A review study on various types of circuit breaker and its application

The generation, transmission, distribution, and substation are all parts of the power system. All power system components need appropriate protection devices as part of the protection system to safeguard the system in the event of a failure. The circuit breaker has been chosen as one of the protective devices in many applications in this article. Oil circuit breakers (OCB), air circuit breakers (ACB), sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) circuit breakers, vacuum circuit breakers, and DC breakers (hybrid DC breaker and solid-state DC breaker) are among the circuit breakers discussed in this article. Normally, the failure disrupts or damages the systems or circuits. The kind of faults and causes of faults must be understood in order to install a protective system in the system or circuit. The substation is required to regulate the voltage transferred at high voltage from the producing station in order to deliver the appropriate voltage to the consumer. A substation must also include a protection system.