11 KV SWITCHGEAR

1. General

This section of specification covers the design, manufacture, assembly, shop

testing/inspection before dispatch, packing, forwarding, transportation to site,
insurance (during transit, storage and erection), storage, erection, supervision, site
testing and commissioning of 11 kV, 3 phase 50 Hz air insulated metal clad
indoor switchgear unit with horizontal draw out circuit breaker at 66/11 kV
Substation.

The scope of supply shall also include necessary special tools and plants required
for erection, maintenance.

The switchgear panel should be complete in all respects with insulators, bimetallic
connectors, interrupting chamber (vacuum circuit breaker), operating mechanisms
control cabinet, interlocks, auxiliary switches indicating devices, supporting
structures, accessories, etc., described herein and briefly listed in the schedule of
requirements. The spares/attachments which are necessary for the smooth
functioning of the equipment and specifically are not mentioned here shall be
assumed to be included the scope of supply.

2. Standards

2.1 The circuit Breaker shall confirm to the latest revision with amendment
available of relevant standards, rules, and code. Some of which are listed herein
for ready reference.

Sl. No. IS IEC Item

1 IS-13118 (1991) IEC-56 Specification of High Voltage AC Circuit
Breaker
  IS-12729 IEC-694 Common clauses for high voltages
switchgear and control control gear
standards
2 IS-2705 (1992)   Current Transformer
3 IS-3156 (1992)   Voltage Transformer
4 IS-3231 (1987)   Relays
5 IS-1248   Ammeter & Voltmeter
6 IS-375   Arrangement of Breaker Busbars main
connection and auxiliary wring
7 CBIP REPORT IEC-687 Static Energy Meter
NO.-88 (JULY)
1996
8 IS-3072   Installation and maintenance of switchgear

9 IS : 9135   Guide for testing of circuit breakers with

respect to out of phase switching
10   IEC : 60 High voltage testing technique
11 IEC-17A Study   Sealing of interrupters/breakers
Group Dec. 1981

12 IS-3427   Metal enclosed Switchgear and Control

gear
13 IS-1554 IEC-227 PVC insulated cables upto and including
1000 volts
14 IS : 5   Colors for ready mixed paints and enamels

15   IEC : 529 Degree of protection

16 IS : 996 IEC-34 Single phase Small AC and universal
electrical motors
17 IS : 2629, 2633 Iso : 1460 Hot dip galvanising

2.2 Equipment confirming to other international standards will also be considered

if they are ensure performance and constructional feature equivalent or superior to
the standard listed above. Bidder shall clearly indicate the standard as adopted.

3. Service Conditons

3.1 Climatic Conditions

The breakers and accessories to be supplied against this specification shall be

suitable for satisfactory continuous operation under the tropical conditions.

4. Configurations of different type of panels (to be customized by utility as

per capacity and requirement)
TYPE RATING NO.
Incomer 1600A 2
Bus Coupler 1600A 1
Bus PT 11000/√3/110/√3 2
11 kV Feeder    
• CAPACITOR 800A, SUITABLE FOR 2500 4
FEEDER KVAR CAPACITOR CHARGING
DUTY.

• NORMAL FEEDER 800A 12

5. Construction

5.1 The 11 kV HT Switch board shall be totally enclosed dust and vermin proof,
sheet metal clad, floor mounted, free standing, indoor type and shall house circuit
breakers, busbars, control equipments, cable termination, current transformers,
potential transformers, instruments, relays and other accessories. All HT panels
shall be with fully draw out type breaker carriages, compartmentalized design
with cold rolled sheet steel (thickness 2.0 mm for non load bearing and 3.0mm for
load bearing parts) and with IP-4X class of enclosure. The Circuit Breaker
compartment, Busbar compartment, Cable compartment and LT compartment
shall have its own pressure relief flaps/vents with a view to release pressure which
would develop in the unlikely event of fault. The vents shall not allow entry of
vermin in any case. Bus bar, metering, circuit breaker chamber, cables and cable
box chamber should have proper access for maintenance, proper interlocks should
be provided. All instruments shall be non-draw out type and safe guard in every
respect from damages and provided with mechanical indicator of connection and
disconnection position. The switchgear shall be completed with all necessary
wiring fuses, auxiliary contacts terminal boards etc.

