29th 30th October 2013, Rodrigo Morales

MNS Systems Workshop 2013

MNS-SG Technical Description
 MNS-SG

Arc Flash
Industry Standards/Markets
Arc Resistant Features
Equipment Ratings
Mechanical Overview
Electrical Overview
Arc Flash Mitigation
Arc Mitigation

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Industry Standards
MNS-SG Switchgear is designed, tested, and constructed to meet/exceed these standards:
UL 1558 Metal-Enclosed Low Voltage Power Circuit Breaker Switchgear
ANSI C37.20.1 IEEE Standard for Metal-Enclosed Low Voltage Power Circuit Breaker
Switchgear
ANSI C37.20.7 ---- IEEE Guide for Testing Metal-Enclosed Switchgear Rated Up to 38kv
for Internal Arcing Faults
ANSI C37.50 Test Procedure for Low Voltage AC Power Circuit Breakers Used in
Enclosures
ANSI C37.51 Conformance Testing of Metal-Enclosed Low Voltage AC Power Circuit
Breaker Switchgear Assemblies
Seismic Qualification to IBC-2009 and ASCE7-10
Emax Circuit Breaker is designed, tested, and constructed to meet/exceed these standards:
ANSI C37.13 Low Voltage AC Power Circuit Breakers Used in Enclosures
ANSI C37.16 Preferred Ratings, Related Requirements, and Application for Low Voltage Power
Circuit Breakers and AC Power Circuit Protectors
ANSI C37.17 Trip Devices for AC and General Purpose DC Low-Voltage Power Circuit Breakers
UL1066 Low Voltage AC and DC Power Circuit Breakers Used in Enclosures

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Market Segments
The MNS-SG is designed to meet the most
stringent industry requirements in the
following markets:
Oil and Gas
Mining and Metals
Utilities
Utility and co-generation
Steel Mill
Pharmaceutical
Waste Water Oil and gas
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Power Generation
Food and Beverage
Aerospace
Critical Power and Data Centers
Industrial facilities
Pulp and Paper

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 Equipment Ratings
Rated continuous current 1600, 2000, 3200, 4000A, 5000A
Rated tested maximum voltage (Arc Resistant) 254Vac, 508Vac

Rated voltage (Arc Resistant) 240Vac, 480Vac

Rated tested maximum voltage (Non Arc Resistant) 254Vac, 508Vac, 635Vac

Rated voltage (Non Arc Resistant) 240Vac, 480Vac, 600Vac

Phases 3 phase 3 wire, 3 phase 4 wire
Neutral (when required on 4Wire Systems) 100% rated

Frequency 60 Hz
Short circuit current withstand at 480Vac up to 100ka

Short circuit current withstand at 600Vac Non Arc up to 85kA

Resistant
Bus Bracing up to 100ka @ 480v, up to 85ka @ 600V

Enclosure Rating (Arc Resistant) NEMA 1

Enclosure Rating (Non Arc Resistant) NEMA 1 (with and without Gasketing)
Seismic Ratings IBC2009, ASCE7-10

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Mechanical Overview
Roof Flaps

Rear Ventilation Flaps

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Mechanical Overview-Dimensions
Width- 23.6 (600mm), 27.6 (700mm,
31.5 (800mm), 39.4 (1000mm)
Depth- 70.87 (1800mm)
Height-
Arc-Resistant (top of chimney)
96.1 (2439.7mm)
Arc-Resistant w/overhead lifting
device 99.4 (2524mm)
Arc-Resistant (top of plenum)
122.1 (3100.5mm)

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Mechanical Overview- Frame
Heavy duty Galvanized C Channel Steel Profile used for all framing
structure
Exterior sheet metal is 12 or 14 Gauge Galvanized Painted Steel
Interior parts are 11 to 14 Gauge Galvanized Steel or Glastic

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Mechanical Overview- Roof Chimney
Roof chimney flaps automatically open to safely exhaust pressure
and gasses independent of the arc origination point inside the
switchgear

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Mechanical Overview- Rear Flaps
Design uses Rear Flaps for:
Additional ventilation for Thermal Cooling
Automatically seals gases and pressure inside the equipment during Arc Fault
Operator Safety by channeling the gasses away from outside enclosure
Additional protection of operation and surrounding equipment during Arc Fault
Flaps can be opened/closed from the outside of the equipment

