An effective approach to reducing arc flash hazards in power systems

Author

Xiaodong Liang ; Bagen, Bagen ; Gao, David Wenzhong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Comput. Sci., Dept. of Electr. Eng., Washington State Univ., Vancouver, WA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

5-9 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

The arc flash hazard is related to electrical safety in work place, and has gained much attention as part of the safety program for many facilities. An effective approach to reducing the arc flash hazard in existing industrial and commercial facilities is proposed in this paper. To illustrate the proposed approach and provide quantified results, computer simulation is conducted for a large oil field facility and a manufacturing facility in a commercial building as two case studies. The simulation results from the two case studies show significant reductions on arc flash hazard categories, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Keywords

arcs (electric); buildings (structures); electrical safety; flashover; hazards; petroleum industry; production facilities; arc flash hazard reduction; commercial building; electrical safety; manufacturing facility; oil field facility; power systems; Arc discharges; Computer simulation; Fault currents; Hazards; Relays; Switches; Arc Flash Hazard Analysis; Hazard Category; Incident Energy; Protective Device Coordination Study;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2014.6978481

Filename

6978481