, the condenser has a cooling rib arrangement.

Vacuum circuit breaker having a high current-carrying capacity

In order to dissipate heat losses from the inner conductor (), the circuit breaker () having an elongated inner conductor () and an outer conductor () which surrounds the inner conductor () like a housing has at least one heat pipe () which extends from the inner conductor () to the outer conductor () and has an insulating hollow body () in order to form an electrical insulating gap (). The heat pipe () advantageously has a flexibly deformable section (). The heat pipe () can run in a supporting insulator () which supports the inner conductor (). In addition to a working medium, the heat pipe () advantageously also contains an auxiliary gas which results in an enhanced dielectric strength at low temperatures.

High voltage circuit breaker with cooling

The basis taken is a cooling element () made of a metal or of a metal alloy having at least one cooling rib () which is connected to a metal housing () for an operating means. The intention is to provide a cooling element () which has an improved cooling capacity. The inventive cooling element () is detachably connected to the housing () by means of fixing means. The cooling element () is provided with a thermally conductive and electrically insulating coating (), and it has the same electrical potential as the housing (), but carries no current.

Cooling element

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Nussbaumen, Switzerland

Jochen Kiefer