FAULT ANALYSIS ACCORDING TO STANDARDS BASIC AND TUTORIALS

Industry standards dictate certain analytical techniques that adhere to specific guidelines, suited to address the questions of ac and dc decrement in multimachine systems in compliance with well-established, industry-accepted practices.

They are also closely linked to and harmonize quite well with existing switchgear rating structures. Typical standards are the North American ANSI and IEEE C37 standards and recommended practices the international standard, IEC 60909 (1988) and others, such as the German VDE 0102-1972 and the Australian AS 3851-1991.

The analytical and computational framework in the calculating procedures recommended by these standards remains algebraic and linear, and the calculations are kept tractable by hand for small systems.

The extent of the data base requirements for computer-based solutions is carefully kept to a necessary maximum for the results to be acceptably accurate. This type of analysis represents the best compromise between solution accuracy and simulation simplicity.

The great majority of commercialgrade short-circuit analysis programs fall under this category. In 7.4.1, an outline of ANSI and IEEE standards is presented, while in 7.4.2, the relevant aspects of IEC 60909 (1988) are described. It is not the intent of these subclauses to fully explore and describe in detail all pertinent clauses of either standard.

Instead, a rather brief summary is presented in an effort to make any potential user conscious of the salient aspects of each technique. Because only a brief summary is presented, it is strongly recommended that the standards be consulted for further clarifications and details.

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