5.2 For each of the incoming and outgoing cubicles, the cable connection, HT bus
bars and all low voltage control devices shall be housed in separate enclosures.
These enclosures shall be necessarily isolated from that for main circuit breaker
chamber to offer better safety and protection of working personnel. All doors
other than cable chamber shall be of hinged and lockable type with Neoprene
gaskets at all joints and the cable chamber shall be fixed with nuts and bolts.
Additional wire mesh guards and gaskets shall be provided for cable chamber.

5.3 The arcing contacts and bus bar should be rated for 25ka for 1s Bus bars shall
be capable of connecting one switchgear panel to other through proper insulated
arrangement, which does not decrease the insulation strength of the bus bar at the
point of connection between two panels. The panels shall be modular in design.

5.4 The breakers should be able to be drawn out in horizontal position at ground
level [with vertical/horizontal isolation] when breaker is drawn out in horizontal
position none of the live components inside the 11 KV switchgear panel should be
accessible. The safety shutters shall be robust and shall automatically cover the
live components when the breaker is drawn out. The switchgear shall have
complete interlocking arrangements at the fully inserted and fully drawn out and
test positions. Withdrawal of the breaker should not be possible in ON position, it
should not be possible to close the circuit breaker in service unless the entire
auxiliary and control circuit are connected.

5.5 Breaker should have three distinct positions inside the cubical; i.e. service, test
and isolated.

5.6 The switchboard shall be suitable to handle full rated capacity in the naturally
ventilated atmosphere and it shall be able to control and contain the high short
circuit energy under internal arc conditions and ensure safety of the operating
personnel in case of faults.

5.7 The cubicle door can be fully shut with breaker in ‘ISOLATED’ position to
stop ingress of dust and vermin. All switching operations shall be performed with
the door closed.

5.8 The VT/Relay compartments shall have degree of protective not less than IP52
in accordance with IS:13947. However remaining compartments can have IP 4X
type sealing. All louvers if provided shall have very fine Brass or GI mesh screen.

5.9 Safety shutters complying with IEC-60298 shall be provided to cover up the
fixed high voltage contacts on busbar and cable sides when the truck is moved to
ISOLATED position. The shutters shall move automatically, through a linkage
with the movement of the truck. Preferably it shall however, be possible to open
the shutters of busbar side and cable side individually against spring pressure for
testing purpose after defeating the interlock with truck movement deliberately. It
shall also be possible to padlock shutters individually. In case, insulating shutters
are provided, these shall meet the requirements of Clause 3.102.1 Note –2 of IEC-
60298 and necessary tests are per IEC –60298 Clause 5.103.1 shall be carried out.
A clearly visible warning label “Isolate elsewhere before earthing” shall be
provided on the shutters of incoming and tie connections which could be
energized from other end.

5.10 The switchboard shall have the facility of extension on both sides.
Adopter panels and dummy panels required to meet the various busbar
arrangement, cable / busduct termination and layouts shall be included in Bidder's
scope of work.

5.11 Bus duct inter connection is also includes in the Bidder Scope of
Work. The interconnection shall be top entry type with required enclosure and bus
duct site. Adequate support shall be provided for this inter-connection by higher
from roof.

6. Bus bars and connectors and insulators

6.1 Bus bars and all other electrical connection between various components shall
be made of high conductive aluminum alloy of rectangular cross sections. The bus
bars shall be able to carry the rated current of 1600 Amp continuously without
excessive heating and for adequately meeting the thermal and dynamic stresses in
the case of short circuit in the system up to full SC rating specified.

6.2 All bus bars connections shall be firmly and rigidly mounted on suitable
insulators to withstand short circuit stresses and vibrations.

6.3 Adequate clearance between 11 KV point and earth and between phases shall
be provided to ensure safety as per provision in the relevant Indian standard
specification/CEA regulations and the same shall be capable of withstanding the
specified high voltage tests as per IS-13118/IEC-56 and amendment thereof.

