| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and systems for controlling and limiting damage caused by arcs in electrical distribution equipment.SOLUTION: The systems provide a cooling assembly that uses a filter or other porous substrate to absorb energy from arc byproducts. The filter-based cooling assembly may be used with a passive arc management device having a chamber sized and shaped to control and/or extinguish arcs and ventilation ports for expelling the arc byproducts into the cooling filter assembly. The filter-based cooling assembly may be installed in line with, at the end of, or as a substitute for, ventilation conduits or ventilation tubes in the arc management device, or installed in the backplane of the arc management device or the like, to absorb energy from the arc byproducts, cool the arc byproducts to a safe temperature, and vent the arc byproducts to the inside of the equipment cabinet.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 |
