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LV Power Cables routing in Substation

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Mar 2, 2022
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From an LV Switchgear, we are feeding to 3 LV PMCCs through Single-Core cables (PMCC A - 2 Runs of 4x1Cx300Sqmm + E, PMCC-B 3 Runs of 4x1Cx300Sqmm+E and PMCC C - 7 Runs of 4x1Cx300Sqmm+E). All these cables are running less than 40m within Substation. If I put them in a Trefoil arrangement it needs lots of trays. Can I route two layers of these single-core cables in a tray without spacing? or Do I need to always run in Trefoil arrangement with spacing? Please advise.

Also please advise is it okay to have 7Runs (4x1C + E) of Single core cables for PMCC incomer? Thanks.
 
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It is better to run the cables in trefoil formation in order to avoid current unbalancing-if the cables are running in a plane -one beside one- the current unbalance could be up to 30%[that means on phase A-for instance one cable will be 700 A and another 400 A.See the attached article.
 
 https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=ac2262a6-0748-49f2-9721-8809b3b03d12&file=Balance_in_parallel_cables.pdf
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