Fundamentals of interruption in vacuum. Eleventh progress report

Technical Report · Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5199468· OSTI ID:5199468

Greenwood, A. N.; Sullivan, J. S.

During the past three months effort has concentrated on formulating a method to predict the enhancement of electrode surface field and power input occasioned by the presence of a projection on the electrode surface, during the ion sheath development period which attends the scavenging a contact gap following current interruption in vacuum. In addition, experimental evidence has been obtained to support the theory, postulated earlier, of a turn-around interval for electrons left in the gap, which preceeds the rise of the transient recovery voltage.

• Research Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (USA). Center for Electric Power Engineering
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-78ET29197
• OSTI ID: 5199468
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/29197-11; ON: DE82016236
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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