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    maximum direct burial hv cable depth

    Another consideration needs to be practicality of access in the future for repair if the cable ever goes faulty. Going deeper will increase the cost of excavation and the complexity of the excavation. Consider using conduits. If you are direct burying for rating then an option is to fill the...
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    BVP22 Manual

    Second try with the BVP17 Manual. Regards Marmitehttps://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=f02fa069-bb5d-4923-90b6-62dacaff6067&file=BVP17MET.PDF
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    BVP22 Manual

    Have a look here for your contacts:- https://www.alcomet.net/oil-circuit-breaker-contacts/gec-aei-switchgear-contacts. They list BVP22 as well as BVP17. I don't have the BVP22 manual but I have a BVP17 manual. See link. Isn't it time you got these old things off your system, or at least fit...
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    Anti Condensation Heaters / General Electrical Loads - Medium Voltage Switchgears (PV Plants)

    Switchgear panel heaters are not normally considered essential loads. Protection, SCADA, Comms, Security, emergency lighting and fire systems are essential loads. If you only have battery capacity to sustain essential loads for 2 hours after loss of mains power, then I wouldn't be worrying about...
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    Interconnection wiring diagrams for system integration

    My experience is similar to Scotty's. Manufacturer supplied drawings are provided with a corporate drawing number and CAD border. The drawing number typically has a substation identifier, whether its civil, electrical etc, and whether its a layout or a schematic etc, so you typically want the...
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    Price for Neutral Earthing Resistor

    And another. https://www.cressall.com/neutral-earthing/ Rwgards Marmite
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    ASL and generation

    Probably because the ASL wouldn't necessarily clear the downstream fault, which could be maintained by backfeeding from the generator, or the remaining two live phases. If the generator is connected via a delta star transformer with the delta facing the generator and the star feeding out to the...
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    Mid span standing voltage - solid bonded cables

    There isn't any voltage that is sensible to calculate or measure. It is shunted by the sheath to earth bonds. The issue becomes one of circulating current rather than of voltage.If you really wanted to calculate the voltage between two arbitrary points, calculate the circulating current and the...
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    Bus Phase Sequencing in MV Switchgear

    I've worked in Companies where there are all kinds of legacy system phasing standards. In the UK system phasing uses the colours Red, Yellow and Blue, and by convention you would expect them to correlate with ABC physical terminals, but that isn't necessarily so. It's important that the...
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    MV Cables Shield Grounding

    Has the cable rating study been based on single point bonding? If it has then solidly bonding the installation would potentially derate the cables. For your wind turbine feeder there is likely to be less of an effect because the current must be reasonably low if you are only using 1 cable per...
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    Transformer Protection

    Standby earth fault protection is as RRaghunath described. It is not normally switched in or out of service. Just another example how the same words can mean different things to different people. Broken delta/open delta are other fine examples. SBEF protection is sometimes staged, for example if...
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    Copper Conductors datasheet

    If it's an overhead line it would be hard drawn copper. The rating depends on the design operating temperature of the line, ambient temperature, solar intensity and wind speed. Is it ratings you are looking for, or physical parameters? Regards Marmite
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    Manufacturer of this reactor

    Haefely became Trench. See http://trenchgroup.com/en/Company/Siemens-Ltda.-Brazil Regards Marmite
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    predicting failures of high voltage power cables

    EA Technology in the UK has a range of products that would fit the bill. https://www.eatechnology.com/engineering-products/partial-discharge-solutions/cabledata-collector/ Regards Marmite
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    Active fire fighting for the switchgear room

    I would think that this would be a no brainer if it is indeed a "critical switchgear room on an offshore platform". There is an existing active fire fighting system in place, so someone must have decided at the time that the risk of a fire happening, or the consequences of a fire were so...

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