US3700848A - Differential value safety device for compressed gas circuit interrupters - Google Patents

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US3700848A
US3700848A US114605A US3700848DA US3700848A US 3700848 A US3700848 A US 3700848A US 114605 A US114605 A US 114605A US 3700848D A US3700848D A US 3700848DA US 3700848 A US3700848 A US 3700848A
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Gerard Billon
Jean Claude Henry
Eugene Vincent
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    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H33/00—High-tension or heavy-current switches with arc-extinguishing or arc-preventing means
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  • Constantly increasing capacities and voltages of electricity networks require an increasing number of gas blast circuit breakers or interrupters for a given installation, and advantageously, these circuit breakers are supplied by a common pressurizing station through a pressure air or gas distribution system. Protection systems are known which detect normal or accidental pressure drops and operate corresponding interlocks to prevent misoperation, and valves for isolating the faulty part of the pressurizing circuit. The known facilities are complicated and cannot be used to isolate a heavily leaking single module or element of a circuit breaker while allowing the undamaged modules to continue in operation so as to provide a temporary service.
  • the insulation of the undamaged modules may be enough to withstand the ordinary voltage, and so it would be advantageous if the undamaged modules remain in operation for instance in opened position of the circuit breaker.
  • indicating means are associated with the safety device.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a mu]- tibreak circuit breaker wherein a leaking part may be isolated, the remaining undamaged parts still being in operation.
  • the safety device comprises a valve so disposed in a branching zone of the distribution network as to be able to shut off either of the branches from the branching or junction zone if a predetermined pressure difference arises between the pressures in the branches downstream of the valve.
  • the downstream pressures balance one another so that the valve is maintained in a position corresponding to normal supply of the two branches.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a two-module circuit breaker having a safety device according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a view in axial section and to an enlarged scale of the safety device shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing an installation having an odd number of modules.
  • one pole of an electric circuit breaker has two modules 10, 12 which are connected in series with one another electrically; each module has a pair of arc extinguishing chambers 14, 16 and 18, 20 respectively mounted on a respective spherical pressure gas or air reservoir 22, 24 in turn mounted on a respective insulator 26, 28.
  • the reservoirs 22, 24 are supplied from a compressed air source 31, inter alia a pressurizing station, through a line 30 which splits into two branches 32, 34 in a junction or splitting device 36.
  • Each branch or line 32, 34 is connected to its respective reservoir 22, 24 to supply the same with compressed air. If the device 36 is at a potential near ground potential, the lines 32, 34 must be insulating and are therefore embodied by conventional hollow insulators.
  • the device 36 to which the lines 30, 32, 34 are connected is embodied by a cylinder 38 in which a piston 40 can move; the same co-operates with each end 42, 44 of the cylinder 38 to bound two chambers 46, 48 which are in permanent communication via a channel 33 with line 30.
  • Chamber 46 communicates with line 32 via an orifice 50 with which cylinder end 42 is formed and which serves as a seat 52 of a valve whose moving member (lid) 54 is rigidly secured to piston 40.
  • chamber 48 communicates with line 34 via an orifice 56 which serves as a valve seat 58, the moving member (lid) 60 of the valve being on the opposite surface of the piston 40.
  • the piston 40 is extended at each end by rods 62, 64 which project outside the cylinder 38 and which are adapted to operate position detectors 66, 68 respectively shown by way of example as ordinary contacts which are operated when the piston 40 is in a position such as to close either the orifice 50 or the orifice 56. In the normal operating position shown in FIG. 2, the two detector contacts 66, 68 and the lids 54, 60 are all open.
  • the safety device according to the invention operates as follows:
  • the reservoirs 22, 24 are supplied with compressed air through the lines 30, 32, 34 when the piston 40 is in the central position shown in FIG. 2.
  • the piston experiences the pressures in the chambers 46, 48 and the force of the springs 61, 63 which, provided that the pressures in the chambers 46, 48 are equal, maintain the piston in its central equilibrium position. If the circuit breaker trips, so that pressure gas is taken from the reservoirs 22, 24, the resulting pressure drop is transmitted to the chambers 46, 48 via the lines 32, 34.