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Mechanical Overview- Door Mechanisms
Enhanced (3) point latches are provided on front
Optional Rear Door
doors as standard
Mechanism
Top/Bottom horizontal wireways have 180 degree
locking latching mechanism
Optional rear doors have (3) point latching
mechanism

Front Door Mechanism

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Mechanical Overview- Floor Plate

Floor plate is 14 Gauge Galvanized Steel construction

Floor plate with Control Conduit cover Floor plate with Power Conduit cover

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Mechanical Overview- Bus Compartment
Bus phasing is N A B C top to bottom
Main distribution bus ampacity is up to 5000A with bus bracing up to 100kA
Vertical distribution bus ampacity is up to 5000A with bus bracing up to 100kA
Non-insulated bus is silver plated with optional tin-plating available
Main bus Splice Plate that slides into final assembly position

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Mechanical Overview-Cable Compartment

Mechanical and Compression Lugs

Available

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Mechanical Overview- Barriers
Galvanized Steel and Glastic Barriers
separating Main Bus compartment
from cable compartment
Vertical Galvanized Steel Barriers
separating cable compartment
sections

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Mechanical Overview- Grounding
Ground bus bar is available with silver,
tin, bare plating
Door Ground Strap

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Mechanical Overview- Plenum
The optional plenum collects and contains the
exhaust pressure and gasses for safe
channeling to a designated area
The direction of the outlet flap can be
specified by the customer

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Electrical Overview- Wiring

As a standard, all control wiring is #14 AWG SIS

Control wire for current transformers is #10 AWG SIS
Potential transformers are #12 AWG

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Electrical Overview- Wireway
Wireway are location at the top, bottom
and vertically within a section
The top wireway is 4 (100mm) high
The bottom wireway is 6 (150mm) high
Wireway doors are hinged and secured
with quarter-turn latches

Pic of vertical wireway

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 Electrical Overview- Emax Power Circuit Breaker
1. Trademark, size of CB
2. Trip unit
3. PB for manual opening
4. PB for manual closing
5. Lever to manually charge
closing spring
6. Label with electrical
characteristics
7. Mechanical device to signal
CB open O and Closed I
8. Signal for springs charged
or discharged
9. Mechanical indication of trip
10. Key lock in open position
11. Key lock and padlock in
racking-in, racking-out position
12. Racking-in, racking-out device
13. Terminal box
14. Sliding contacts
15. CB position indicator

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 Electrical Overview- Emax Cradle

1 Sheet steel supporting structure

2 Single Grounding pilers mounted on the
left for E1, E2, and E3 double grounding
pilers for E4 and E6
3 Automatic Safety shutters
4 Terminal support base
5 Terminals
6 Contacts signaling that the circuit breaker
is connected, isolated for test, racked-out
7 Sliding contacts
8 Padlock device for safety shutters
9 Fixing points (4 for E1, E2, E3, and 6 for
E4, E6)

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 Electrical Overview- Emax Trip Units

PR121
Protection Features Only
PR122
Protection Features
LCD Display
Current Measurement
Contact Wear
Communications option
PR123
PR122 Features
Harmonic Measurements
Communications option

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 Electrical Overview- Instrumentation

Indicating Lights
Volt, amp, and watt meters
Control switches
Multifunction Metering
Solid-state Relays
Surge Protectors
Test Switches

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 Electrical Overview- Transfer Scheme

Main-Tie-Main transfer
scheme (open transition)
Relay controlled
Kirk Key Interlock

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 Electrical Overview- Communications
Modbus (Standard)
Profibus
DeviceNet
Ethernet

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 Arc Mitigation

Maintenance Switch
Provides option to dial
down to a lower
instantaneous setting on
trip unit for performing
instantaneous

REA Relay Arc Flash System

Detects an arc anywhere in
the bus compartment and
cable compartment utilizing
long-fiber sensor system,
tripping upstream main
breaker in order to provide
minimal damage to
equipment

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Arc Mitigation

Infrared Windows
IR cameras are used for thermal
scanning of connections
Minimizes the exposure to live
conductors
Quantity and location of the IR
windows are dependent breaker
stacking arrangement

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Local solutions

Low Voltage Switchgear must common Integrations

GE Multilin Relays (C60s , SR750, SR 760 , PQM II, Multilin F35..)

High Resistance Grounding systems (post glover, Startcoetc..)

MNS-MCC and MNS-SG Bus Transition Sections

Customized coupling bus sections

Customized Bus duct incoming

Customized Transfer Schemes

Many more

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