bacon4life
Electrical
- Feb 4, 2004
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I am trying to check if the general purpose circuit breakers at a substation can withstand the outrush of a capacitor bank. From ANSI c37.06-2000, "The Product of the transient inrush current peak and transient inrush current frequency shall not exceed 2 x 10^7." Does this mean:
2 x 10^7 >= 2* pi * ipk * f (1)
Or:
2 x 10^7 >= ipk * f (2)
IEEE 1036 says that the limit is
ipk*f =V0/(2*pi*L) (3)
which is equivalent to eq. 2. However, the rating is refered to as a maximum rate of rise limitation. Assuming a sinusoidal current, this would simply be the maximum of the derivitive of the current:
I = Ipksin(2 * pi * f * t) (4)
di/dt = Ipk * 2 * pi * f * sin( 2 * pi *f *t) (5)
maxdi/dt = Ipk * 2 * pi * f (6)
Thus giving equation 1.