Open AccessOperation of Circuit Breakers: Data and Analysis
Author(s) -
Victory C. Madueme,
Muncho Josephine Mbunwe,
T. C. Madueme,
Ahmad Moheb,
Cornelia Victoria Anghel Drugărin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
multidisciplinary journal for education, social and technological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2341-2593
DOI - 10.4995/muse.2021.12406
Subject(s) - circuit breaker , tripping , reliability (semiconductor) , electrical engineering , reliability engineering , computer science , engineering , physics , power (physics) , quantum mechanics
An attempt has been made for the analysis on Circuit breakers (CBs) this paper. First, the types and arcing phenomenon of Oil and SF6 Circuit breakers were briefly discussed. However, various CBs were analyzed in terms of certain outage frequencies and reliability indices to ascertain the most reliable CB. This was possible using data collected from the 33kV Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) New Haven, Enugu. After the analysis, Emene Industrial CB had the highest value of availability of 0.9999 and the lowest tripping report while Ezillo had the highest failure rate of 0.1032.