51. Equivalent Formulas for Determining Incident Heat Energy for Various Fault Currents and Clearing Times used in NESC and OSHA Regulations: Copyright Material IEEE Paper No. ESW2021-17
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Zarheer Jooma, Marcia L. Eblen, and Tom Short
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Set (abstract data type) ,Engineering ,Computer program ,business.industry ,Electrical engineering ,Range (statistics) ,Envelope (mathematics) ,Fault (power engineering) ,business ,nesC ,Power (physics) ,Voltage - Abstract
OSHA §1910.269 Appendix E ‘Table 6’- Incident Heat Energy for Various Fault Currents, Clearing Times, and Voltages of 4.0 to 46kV: Rubber Insulating Glove Exposures Involving Phase-to-Ground Arcs in Open Air ONLY and ‘Table 7’- Incident Heat Energy for Various Fault Currents, Clearing Times, and Voltages: Live-line Tool Exposures involving Phase-to-Ground Arcs in Open Air ONLY and NESC-2012 Tables ‘410-2’ Clothing and Clothing Systems -voltage, fault current and maximum clearing time for voltages 1.1kV to 46kV and ‘410-3’ Live-line Tool Work Clothing and Clothing Systems - voltage, fault current and maximum clearing time for voltages 46.1kV to 800kV were developed using a commercially available computer program. However, the table values are only provided for a few discrete available fault current values. By reproducing the inputs and outputs using the same version of the commercially available software, values for more than those few discrete available fault currents can be produced. Equivalent power formulas can then be developed that will conservatively envelope all the incident energy values for a complete range of available fault currents for each given set of conditions. This provides simplification and ease of use for end users.
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- 2021