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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
Abb Schweiz Ag, Baden, CH;
Ritwik Majumder, Västerås, SE;
Bertil Berggren, Västerås, SE;
Giovanni Velotto, Västerås, SE;
Tomas Jonsson, Linköping, SE;
Soubhik Auddy, Kolkata, IN;
Jenny Josefsson, Ludvika, SE;
ABB SCHWEIZ AG, Baden, CH;
Abstract
The invention concerns a switchyard for interconnecting direct current power networks and a direct current power transmission system comprising such a switchyard. The switchyard comprises a number of interconnected entities comprising at least two main circuit breakers and a number of transfer switches, where each network has two connections to the switchyard, at least one via a transfer switch, each main circuit breaker has four connections in the switchyard, two at each end of the main circuit breaker and at least one via a transfer switch, and each network is joined with every other network via a corresponding path through at least one main circuit breaker as well as via a corresponding path bypassing all main circuit breakers.