What are TCC curves?

What are TCC curves?

A time current curve (TCC) plots the interrupting time of an overcurrent device based on a given current level. These curves are provided by the manufacturers of electrical overcurrent interrupting devices such as fuses and circuit breakers.

What is a protection coordination study?

What is Protection Coordination Study? The electrical protection coordination study is a study or analysis to determine the setting of protection relay and circuit breaker. Its main purpose is to obtain an optimal compromise between protection and selectivity.

How do you read TCC?

A TCC is plotted on a logarithmic scale so that all values of current and time are easily incorporated. For example: in a system, a minimum fault of 100 A should be cleared within 10 s and for a system with a maximum fault of 5000 A it must be cleared within 50 ms.

What is the purpose of protection coordination?

The purpose of the protection coordination study is to verify that the various protection devices in your system, relays, breakers, fuses, etc. are coordinated correctly and are sized appropriately for the equipment that they are protecting.

What is a damage curve?

Damage curves are defined in the IEEE standards in per unit on the nominal base rating (kVA) of the transformer, and are not adjusted with changes to the core, winding material or method of cooling.

Is arc flash study same as short circuit study?

Unlike short circuit studies where we are concerned with the maximum available fault current with arc-flash studies we are really concerned with all possible available fault currents. In many cases the highest incident energy levels are produced by the scenario that produces the lowest available fault current.

How do you perform an arc flash study?

The steps for a competent Arc Flash Study.

1. Step 1: Data Collection. Qualified staff must gather data from all applicable electrical equipment.
2. Step 2: Power System Modeling.
3. Step 3: Short Circuit Study.
4. Step 4: Protective Device Coordination.
5. Step 5: Arc Flash Calculations.
6. Step 6: Reporting.
7. Step 7: Label Installation.

What is a thermal damage curve?

A Thermal Damage Curve is available upon request and this provides details of the alternator’s capability to provide steady state levels of overload out to transient fault clearing current levels displayed against allowable time. The decrement curve displays fault current levels from time zero out to 10 seconds.

What is the significance of time current curves for power Protection coordination?

Studies are required for protecting the crucial power system equipment. Selective and protection coordination is done with the help of Time Current Curves (TCCs). This article discusses the significance of power protection coordination and how time current cufrves are used for the purpose of selective coordination.

How to achieve selective coordination of protective devices?

Hence, by adjusting and rearranging the time current curves of protective devices such that their settings or curves have minimum or no overlapping, selective coordination can be achieved.

What is protective coordination?

What is protective coordination? It’s the selection, arrangement, installation, and maintenance of protective devices to limit the effects of an overcurrent (short-circuit) situation to the smallest area. Protective coordination requires modeling the entire electrical network.

What is the importance of curves in power system engineering?

The curves allow the power system engineer to graphically represent the selective coordination of overcurrent devices in an electrical system.