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Prefabricated Sub Station
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The publication of a new edition of a product standard is For the specific products the temperature-rise test and the
often the opportunity for the customers to revise their tests to assess the effects of internal arc fault remain most
specifications and for the manufacturers of launching new relevant and required. The performances of degree of
products. The type tests list and routine tests required for a protection, mechanical withstand, currents flow in the
HV/LV prefabricated substation will be used as discussion earthing circuits are generally validated by generic tests
thread with a review of the evolutions of the user's needs carried out during the validation of a technology (Doors /
and solutions which are proposed to them. Ventilations / Material / Section and fixing of the earthing
circuits).
The test of the earthing system remains important to verify In addition many of the electricity distribution companies
the mechanical withstand under electrodynamics stresses. would wish to specify IP23D degree privileging natural
Sometimes the over sizing in a customer specification of its cooling but they also wish that the penetration of the wire of
cross section on HV side appears shifted compared to the 1mm should not be limited in length to 100 mm in order to
value of the fault current conditioned by the type of earthing ensure a better safety when it is made use of connections of
of the neutral. transformer not ensuring protection of the people against
In addition some devices for fault current flow to the ground direct contacts to the active parts.
through solid walls must be tested under the real conditions
of use so that it is possible to guarantee the operational Finally the verification of the degree of protection IP5X is
safety, instead of undergoing only type tests the in open air, confronted with a lack of means of tests adapted and in fact
which facilitates heat exchange. The figure 4 shows a dust room of sufficient capacity to receive a complete
successively the product as it must be installed according to HV/LV substation. The alternative used for a
the user guide, the type test of the product alone, the type compartmentalized metallic substation was to test only one
test of the product installed which result is non-conformity. separated compartment.
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Figure 9 shows a test comparable to IPx7 on an [3] T.Cormenier, L.Vieu-Viennet, P.Brun; 2011 CIRED
underground substation where a metallic device was added N477; NEW UNDERGROUND HV/LV
in periphery in order to fill with water all the volume from the PREFABRICATED SUBSTATIONS FOR BETTER
half height of the walls until 30cm above the top of the INTEGRATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT, Frankfurt,
openings (hatches). The purpose was to check the Germany
tightness of these openings.