Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya

Electrical safety issues in terms of the dangers it poses during faults or insulation breakdowns increases around the world parallel with the rise in the number of electrical switch board installations around the world. High voltage switch boards, particularly, 415 V and above exhibit an arc flash h...

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Main Author:	Perumal, Sivachandran R.
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/47945/25/SivachandranRPerumalMFKE2014.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.479452017-08-09T10:40:47Z Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya 2014-06 Perumal, Sivachandran R. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Electrical safety issues in terms of the dangers it poses during faults or insulation breakdowns increases around the world parallel with the rise in the number of electrical switch board installations around the world. High voltage switch boards, particularly, 415 V and above exhibit an arc flash hazard to operators and facilities. Thus, this project focuses on the electrical quantification on such hazards and how the safety risk is managed by using adequate personal protective equipments (PPE). This is done so by utilizing the classical short circuit analysis approach and employing the IEEE 1584 Standard’s Arc Flash arcing current and hence the energy equations and cross-matched to the rating of the PPEs required for adequate protection and safety. This approach also determines the safe boundary parameter which presents the distance from these equipments where arc flashes don’t reach out. This electrical quantification is done manually using hand-calculations and solidified further using simulation tool namely SKM Power Tool. The simulation is much more in depth for calculation with detail switchboard parameters are input to output the desired results. This effort translates in adequately protecting people and properties from unwanted disasters by enforcing operators to wear proper PPEs during operations or maintenance. Based on the simulations, Hospital Seberang Jaya requires Category 1 and Category 2 levels of PPE. Risk management is done by labeling all the switchboards with their category ratings as a warning signal to anyone passing nearby these switchboards. 2014-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/47945/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/47945/25/SivachandranRPerumalMFKE2014.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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description	Electrical safety issues in terms of the dangers it poses during faults or insulation breakdowns increases around the world parallel with the rise in the number of electrical switch board installations around the world. High voltage switch boards, particularly, 415 V and above exhibit an arc flash hazard to operators and facilities. Thus, this project focuses on the electrical quantification on such hazards and how the safety risk is managed by using adequate personal protective equipments (PPE). This is done so by utilizing the classical short circuit analysis approach and employing the IEEE 1584 Standard’s Arc Flash arcing current and hence the energy equations and cross-matched to the rating of the PPEs required for adequate protection and safety. This approach also determines the safe boundary parameter which presents the distance from these equipments where arc flashes don’t reach out. This electrical quantification is done manually using hand-calculations and solidified further using simulation tool namely SKM Power Tool. The simulation is much more in depth for calculation with detail switchboard parameters are input to output the desired results. This effort translates in adequately protecting people and properties from unwanted disasters by enforcing operators to wear proper PPEs during operations or maintenance. Based on the simulations, Hospital Seberang Jaya requires Category 1 and Category 2 levels of PPE. Risk management is done by labeling all the switchboards with their category ratings as a warning signal to anyone passing nearby these switchboards.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Perumal, Sivachandran R.
author_facet	Perumal, Sivachandran R.
author_sort	Perumal, Sivachandran R.
title	Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya
title_short	Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya
title_full	Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya
title_fullStr	Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya
title_full_unstemmed	Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya
title_sort	electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at hospital seberang jaya
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate	2014
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Electrical arc flash hazard analysis in electrical safety risk management at Hospital Seberang Jaya

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