6.4 Sharp edges and bends either in the bus bars or bus bar connections shall be
avoided as far as possible. Wherever such bends or edges are un-avoidable,
suitable compound or any other insulation shall be supplied to prevent local
ionization and consequent flashover.

6.5 Busbar cross-section shall be uniform throughout the length of switchgear.

Busbars and other high voltage connection shall be sufficiently corona free at
maximum working voltage.
Busbar insulators shall be of arc and track resistant high strength, non-
hygroscopic, non-combustible type and shall be suitable to withstand stresses due
to over-voltages, and short circuit current. Busbar shall be supported on the
insulators such that the conductor expansion and contraction are allowed without
straining the insulators. In case of organic insulator partial discharge shall be
limited to 100 pico coulomb at rated capacity.

7. Circuit breaker

7.1 HT circuit breakers envisaged in the specification shall be designed to control

and protect the power system. The circuit breaker shall conform to IS 13118:
1991, IS 3427: 1969, IEC 298, IEC : 694 and IEC publication 56.

7.2 All circuit breakers shall be of horizontal isolation & horizontal draw out type
construction having easy manufacturing facility with separate lockable doors over
their compartment. The circuit breakers shall be fitted with necessary safety
mechanical interlocks.

7.3 The moving carriage of circuit breaker shall be provided with earthing
contacts continuously so that the breaker remains positively earthed in “service”
position and during withdrawal operation up to “test” position. The breaker shall
have anti pumping features.

7.4 All circuit breakers shall have three operational positions such as “Service”,
“Test” and “Isolated” position with positive indication for each position. All
circuit breakers of identical rating shall be physically & electrically
interchangeable.

7.5 The HT breaker shall be provided with motor operated, spring charged
independent closing mechanism. The mechanism shall have one geared motor
which will automatically recharge the mechanism as soon as breaker is closed.
These breakers shall have electrical and mechanical trip free features and an
emergency mechanical push to trip the same. All the features of the equipment
shall ensure complete safety of the operation and shall be complete with approved
safety devices to protect against potential hazards to operating personnel or to the
equipment around. The breakers shall also have facilities for manual operation
during emergency and servicing. Mechanism shall be simple, rugged and reliable
with minimum number of linkages. No damage to parts shall take place in case of
any inadvertent attempt for wrong operation.
7.6 All HT breakers shall be provided with at least 8 potential free Aux. contacts
to be used for interlocking / signaling purposes. Contact arrangement may be 4
NO + 4 NC and these shall be rated for 220 VDC, 6 Amp.

7.7 The circuit breakers shall be capable of rapid & smooth interruption of current
under all conditions completely suppressing all undesirable phenomenon even
under most severe & persistent short circuit condition or when interrupting small
leading or lagging reactive current.

7.8 The circuit breaker and panel should be completely type tested for 25 KA for 1
sec. and Test Certificate from independent authority should be submitted along
with the Tender.

7.9 Facilities to check contact erosion shall be provided particularly.

7.10 Comprehensive interlocking system to prevent any dangerous or

inadvertent operation shall be provided. Isolation of circuit breaker from bus bar
or insertion into bus bar shall only be possible when the breaker is in the open
position.

7.11 Vacuum interrupter should have an expected life of 30000 operations

at rated current and should be capable for operating more than 100 times at rated
short circuit current.

7.12 The switchgear should be designed for 2500 KVAR charging duty.

7.13 Mechanical indicators shall be provided on the breaker trucks to

indicate OPEN / CLOSED conditions of the circuit breaker, and
CHARGED/DISCHARGED conditions of the closing spring. An operation
counter shall also be provided. These may be visible without opening the breaker
compartment door.

8. Control and Interlocks

The circuit breaker will normally be controlled from local panels through closing
and trip coils.

Facilities shall be provided for mechanical tripping of the breaker and for manual
charging of the stored energy mechanism for a complete duty cycle, in an
emergency. These facilities shall be accessible only after opening the
compartment door.

Each panel shall have two separate limit switches, one for the Service position and
the other for Isolated position. Each of these limit switches shall have at least four
(4) contacts which shall close in the respective positions.

