Type PMI, 242 kV, up to 80 kA
Power Circuit Breaker
With a large installed base and proven track record, the PMI
breaker offers unequalled performance and reliability.
ABB advantages
- Interrupting performance through 80 kA
- High performance interrupters in a definite purpose breaker
reduce potential for overvoltages caused by restrikes during
capacitor bank switching
- One-piece interrupter assembly simplifies field change-out
whenever end of life is reached by eliminating need for internal
tank mounting of separate parts and alignment
- Fully integrated spring-hydraulic operating mechanisms are self-
lubricating and self-damping. They are also hermetically sealed
to the atmosphere, which eliminates corrosion and helps provide
maintenance-free performance with long term stability
- Externally accessible current transformers enables simple field
change-out without degassing breaker and bushing removal
- Extensive range of available field services, from technical
assistance to turn-key installation, can dramatically reduce
construction costs and speed time to commercial operation
Standard features
- Dead tank design, with one 2-cycle puffer interrupter per tank on
a TGIC polyester powdercoat steel frame
- National Board certification of interrupter tanks per the ASME
Pressure Vessel and Boiler Code
- All tanks factory leak tested in a hard-vacuum chamber with a
helium mass spectrometer
- Certified per ANSI C37.04, C37.06, and C37.09 Standards
- Three maintenance-free HMB-4 spring-hydraulic mechanisms
- Frame mounted NEMA-3R steel control cabinet protected with
TGIC polyester powdercoat finish
- Single tank-mounted gas density monitor and pressure gauge
- Porcelain bushings
- Continuous current ratings through 5000 A
- Ships fully assembled and factory tested with 5 psig SF6 gas
(bushings removed for export transit)
Options and accessories
- Switching Control Sentinel (SCS) for reduction of switching
transients
- Condition monitoring with the Circuit Breaker Sentinel (CBS)
- Density monitor and temperature-compensated pressure gauge
directly-mounted on each tank
- Extra creep and/or extra strike bushings for special applications
- Silicone rubber composite bushings
- Tank heaters for operation in ambient temperatures below -30º C
- High seismic designs
HMB 4.0 mechanism
The moving contacts of each pole are independently driven by a type
HMB-4 spring-hydraulic mechanism mounted at an end of each tank.
Mechanical energy is stored in a stack of compression disk springs
and is translated hydraulically to the pole’s operating shaft. Spring
charge is automatically maintained by the operation of a universal
motor and hydraulic pump. Each fully-integrated mechanism is
self-lubricating, hermetically sealed to the atmosphere and weather
protected, affording excellent reliability and long term stability.
 198 1/16” (5031) 23 13/16”
SHIPPING AND INSTALLED WIDTH (605) 150 1/2” (3823)
110 7/16” (2805) MAX. DIMENSION FOR BUSHING REMOVAL
MAX. DIMENSION FOR BUSHING REMOVAL
ADDITIONAL HEIGHT 108 1/4” (2749)
REQUIRED FOR SHIPPING LENGTH

98” (2489) 98” (2489) BUSHING REMOVAL 99 9/16” (2529)

PHASE TO PHASE PHASE TO PHASE
84 13/16” (2155)
METAL TO METAL
85 5/16” (2167)
METAL TO METAL
198 3/4”
(5048)
INSTALLED
HEIGHT
61 7/16” (1560) 222 9/16”
BUSHING STRIKE (5654)
184 1/4” MIN.
(4681) DIMENSION
TOP OF FOR
TERMINAL BUSHING
PAD REMOVAL
AFTER
172 9/16” INSTALLATION

Document Number - 2GNM110056 / December 2009

(4382)
HEIGHT
TO
LIVE
PARTS

162 1/16”
119 7/16” (4116)
(3034) SHIPPING
MINIMUM HEIGHT
BUSHING
HEIGHT

54 1/2”
(1384)
MINI MONITOR
88 3/4”
(2254)
CL OF
BREAKER
38 3/4” 48 7/8”
(984) (1241)
OPERATIONS
BOTTOM
COUNTER
32”
OF (814)
CABINET

57 1/16” (1450)
44 1/16” 145 1/16” (3684)
(1120) 140 1/4” (3562)
CLEARANCE TO REMOVE INTERRUPTER

Rated capabilities
Short Circuit Maximum Power Frequency 2 µ-sec Chopped
Rated Maximum and Short Time Continuous Rated Interrupting Full Wave Insulation Wave Impulse Closing and
Circuit Breaker Voltage Current Current Time Withstand Voltage Withstand Voltage Voltage Latching Current
Type (kV, rms) (kA, rms) (A, rms) (Cycles) (kV, Peak) (kV, rms) (kV, Peak) (kA, Peak)

242PMI40-20 245 40 2000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 104

242PMI40-30 245 40 3000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 104

242PMI40-40 245 40 4000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 104

242PMI40-50 245 40 5000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 104

242PMI50-20 245 50† 2000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 130

242PMI50-30 245 50† 3000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 130

242PMI50-40 245 50† 4000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 130

242PMI50-50 245 50† 5000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 130

242PMI63-20 245 63† 2000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 164

242PMI63-30 245 63† 3000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 164

242PMI63-40 245 63† 4000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 164

242PMI63-50 245 63† 5000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 164

242PMI80-20 245 80‡ 2000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 208

242PMI80-30 245 80‡ 3000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 208

242PMI80-40 245 80‡ 4000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 208

242PMI80-50 245 80‡ 5000 2* 900§ 425§ 1160 208

† 7.5-nF shunt capacitors required for 90% short line fault interrupting performance
‡ 30-nF load-side shunt capacitors required for 90% short line fault interrupting performance, and 15-nF source-side shunt capacitors required for ITRV fault performance
* 3-cycle rated interrupting time alternatively available
§ 1050 kV full wave withstand voltage with 460 kV power frequence withstand rating optionally available

For more information please contact:

ABB Inc.
High Voltage Products
Westmoreland Distribution Park East
100 Distribution Circle
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, USA
Phone: +1 (724) 696-1500
Fax: +1 (724) 696-1502

www.abb.com/highvoltage