A switch-fuse module and a ring main unit. The switch-fuse module includes: a housing having therein a switch enclosure including an insulating gas and a cable compartment that is different and separate from the switch enclosure; at least one switch disconnector arranged within the switch enclosure; and at least one fuse canister with a vertically oriented longitudinal axis; wherein the fuse canister i) is adapted to receive a fuse, and ii) is arranged within the cable compartment, and the insulating gas has a global warming potential less than a global warming potential of SF6.

The present invention relates to the use of a linear octafluorobutene as a dielectric compound in an environmentally safe dielectric-insulation or arc-extinction fluid for an apparatus for the generation, the transmission, the distribution and/or the usage of electrical energy.

The present invention relates to the use of a linear octafluorobutene as a dielectric compound in an environmentally safe dielectric-insulation or arc-extinction fluid for an apparatus for the generation, the transmission, the distribution and/or the usage of electrical energy.

The invention relates to an electric arc-blast nozzle (5) for a circuit breaker comprising a middle portion (7) forming a throat defining internally an axial passage (13) for interrupting an electric arc, and two end portions (9, 11) extending on either side of the middle portion (7) and being designed to receive respective arcing contacts (1) and (3) that are movable axially relative to each other. The middle portion (7) and the two end portions (9, 11) are made of a same dielectric material obtained from a composition comprising a fluorocarbon polymer matrix, at least one inorganic filler and micro-capsules of liquid heptafluoro-iso-butyronitrile. The invention also relates to a circuit breaker including such a nozzle (5).

The present disclosure discloses a liquid arc extinguish chamber for direct current breaking. The liquid arc extinguish chamber for direct current breaking includes a cavity, a fixed contact and a moving contact. A liquid medium is sealed in the cavity. The fixed contact is hermetically fixed in the cavity. One end of the fixed contact is fixed in the cavity, and the other end of the fixed contact is connected with an outlet terminal A1. The moving contact is movably sealed in the cavity. One end of the moving contact may adjacently abut against or be in contact with the fixed contact, and the other end of the moving contact is connected with an outlet terminal A2.

The present disclosure discloses a liquid arc extinguish chamber for direct current breaking. The liquid arc extinguish chamber for direct current breaking includes a cavity, a fixed contact and a moving contact. A liquid medium is sealed in the cavity. The fixed contact is hermetically fixed in the cavity. One end of the fixed contact is fixed in the cavity, and the other end of the fixed contact is connected with an outlet terminal A1. The moving contact is movably sealed in the cavity. One end of the moving contact may adjacently abut against or be in contact with the fixed contact, and the other end of the moving contact is connected with an outlet terminal A2.

A high voltage electric switch includes contacts with graphite carbon electrode forming the arc gap. In addition, the carbon contacts are located in a chamber containing at least 60% carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dielectric gas to achieve improved arc interrupting performance. In conventional switches, the metallic contacts introduce metallic vapors into the arc plasma that inhibits the ability of the dielectric gas to interrupt high voltage, high current arcs. As the element carbon is inherently present in CO2 gas, the addition of vapors from the carbon electrodes into the dielectric gas does not significantly interfere with the dielectric arc-interrupting performance of the CO2 dielectric gas.

A switch-fuse module and a ring main unit. The switch-fuse module includes: a housing having therein a first enclosure including a first insulating gas and a second enclosure including a second insulating gas; at least one switch disconnector arranged within the first enclosure; and at least one fuse at least partially surrounded by the second enclosure; wherein each of the first insulating gas and the second insulating gas has a global warming potential less than a global warming potential of SF6, and the first enclosure is different and separate from the second enclosure.

A switch-fuse module and a ring main unit. The switch-fuse module includes: a housing having therein a switch enclosure including an insulating gas and a cable compartment that is different and separate from the switch enclosure; at least one switch disconnector arranged within the switch enclosure; and at least one fuse canister with a vertically oriented longitudinal axis; wherein the fuse canister i) is adapted to receive a fuse, and ii) is arranged within the cable compartment, and the insulating gas has a global warming potential less than a global warming potential of SF6.

A switch-fuse module and a ring main unit. The switch-fuse module includes: at least one fuse; and at least one fuse canister having the fuse inside; the security device including: at least one slider configured to linearly move between an open slider position and a closed slider position; at least one earthing switch that i) is galvanically connected to an end of the fuse, ii) is operable between an open and a closed state, iii) is designed to earth the end of the fuse in the closed state, and iv) is coupled to the slider in such a manner that the open slider position effects the open state of the earthing switch and the closed slider position effects the closed state of the earthing switch; an energy-storing propulsion element configured to move the earthing switch from the open to the closed state when discharging; and a locking mechanism adapted for blocking access to the fuse in a locked state and for releasing access to the fuse in an unlocked state, wherein the slider is coupled to the locking mechanism in such a manner that the slider is in the closed slider position while the locking mechanism is in the unlocked state, so that the fuse may only be accessed if it is ensured that the fuse is earthed.