Electrical Installation Design Guide: Calculations for Electricians and Designers (Electrical Regulations) 5th Edition by by The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Contents of Electrical Installation Design Book
- Chapter 1 – Design sequence
- Load characteristics
- Supply characteristics
- Installation outline
- Distribution design
- Standard final circuits
- Isolation and switching
- Final assessment
- Compliance with BS
- Chapter 2 – Simple installations and final circuits
- Introduction
- Supply characteristics
- Fault rating of switchgear
- Final circuit overcurrent devices and cables
- Final circuit voltage drop limitations
- Fault protection
- Short-circuit current protection
- Protective conductors
- Standard final circuits
- Chapter 3 – Maximum demand and diversity
- Introduction
- Installation outline
- Final circuit current demand
- Diversity between final circuits
- Complex installations
- Chapter 4 – Selection of cables for current-carrying capacity
- Symbols
- Preliminary design
- Overcurrent requirements
- Current-carrying capacity tables
- Protection against overload and short-circuit
- Protection against fault current only
- Corrections for grouping not liable to simultaneous overload
- Motors
- Chapter 5 – Voltage drop
- Voltage drop in consumers’ installations
- Distribution system voltage drop
- Basic voltage drop calculation
- Correction for inductance
- Correction for load power factor
- Correction for conductor operating temperature
- Correction for both conductor operating temperature and load power factor
- Chapter 6 – Calculation of fault current
- Determination of prospective fault current
- Determined by enquiry
- Determined by calculation
- Chapter 7 – Shock protection
- Shock protection
- Protective measure: automatic disconnection of supply
- Circuit calculations
- Chapter 8 – The adiabatic equation
- Protection against fault current
- Selection from Table
- Introduction to calculations
- Simple calculation
- Energy let-through calculation
- Plotting protective conductor adiabatics
- Protective conductor as a sheath or armour of a cable
- Plotting of cable armour adiabatics
- Calculation of armour capability
- Conduit and trunking
- Earthing and bonding conductors
- Chapter 9 Calculations associated with testing
- Earth fault loop impedance Z
- Reduced section protective conductors
- Chapter 10 – Impedance of copper and aluminium conductors
- Conductor resistance and temperature
- Impedance of cables from voltage drop tables
- Chapter 11 – Harmonics
- Introduction
- Cable ratings
- Voltage drop
- Overcurrent protection
- Chapter 12 – Protection against voltage disturbances
- The overvoltages
- Power frequency fault voltage
- Power frequency stress voltages
- Earthing of 11 KV substations
- Chapter 13 – Busbar trunking
- Symbols
- Voltage drop
- Fault currents
