Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Glossary
11
527
Glossary
11 Glossary
A
Air circuit-breaker
Air-insulated
outdoor switchyards
of open design (AIS)
Ambient air
temperature
Auto-reclosing (of a
mechanical
switching device)
B
Backup protection
Blackout
Breaking operation
Breaking capacity
Busbar
Busbar trunking
system
Extended enclosed busbars, equipped with t apoff points for supplying machines and other
loads with power via variable tap-off units.
Bushing
Circuit-breaker
Common
Information Model
(CIM)
Contactor
Load breaking device with a limited shortcircuit making or breaking capacity, used for
high switching rates.
Continuous Function
Chart (CFC)
Current limiting
Current-limiting
circuit-breaker
Current transducer
Current transformer
(CT)
D
DCF77
Dead-tank circuitbreaker
Design verified
assembly
C
Capacitor voltage
transformer (CVT)
11
528
CAPEX
Continuous
Improvement
Process (CIP)
> Kaizen.
Glossary
Dielectric strength
Demilitarized zone
(DMZ)
Disconnector
(isolator)
Distributed
generation units
E
Ear and Mouth
(E&M)
Earth fault
Earthing switch
ECR glass
Fuse
G
Gas-insulated
switchgear (GIS)
Gas-insulated
transmission line
(GIL)
Generic Interface
Definition (GID)
Grid-connected
photovoltaic system
H
Harmonics
High voltage
HTTP/HTTPS
F
Feeder
Flexible AC
transmission system
(FACTS)
I
Incoming feeder
Instrument
transformer
11
529
Glossary
Inter-Control Center
Communications
Protocol (ICCP)
Insulated gate
bipolar transistor
(IGBT)
Inter-Range
Istrumentation
Group time codes
(IRIG)
IT system
J
K
Kaizen
Konnex (KNX)
N-tripping
Open DataBase
Connectivity (ODBC)
Operating voltage
(in a system)
Operational
expenditure (OPEX)
OSCOP P
Open Systems
Interconnection
Basic Reference
Model (OSI)
Outgoing feeder
Live-tank circuitbreaker
Overcurrent
Overload
L-tripping
Overload protection.
Medium voltage
(MV)
Metal-oxide varistor
(MOV)
530
Link Capacity
Adjustment Scheme
(LCAS)
11
Neutral conductor
(N)
Private Automatic
Branch Exchange
(PABX)
Pulse-code
modulation (PCM)
Plesiochrone digital
hierarchy (PDH)
PE conductor
Glossary
Phase-shifting
transformer
(Photovoltaik) peak
watt
PEN (conductor)
Potential
transformer (PT)
Python
Ring-main unit
(RMU)
Resistance
temperature device/
detector (RTD)
Remote terminal
unit (RTU)
Q
S
R
Rated breaking
capacity
Rated breaking
current
Rated current
Rated insulation
level
Rated peak
withstand current
The peak value of the major loop of the shortcircuit current during a compensation process
after the beginning of the current flow, which
the device can carry in closed state.
Switch-disconnector
Switch-disconnector/
fuse (SDF)
Synchronous Digital
Hierarchy (SDH)
Selectivity
Series reactor
Sequential Function
Chart (SFC)
Short circuit
Short-circuit current
Rated short-circuit
breaking current
Rated short-circuit
making current
Rated voltage
Short-circuit
strength
Release (of a
mechanical
switching device)
Shunt release
Shunt reactor
Residual current
Single-line diagram
(SLD)
A simplified notation for representing a threephase power system in which the polyphase
links are represented by their equivalent single
line.
Residual-current
device (RCB)
11
531
Glossary
Smart Grid
SNCP
Simple Network
Management
Protocol (SNMP)
Total harmonic
distortion (THD)
Transformer
substation
Transient
overvoltage
SOAP
Synchronous Optical
Network (SONET)
Tripping current
Structured Query
Language (SQL)
TT system
Synchronous
Transport Module
(STM)
S-tripping
Substation
U
Universal Mobile
Telecommunications
System (UMTS)
V
Virtual power plant
(VPP)
Voltage divider
Voltage regulator
Surge arrester
Switch/switching
device
Switch-disconnector
T
Total harmonic
distortion (THD)
11
532
Glossary
Voltage surge
Voltage transducer
Voltage transformer
W
Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (WDM)
Wireless Broadband
(WiBro)
Worldwide
Interoperability for
Microwave Access
(WiMAX)
X
Extensible Markup
Language (XML)
Y
Z
11
533