AK_Engineer
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Has anyone else investigated the work done per unit time (POWER) of an arc flash event?
A long term event has a very high incident energy when integrated over time, but escape from harm is possible for low explosiveness (W/in^2) ratings. (Future IEEE 1584 work?)
I've seen 100W/in^2 to 1kW/in^2 resulting in level 5 HRC levels (over 70E allowable).
Any ideas / comments?
A long term event has a very high incident energy when integrated over time, but escape from harm is possible for low explosiveness (W/in^2) ratings. (Future IEEE 1584 work?)
I've seen 100W/in^2 to 1kW/in^2 resulting in level 5 HRC levels (over 70E allowable).
Any ideas / comments?