6.5.4.2 Contact-parting (Interrupted) Duties for High-Voltage (Above 1 kV, Including Medium-Voltage) Circuit Breaker.

First considered are the duties for comparison with interrupting ratings of circuit breakers rated on the pre-1964 total rms current rating basis. The procedures of ANSI/IEEE C37.5-1979 [3] apply regardless of circuit breaker age. The multiply factor for reactance of rotating machine in the network are obtained from interrupting columns of table 24 and 25. For these interrupting duty calculations, the resistance (R) network is also necessary. In the resistance network each rotary machine resistance value must be multiplied by the same factor as its corresponding reactance multiplier from table 24 Reduce the reactance network to a single equivalent reactance Xpu and reduce the resistance network to a single equivalent resistance Rpu. Determine the X/R ratio by dividing Xpu by Rpu determine Epu, the prefault operating voltage; and determine E/X by dividing Epu by Xpu. Select the multiple factor for E/X correction from curve of figs 101 and 102. To use the curves, it is necessary to know the circuit breakers contact parting time as well as the proximity of generators to the fault point (local remote). Local generator multiplying factors apply only when generators that are predominant contributors to short-circuit current are located in close electrical proximity to the fault as defined in he caption of fig 101 (and Fig 103). Minimum contact parting times are usually used and are defined in the table 26. Multiply Epu/Xpu by multiplying factor and the base current:

This is the calculated total rms current interrupting duty to be compared to the circuit breakers interrupting capability. For older circuits breakers with three phase interrupting ratings in megavoltsampere, to the short-circuit current capability in kA is found by dividing the rating in megavolt-ampere by and by the operating voltage in kV when the voltage is between the rated maximum and minimum limits. Asymmetrical interrupting capability in kA = The minimum-limit voltage calculation applies for lower voltages. Next consider the duties for comparison with the short-circuit (interrupting) capabilities of circuit breakers rated on the post-1964 symmetrical rms current basis. ANSI/IEEE C37.010-1979 [2] procedures apply to calculating duties for these circuit breakers. E/X and the X/R ratio for a given fault point are as already calculated.

Select the multiplying factor for E/X correction from curve Figs 103 and 104. To use the curves, it is necessary to know the circuit breakers contact parting time as well as the proximity of generators to the fault point (local or remote); as before. Multiply Epu/Xpu by multiplying factor and the base current:

The result is an interrupted duty to be compared with the rated symmetrical interrupting capability of a circuit breaker, but it is a symmetrical interrupting duty only if the multiplying factor for E/x is 1.0. The rated symmetrical interrupting capability of the circuit breaker is calculated as follows:

This calculated current shall not exceed the maximum symmetrical interrupting capability listed for the circuit breaker. The calculating procedures described for first-cycle and interrupting networks are different in several respects from procedures detailed in early editions of this publication that were based on standards now superseded. The difference are intended to account more accurately for contribution to highvoltage interrupting duty from large induction motors, for the exponential decay of dc component of short-circuit current, and for the ac decay of contribution from nearby generators.