Auxiliary Contacts of breaker / contactor may be mounted in the fixed portion or

in the withdrawable truck as per the standard practice of the manufacturer, and
shall be directly operated by the breaker / contactor operating mechanism.

Circuit breaker shall be provided with inter pole barriers of insulating materials.
The use of inflammable materials like Hylam shall not be acceptable.

9. Protection relays

9.1 All the switchgears shall be provided with protective relays designed to
disconnect faulty circuit with speed and discrimination and shall confirm to IS-
3231 (1987) or latest revision thereof regarding accuracy and other feature.
Composite relay unit having S/C, O/C, E/F etc. shall be preferred.

9.2 All protective & auxiliary relays shall be in dust & vermin proof enclosure,
flush mounted on front side of metering compartment and shall be draw out type.

9.3 Insulation of relays should withstand 2.5 KV AC (rms) at 50 Hz for one

second between all circuits and the case and between all circuits not intended to be
connected together as per IS – 3231 : 1965.

9.4 Relays should be able to withstand Impulse and High Frequency Disturbance
as per IS 8686: 1977.

9.5 All relays and timers shall be rated for control supply voltage as mentioned
elsewhere and shall be capable of satisfactory continuous operation between 75-
110% of the rated voltage.

9.6 Bidder shall furnish in their offers the details of Relays (make, type, range
etc.) considered by them for each feeder in a tabular form together with
descriptive literature of the Relays offered.
a) All relays shall be draw out type confirming to all requirements as per IS:3231
and shall be suitable for operation from CT secondaries as required. All static
relays shall confirm to IS :8686 .

b) The protective relays, except for lock-out relays shall have self - reset
contacts, and shall be suitable for efficient and reliable operation of the protective
schemes

c) All timers shall be either electromagnetic or static type.

d) All relays & timers shall be designed for satisfactory performance under
specified tropical and humid conditions.

e) The bidder shall include in his bid a list of installations where the relays
offered are in trouble free operation.

f) The relays and timer shall operate under extreme conditions of control voltage
variation.

g) They shall not have any inbuilt batteries, and shall operate on available DC
supply. They shall be provided with hand-reset operation indicators (flags) or
LEDs with pushbuttons for resetting and for analysing the cause of breaker
operation.

h) Shall have built-in test facilities, or can be provided with necessary test blocks
and test switches. One testing plug shall be provided for each switchboard.

i) The auto reclose logic shall be generated from local panel. The logic shall be,
with the tripping of the feeder breaker under faults after a time delay of 1000 ms.
closing command shall be given to particular breaker. If the breaker close/trips
then no further closing command shall be issued. However this shall not be used
for, I/C, B/C and capacitor feeder.

j) Over voltage relay provided on bus PT shall be used as a backup.

k) The over voltage trip logic shall be extended only to capacitor feeder.

l) The protection relay should have potential free contacts as per the protection
logic requirement.
 m) Reverse blocking principle for the feeders with incomer shall be provided.

n) Intertripping of incomer with upstream breaker shall be provided.

o) Automatic power factor control relay shall be provided one in each section for
switching on the capacitor

p) All equipment shall have necessary protections. However, following minimum

protections shall be provided.

FEEDER Differential REF Over Over Earth Under Over Fuse

TYPE (87T) (64R) Current Current Fault Voltage Voltage Failure
-50 DMT(51 (51N) -27 -59
)
Incomer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes - - -
Bus Coupler - - - Yes Yes - - -
Capacitor - - Yes Yes Yes - - -
feeder
Normal feeder - - Yes Yes Yes - - -
Bus PT - - - - - Yes Yes Yes

q) The capacitor protection scheme shall be designed for the capacitor

configuration given elsewhere.

10. Current transformers

10.1 Two core CTs shall be employed for measuring instruments and
automatic tripping of circuit breakers on overload, Earth Fault and short circuit
protection. CT can be mounted on cable side of breakers with easy accessibility.
Class of accuracy and burden for protection CT shall be 5P10 and for metering CT
the same shall be class 0.5. The VA burden of the CTs shall be min. 25% more
than the calculated value. However, the min. VA burden of CTs shall be 20 VA.
CT shall conform to IS : 2705 (Parts 1-4) 1992 with its latest amendments.
However bidder shall furnish the actual VA ratings calculation required for the CT
considering the relays and meters provide, for employer approval.