  • the cross-section of the line 30 is too small for instantaneous recharging of the reservoirs 22, 24, but since the installation is symmetrical and the modules 10, 12 operate simultaneously, no appreciable pressure difference of a nature able to move the piston 40 arises between the chambers 46 and 48.
  • the valves 54, 60 therefore stay open and the reservoirs 22, 24 recharge normally.
  • the conventional protective devices (not shown) of the faulty module 12 detect the event and cause the corresponding interlocks to operate so that, for instance, there can be no actuation of the faulty module 12.
  • the cutting out of circuit of the module 12 is indicated by closure of the contact 68 by the rod 64, which moved with the piston 40, some sort of warning device being actuated.
  • the safety device according to the invention is .operated by any appreciable pressure difference l is in FIG. 2 associated with each pair of modules. If the number of modules is odd, for instance, if there are three modules 10, 12 and 70 as shown in FIG. 3, two safety devices 36, 36' are used.
  • the device 36 is associated with the modules 10 and 12 in the manner hereinbefore described and the device 36' is associated with the module 70.
  • line 34' supplies the reservoir of module 70 and the other line of device 36' communicates with a buffer reservoir 72.
  • the two devices 36, 36' are connected to the line 30, for instance, by a branch.
  • the pressure in the reservoir 72 which forms a dead volume, provides a reference value with which the pressure in the module 70 is continuously compared in the manner hereinbefore described. Any abrupt pressure drop, for instance, because of a leakage in module 70, operates the safety device 36', the piston thereof moving in the direction for closing the line 34'.
  • the whole system is devised to preclude any accidental closure of the line 34' in normal operation, for instance, during the pressure drop following upon an opening of the module 70.
  • a multi-break gas blast circuit interrupter of the type comprising per pole a plurality of serially arranged interrupting sections, at least a pair of compressed gas storage tanks supplying said interrupting sections with compressed gas, and a pair of gas supply conduits respectively connecting said pair of storage tanks to a common source of compressed gas; differential valve means inserted between said gas supply conduits and said source, said valve means being responsive to the pressure differential of said gassupply conduits and adapted to interrupt the compressed gas flow from said source to the lower pressure one of said storage tanks when said pressure differential exceeds a predetermined value.
  • a differential valve adapted for connecting a pair of gas supply conduits to a common source of compressed gas, comprising a valve body defining a cylindrical pressure chamber, a pair of opposed outlets for said chamber adapted for connection to said gas supply conduits, respectively, an inlet for said chamber a apted for connection to said common source, a p air o va ve seats, one for each outlet, a piston adapte or reciprocating sliding movement in said chamber, a pair of opposed valve members secured to said piston and cooperating with said valve seats, respectively, and arranged to close said outlets selectively in response to said sliding movement of said piston, and bias means to maintain said piston normally in an intermediate position in said chamber causing opposed faces of said piston to be in pressure relation with said gas supply conduits, respectively, whereby a pressure differential in said gas supply conduits exceeding a predetermined value causes said piston to apply the valve member associated with the lower pressure gas supply conduit against the associated valve seat interrupting the compressed gas flow from said source to said lower pressure conduit.
  • said bias means comprising a pair of springs acting between said piston and said valve body.
  • a gas supply and security system for use with a gas blast circuit interrupter having a pair of compressed gas storage tanks supplied by a common source of compressed gas, said system comprising differential valve means in fluid communication with said common source, and a pair of gas supply conduits connecting said differential valve means to said storage tanks, respectively, said valve means being responsive to the pressure differential of said gas supply conduits and adapted to provide normally a free fluid communication between said storage tanks and said common source and to interrupt the compressed gas communication between said source and the storage tank having the lower pressure when said pressure differential exceeds a predetermined value.
  • valve means comprising a control piston having opposed faces normally in pressure relation with said gas supply conduits, respectively, bias means maintaining said piston in an intermediate normal position, and a pair of valve means operatively connected to said piston and adapted to selectively interrupt the compressed gas flow from said source to said gas supply conduits in response to sliding movement of said piston.

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