ARC Flash Hazard Analysis and Mitigation

by J. C. Das

Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
ISBN: 1118163818

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Book Description

Arc Flash Hazard Analysis and Mitigation is the first book to focus specifically on arc flash hazards and provide the latest methodologies for its analysis as well as practical mitigation techniques.

Up-to-date analysis methodologies and practical mitigation for a major electrical safety concern

Consisting of sixteen chapters, this fully up-to-date handbook covers all aspects of arc flash hazard calculations and mitigation. It addresses the calculations of short circuits, protective relaying, and varied electrical systems configurations in electrical power systems. It also examines protection systems, including differential relays, arc flash sensing relays, protective relaying coordination, current transformer operation and saturation, and applications to major electrical equipment from the arc flash point of view. Current technologies and strategies for arc flash mitigation are explored. Using the methodology, analysis, and preventive measures discussed in the book, the arc flash hazard incident energy can be reduced to 8 cal/cm2 or less for the new and existing electrical distribution systems.

This powerful resource:

• Features the most up-to-date arc flash analysis methodologies
• Presents arc flash hazard calculations in dc systems
• Supplies practical examples and case studies
• Provides end-of-chapter reviews and questions
• Includes a Foreword written by Lanny Floyd, a world-renowned leader in electrical safety who is DuPont's Principal Consultant on Electrical Safety and Technology

Arc Flash Hazard Analysis and Mitigation is a must-have guide for electrical engineers engaged in design, operation, and maintenance, consulting engineers, facility managers, and safety professionals.

Book Reviews

"J.C. Das has researched this body of knowledge and brought together innovative ideas and practical concepts with abundant references and real world case studies in arc flash analysis and mitigation. For the first time, design engineers, facility managers, safety professionals and operating and maintenance personnel have a common comprehensive reference for prevention methods." - From Foreword to the Book by Lenny Floyd, nationally and internationally recognized safety expert.

“If you need to perform arc flash hazard calculations, then this book will not only give you the equations and background necessary to obtain the correct classification, but it will also provide an understanding of how these equations were derived and their limitations.” - (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, 1 March 2013)

Customer Reviews

This book is a good book for electrical, fire and protection engineers. It is easy to understand for calculation of ARC Flash fault current and setting the protective relays. It is written by an author that he has over more experience in Power Systems. It has explained detailed beginning of ARC flash calculation, involving Standards, the protective relays settings and co-ordination until trends of the protective relays.

This book is one of its kinds and there is no other parallel book in the market. I have found it very useful to understand arc flash hazard, a subject much confused in the recent times.

The book provides practical ideas of limiting the arc flash hazard with innovations in system designs and protections and speaks of the immense experience of the author on this subject.

Being heavily involved in industrial power distribution systems, I found it a state of the art book, with many case studies and calculations of arc flash hazard in a number of practical system configurations. The refrence had very useful data, discussions and technical information on the innovations going on in the industry, like zone interlocking, coordination of protective devices instantaneous basis, microprocessor based technologies applied to protective relays, arc flash detection systems and the like.

The chapters on arc flash hazard calculations on dc systems is interesting--I believe there is no equivalent research work done in this aspect and also the last chapter 16 on application of Ethernet and IEC 61850 communications for pooling the vast data.

I agree with the comments of Lanny Floyd, Fellow of IEEE, who is nationally and internationally known expert in safety. In his Foreword to the book he writes: "J.C. Das has researched this body of knowledge and brought together innovative ideas and practical concepts with abundant references and real world case studies in arc flash analysis and mitigation.

For the first time, design engineers, facility managers, safety professionals and operating and maintenance personnel have a common comprehensive reference for prevention methods." I absolutely recommend this book to anyone engaged in arc flash hazard analyses and mitigation.