Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Electrical Switching and Control Apparatus

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	453-0503/01
Abbreviation	EPSŘ
Course title	Electrical Switching and Control Apparatus
Credits	6
Coordinating department	Department of Electrical Machines and Apparatus
Course coordinator	Ing. Zdeněk Hytka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Transients effects
Fuses

Fuses design
Breakers
Breakers design
Conductors
Conductors design
Grading of breakrs and fuses
Surge voltage protector and design

Exercises:
Fuse, breaker, conductor design and computing

Laboratories:
Measurment characteristic of time - current low voltage breaker

Thermal release measurement of breakers
Measurment of electrical contactors I,II.

Literature

Mason, J.R.: Switch engineering handbook, New York, 1993
Slade, P. G. - Electrical Contacts, CRC Press, 1999,

Flurscheim, Ch. H. - Power Circuit Breaker Theory and Design, IEE, 1982,
Nakanishi - Switching Phenomena in High-Voltage Circuit Breakers, CRC Press, 1991,

Advised literature

No advised literature has been specified for this subject.

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