Mechanical Strength of MV Ship-switchgear During Fault Arc

Abstract

In this paper the analysis of pressure stressed in an enclosure during fault arc inside switchgear is also presented. There is introduced the method based on determining stresses which are the sum of tensile stresses (membrane) and deflection stresses. For tensile stresses analysis the energy method, for unrestrainedly supported rectangular plate, was used. Further in the paper, the calculations and measurements results of enclosure stresses were shown. Dimensions of analyzed enclosure were 0.48 x 0.52. Also, an oscillogram record from laboratory tests was given further in the paper. There were demonstrated the results of calculations of maximum stresses σysum in an enclosure an analyzed cable compartment of marine switchgear during fault arc. In the presented paper the calculation method of pressure and temperature of gases inside MV marine switchgear during fault arc was presented. Simultaneous equation (1) gives a thermodynamic model of processes concurrent to fault arcs inside air insulated switchgear. Simultaneous equation (1) enables calculation of pressure p and temperature T based on average arc power PL. The above mentioned model is particularly useful for analysis of pressure and temperature in switchgears equipped with slots or overpressure reducing canals. Calculated, according to (1), temperature is the average temperature in the area encompassed by the fault arc. Formulating it more strictly; that area is defined by the product of volume V and coefficient c. The method does not count a spatiotemporal distributions of temperature and pressure in the total volume of the compartment.