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    HV tranmission line and substation design to oil & gas industry

    Frankly speaking, your experience will be quite useful in Oil & Gas, provided you choose to work in a firm which executes bigger projects ($2 billion and up). Such plants require extensive system studies, higher voltages and stuff that you would be conversant with. Relay coordination, Arc Flash...
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    Low Voltage Cables Sized Based on Short Circuits

    Very basic calculations with fault currents available at bus, with subsequent impedance of the length of cable, reveals that fault currents fall to negligible values at the end of the cable. Here the premise is that if the cable routing has followed the proper codes/specs, it will be a well...
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    Distribution voltage drop over distance

    eengK..do you have taps from this o/h line for various loads? Then the voltage drop calculations get a bit tricky..the last section near the source carries current i1+i2+i3+..+in. For the next section the line carries i2+i3+..+in..if the first tap withdraws i1 current. I had a spreadsheet which...
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    Cable Short Circuit Withstand Capacity

    In low voltage, short circuit is seldom the factor for selection of cable sizes. It is always the ampacity & voltage drop which rules the roost. Usually the impedance of the cable is good enough to drop the short circuit values to very low values within a few mts from the MCC / LV bus. Also, the...
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    Will the load contribute to the SC damage damage of the cable

    One factor to remember is that if it is a motor load, a running motor will convert the running kinetic energy to electrical energy and feed power back to the fault. A thumbrule for motor contribution to a line fault is 4 times the FLA of the motor. Thus besides the initial temp of the cable...
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    Lead Acid Batteries

    Some battery vendors have Battery monitoring system which monitor the Battery Internal resistances and give online values, which can be easily accessed. I had seen the results in one of the Battery vendor's presentations and I liked the graphics. As far as Battery warranty goes, it is one of...
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    substation battery system 120 voltage

    The tolerance on DC bus voltage is usually 90V to 140V. Now , as correctly specified by DLynn, 2.25V/cell is the correct float voltage. Now 125VDC is the 'nominal voltage' whereas 135VDC is the actual float voltage. You should be more worried of the end cell voltage which typically is 1.75V/cell...
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    6000A circuit breaker at 480V LVPCB

    2.5MVA Xmer with LV secondary is like skimming the limits..both operating current and short ckt current will be difficult to address.
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    Limiting inrush current

    FSCK..I did some study on Xmer inrush which depends much more on factors like remnant flux from earlier energization, core dimensions etc. It is an inherent nature of that particular Xmer and can be worse when the switching takes place at Voltage zero. X/R ratio is not that important (unlike in...
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    Shield Voltage Calculation for 25kV

    Thanks alehman & 7anoter4..I shall go through the literature and let you know what I get..Thanks again!
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    Shield Voltage Calculation for 25kV

    I wanted to know if anybody has carried out calculations for a. Floating voltage b. Circulating current & c.Shield loss per unit length...for 25kV, 3C, cable with core shields ungrounded at one end / grounded at both ends. Interestingly, some relevant sections in IEEE 525-2007 have been removed...
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    Picking Data from different Data Sheets

    Hi Xnuke..I agree with you..but there are some restrictions in the ways that we employ methods is a normal EPC project..Our motor data sheets are all in Excel. Each one has a seperate document number which is closely linked with the motor Tag no. If anybody can help in getting Vlookup working...
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    Reclassification by Ventilation

    Well JLSegull..by definition, "adequate ventilation" is that which is sufficient to prevent accumulation of significant qts .....Now to prove this, we will have to carry out fugitive emmission calcs...if the volume of the enclosed space is large enough, and fugitive emission rate is small...
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    Picking Data from different Data Sheets

    I was thinking of simple Vlookup, with the path of the file for search purpose..but I was not succesful...the layout is consistent, but unortunately because of insertion of rows, the cell nos may not be identical for the same piece of info..say speed/HPrating/No of poles etc....
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    Generate Data sheets from Template

    I must say thanks to all of you..the Macro works..and it should be a very useful tool, if Data sheets with say 95% generic data and remaining custized data is required to be generated.

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