Discharge devices capacitors

Whenever frequent swilehings are likely, high transient voltages may develop and harm the motor windings and the capacitors. Fast discharge facilities must be provided across the capacitor terminals to damp such transients quickly. Sec Section 25.7. for more details on discharge devices. 

In rapidly changing loads it must be ensured that enough discharged capacitors are available in tbe circuit on every close command. To achieve this, sometimes it may be necessary to provide special discharge devices (Section 25.7) across the capacitor terminals or a few extra capacitor units to keep them ready for the next switching. It may require a system study on the pattern of load variations... 

Determine the discharge device for the discharge of a three-phase 6.6 kV, 50 Hz, 1000 kVAr, yconnected capacitor bank, connected in units of 10 x 100 kVAr each, through an automatic p.f. correction relay, having a closing cycle of 10 seconds. Data available from the capacitor manufacturer,... 

This is required to determine the suitability of the resistance of the discharge device to ensure that it discharges a charged capacitor unit or bank at to... 

V or less in 1 minute in LT and in 10 minutes in HT shunt capacitor units or banks and in 5 minutes in series capacitors. The arrangements of discharge devices are illustrated in Figure 25.8. ... 

The use of inadiation or electron bombardment offers an alternative approach to molecular dissociation to the use of elevated temperamres, and offers a number of practical advantages. Intensive sources of radiation in the visible and near-visible are produced by flash photolysis, in which a bank of electrical capacitors is discharged tlrrough an inert gas such as ktypton to produce up to 10 joule for a period of about 10 " s, or by the use of high power laser beams (Eastham, 1986 (loc.cit.)). A more sustainable source of radiation is obtained from electrical discharge devices usually incorporating... 

In the second type of supercapacitor, sometimes termed pseudocapacitors, redox capacitors or electrochemical capacitors, the non-Faradaic doublelayer charging process is accompanied by charge transfer. This Faradaic process must be characterized by extremely fast kinetics in order to allow device operation with high current density discharge pulses. 

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