10.2 All the CT’s shall be cast resin insulated, Bar primary/Wound
secondary type. All secondary connections shall be brought out through conduits
to terminal blocks having provision of shorting links.

10.3 Ratio of the CT’s shall be as indicated in the protection SLD.

10.4 Short time rating of CTs shall be 25 KA for 1 second. CTs shall be
double core and dual ratio. Saturation factor for metering core shall not exceed
2.5.

10.5 The designed accuracy should be available even at the lowest ratios
and all CTs shall withstand fault current corresponding to 25KA for 1 sec.

10.6 The secondary terminal of the current transformers shall be such that
effective and firm wire terminations are possible. Shorting links of adequate
capacity shall be provided at the terminal blocks for sorting of the leads from
secondary terminals of current transformers. The secondary terminal of the CTs
shall be earthed at one point.

10.7 The secondary winding resistance of CTs shall be as low as possible

but not greater than 0.2 Ohms per 100 turns.

11. Potential transformers (PT)

TWO (2) Nos. single phase units of ((11/√3) kV/(110/√3)V) PTs shall be mounted
on incoming panels. HRC fuse protection of adequate rating shall be provided on
HT and LT side of PT. Accuracy class of PT shall be 0.5. The primary and
secondary of these PTs shall be “Star” connected and used for, all protection and
measuring purposes onboard viz. line volt meters, energy meters etc. PTs shall
conform to IS:3156 (Parts 1-4):1992 with its latest amendments.

Potential transformers shall be cast resin, draw out type. PT changeover scheme
shall be provided in the switchboard.

All PT should have suitable current limited fuse both at primary and secondary.
12. Cable glands and clamping arrangment for holding suitable cable boxes

12.1 Two nos, brass-wiping glands for each incomer and one no. Brass
wiping gland for each outgoing panel of adequate dimension for XLPE cable of 3
crores up to 400 sq. mm size (to be customized by utility) shall be supplied along
with panels. For bus coupler no cable glands should be provided.

12.2 Suitable cable boxes as per requirement of cable shall be arranged by

the bidder. The panel shall however provide a flat of size 50x6 mm 2 with suitable
clamp made of 50x6 mm2 flat along with Nuts Bolts and Washers for holding the
cable boxes. The flat should be fitted at a suitable height with allotted arrangement
for adjustment of height from 300mm to 500mm at site. The clamp and flat shall
have suitable stud type arrangement for earthing cable and cable box.

12.3 All control cable/wire entries shall be by means of suitable cable

glands, such glands shall be of brass and tinned.

13. Auxiliary/control wiring

All the secondary wiring in the panel shall have high quality PVC insulation and
the same shall have conductor size of not less than 2.5 mm2 of copper Colors of
the secondary/auxiliary wiring should confirm to IS 375/1963 and latest
amendment thereof if any. All wiring shall be neatly run and group of wiring shall
be securely fixed by clips so that wiring can be checked without necessity of
removing the clamps. Wiring between fixed and moving portion of the panel shall
be run in flexible tubes and the same shall be so mounted to avoid any damage to
them due to mechanical movements. Ferrules with number shall be provided on
both end of the wiring.

14. Static energy meters - Deleted

15. Painting

All metallic surface [except enameled and bright parts] exposed to weather shall
be given suitable primer coat and two coats of first quality paint of approved
color. The supplier shall also supply adequate quantities of paints, Varnish etc. for
use of finished cost and for use of patching up any scratches received during
transport, handling erection testing and commissioning.

Instead of above proper powder coating after proper pre-treatment is acceptable

and in that case earlier condition will not applicable.

16. Tests

The design of circuit breaker shall be proven through all the routine and type tests
in accordance with IS 13118: 1991/IEC 56 and any amendment thereof.
Photocopy of all the test reports must be enclosed with the tender. Type test report
earlier than 5 year from the date of tender opening shall not be acceptable.

17. Technical Parameters (to be customized by utility as per capacity

and requirement)