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Re: Entergy produced during a parting arc
Posted by: mageeelect (IP Logged)
Date: January 06, 2023 07:54PM

There's not enough information given to determine. You are dealing with the subject of "Arc Flash" which even many EE's don't understand fully. The main factors are current, voltage, frequency, short-circuit current available, circuit power factor, type of electrodes, duration of arc, fault clearing time, (to name just a few).

Energy level can range from LOW "Barely enough to detect", such as the spark energy you create by walking across a shag carpet, to HIGH "Infinite", such as the energy in a carbon arc searchlight.

Below is a excerpt from an article from "Electrical Construction and Maintenance" (EC&M) magazine that addresses the topic. This is only given for the purpose of showing what's involved in the calculations.

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Both NFPA 70E and IEEE 1584, “Guide for Performing Arc-Flash Hazard Calculations,” prescribe their own methods of calculation for determining the available arc flash energy at a particular piece of equipment. However, for both methods, typical working distances are given in Table 3 of IEEE 1584-2002.

Calculating arc flash energy
There are two distinct mathematical methods of calculating the available arc flash energy present at a specific piece of equipment — both of which are detailed in Annex D of NFPA 70E.

The first method, commonly referred to as the NFPA 70E equation for an arc flash in a cubic box, is:

EMB = 1038.7 DB-1.4738 × tA [0.0093 F2 0.3453 F + 5.9673]

Where EMB is the arc flash energy, DB is the working distance (from Table 3 of IEEE 1584), tA is the duration of the arc, and F is the short-circuit (or fault) current. This equation uses inches for distance measurements, and gives results directly in calories per centimeter squared (cal/cm2).
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Note: You will need to be able to calculate the Unit Of Measure you want-"Joules" - from the dimension "cal/cm2".

ALLAN MAGEE, PE



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  Entergy produced during a parting arc 444 J L Mazerat 01/06/2023 05:00PM
  Re: Entergy produced during a parting arc 343 mageeelect 01/06/2023 07:54PM
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