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Circuit Breaker Induced Switching Transients
Date: Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Location: SRP Information Services Building (ISB), 1600 N Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281
Speaker: Scott Brady, Eaton Electrical Inc.
Topic: "Circuit Breaker Induced Switching Transients"
The presentation will focus on switching transients associated with circuit breakers operation. Recently this phenomenon has been attributed to a significant number of transformer failures involving primary circuit breaker switching. This presentation will review these recent transformer failures due to switching transients to show the severity of damage caused by the voltage surge and discuss the common contributing factors. Several techniques and equipment that have proven to successfully mitigate the switching transients will be reviewed.
Speaker Bio:
Scott Brady is the Western Region Manager for the Technical Application Support group for Eaton Corporation. Scott has worked for Eaton / Westinghouse Electric Corporation for the past 18 years as a field service engineer, service manager, and application engineer. He has co-authored several IEEE papers, technical white papers and was a presenter at the IEEE PCIC Europe Conference in 2006. Scott is a registered professional engineer in Arizona, California and New Mexico.
