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Circuit Breakers Interview Questions Answers

Circuit breakers use current chopping to interrupt current before it reaches zero. Isolation switches are provided for safety to separate disconnected elements from live portions of a system. Asymmetrical breaking current is higher than symmetrical breaking current because it includes both AC and DC components, while symmetrical only includes AC. Recovery voltage appears after transients die out and is the final voltage after arc extinction. Switching inductive loads is more difficult than resistive loads because the voltage is maximum at current zero during inductive load switching, allowing the arc to re-strike.

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Circuit breakers use current chopping to interrupt current before it reaches zero. Isolation switches are provided for safety to separate disconnected elements from live portions of a system. Asymmetrical breaking current is higher than symmetrical breaking current because it includes both AC and DC components, while symmetrical only includes AC. Recovery voltage appears after transients die out and is the final voltage after arc extinction. Switching inductive loads is more difficult than resistive loads because the voltage is maximum at current zero during inductive load switching, allowing the arc to re-strike.

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Circuit Breakers Interview Questions Answers

What is meant by Current Chopping?

Answer: Current Chopping is a phenomenon of current interruption before the natural current
zero is reached.

Why Isolation switches are provided along with the circuit breakers?

Answer: Isolation switches are provided for separating the disconnected element from the live
portion of the system for the purpose of safety.

Why asymmetrical breaking current is higher than the symmetrical breaking current in a
circuit breaker?

Answer: Asymmetrical breaking current is the rms value of the combined sum of the dc and ac
components of the short circuit current at the instant of separation of the breaker contacts
while symmetrical breaking current is the rms value of the ac component alone. Thus
asymmetrical breaking current is higher than the symmetrical breaking current.

What is recovery voltage in circuit breaker?

Answer: Recovery voltage in circuit breakers is defined as the power frequency rms voltage
which appears across the breaker contacts after the transient oscillations die out and the final
extinction of the arc has resulted in all the poles of the circuit breaker.

It is the voltage developed after the arc extinction is competed

When does an arc extincts?

Answer: If the rate of rise of re-striking voltage (RRRV) is less than rate of rise of dielectric
strength between the breaker contacts arc will not sustain and extincts

What is re-striking voltage?

Answer: The Re-striking voltage may be defined as the resultant transient voltage which
appears across the breaker contacts at the instant of arc extinction

For an Resistive Load and Inductive load considered for switching operation of circuit breaker,
Switching of which load is difficult and Why?

Answer: In case of switching resistive load, current and voltage will be in phase i.e,when during
current zero voltage also will be zero in case of resistive load. Hence the voltage at the breaker
terminals during arc extinction is zero or minimal. On the other hand, for switching inductive
load during current zero voltage across the breaker will be maximum. This results in re-striking
of arc once again. Therefore switching inductive load will be difficult

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