IEEE Guide for Fence Safety Clearances in Electric-Supply Stations

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IEEE Guide for Fence Safety Clearances in Electric-Supply Stations

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Approved September 26,1988

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(This Foreword is not a part of IEEE Std 1119-1988, IEEE Guide for Fence Safety Clearances in Electric-Supply Stations.)

This guide was prepared by the Substation Safety Working Group D4 of the Substations Committee, Distribution Substation Subcommittee. The membership of the working group was as follows:

H. M. Tucker, Chairman
N. Barbeito C. J. Blattner M. Bogdan S. D. Brown

R. E. Carberry s. Cluts A. E. Kollar D. N. Laird W. J. Lohner

T. S. McLenahan S. G. Patel C. L. Rogers B. W. Wray

The following persons were on the balloting committee that approved this document for submission to the IEEE Standards Board:
W. J. Ackerman B. Y. Afshar S. J. Arnot Nelson Barbeito R. U. Benson J. D. Betz K. L. Black C. J. Blattner W. R. Block S. Bogdanowicz R. H. Bower S. D. Brown D. E. Buettner J. B. Cannon J. W. Cheever T. C. Cheng s.cluts E. F. Counsel F. Dawalibi F. A. Denbrock W. K. Dick C. C. Diemond P. R. Dolan E. Eldridge F. K. Faulkner L. N. Ferguson H. H. Ferris, Jr D. L. Garrrett

H. R. Gilden J. G n a n
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T. S. McLenahan S. P. Meliopoulos C. Minshew P. R. Nannery J. OHara J. T. Orrell J. Oswald J. Paolozzi S. G. Patel R. J. Perina T. A. Pinkham,III J. Quinata D. G. Rishworth B. D. Russell J. Sabath D. R. Schafer R. C. St. Clair J. G. Sverak W. K. Switzer E. R. Taylor H. M. Tucker L. F. Volf, Jr R. P. Webb R. J. Wehling W. M. Werner B. W. Wray R. M. Youngs

When this standard was approved on September 26, 1988, the IEEE Standards Board had the following membership:

Donald Fleckenstein,Chairman
Arthur A. Blaisdell Fletcher J. Buckley James M. Daly Stephen R. Dillon Eugene P. Fogarty Jay Forster* Thomas L. Hannan Kenneth D. Hendrix Theodore W. Hissey, Jr *Member Emeritus
John H.Horch Jack M. Kinn Frank D. Kirschner Frank C. Kitzantides Irving Kolodny Joseph L. Koepfinger* Edward Lohse John E. May, Jr Lawrence V. McCall

Marc0 W. Migliaro, Vice Chairm~n

Andrew G. Salem, Secretary

L. Bruce McClung Donald T. Michael* Richard E. Mosher L. John Rankine Gary S. Robinson Frank L. Rose Helen M. Wood Karl H. Zaininger Donald W. Zipse

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contents
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1.1 Purpose .............................................................................................. 1.2 Scope ................................................................................................. 2 . Definitions ................................................................................................ 3 . References ................................................................................................. 4 . Fence Safety Clearance ..................................................................................
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1 . Introduction ...............................................................................................

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Safety Clearance to Electric-Supply Station Fences ..............................................

APPENDIX

Appendix A

Example Applications of Fence Safety Clearance .....................................

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APPENDIX FIGURES

Fig Al Illustration Showing Insufficient Fence Safety Clearance .................................. Fig A2 Illustration Showing Sufficient Fence Safety Clearance ..................................... Fig A3 Illustration Showing Sufficient Fence Safety Clearance .....................................

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IEEE Guide for Fence Safety Clearances in Electric-Supply Stations

1 Introduction .
11 Purpose. The purpose of this guide is t o . provide design guidance for the location of fences with respect t o live parts within an electric-supply station. The intent of the fence safety clearance is t o provide a reasonable safety clearance zone so t h a t someone inserting an object through the electric-supply station fence should not contact live parts or come close enough to the live parts to violate the required live part to ground clearance and cause a flashover t o occur. The safety clearance zone is necessary t o minimize a possible hazard t o anyone on the outside of a n electric-supply station fence.
1.2 Scope. This guide presents a method for providing fence safety clearances for electricsupply stations. The guide applies to electricsupply stations with voltage between phases up to and including 765 000 V. It is recognized that this guide illustrates only one physical situation, and the user may be confronted with other physical parameters, in which case the intent of the guide should be appropriately applied .

or other objects, or between conductors and ground.

electric-supply equipment. Equipment that produces, modifies, regulates, controls, or safeguards a supply of electric energy. electric-supplystation. Any building, room, or separate space within which electric-supply equipment is located and the interior of which is accessible, as a rule, only t o properly qualified persons. This includes generating stations, substations and generator, storage battery, and transformer rooms. exposed.Not isolated or guarded. live parts. Those parts that are designed t o operate at voltage different from that of the earth.

This guide shall be used in conjunction with the following publications:

[11 ANSI C2-1987, National Electrical Safety

Code.'

2. Definitions Definitions of terms pertinent to the subject matter are listed here. Definitions as given herein apply specifically t o the application of this guide. For additional definitions see ANSHEEE S d 100-1988 C2l.l t

[21 ANSUIEEE Std 100-1988, IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms.s

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clearance. The separation between two conductors, between conductors and supports
The numbers in brackets correspond with those of the n references i Sedion 3.

'ANSI publications are available from the Sales Department, American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018. ANSI/IEEE publications are available from the IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331. They are also available from the Sales Department, American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018.

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Fig 1 Safety-clearance ElectricSupplyS a i n Fences to tto

Dimensions for U e with Fig 1, Fence safety clearance .s s

Dimension B Dimension A & m & m 15.0 4.6 10.0 3.1 16.0 4.9 12.0 3.7 16.7 5.1 13.0 4.0 17.1 5.2 14.0 4.3 17.6 5.4 14.0 4.3 19.0 5.8 16.0 4.9 21.3 6.5 18.0 5.5 24.9 7.6 21.0 6.4 5o om 29.7 9.1 23.0 7.0 766 m NOTES: (1) Dimension A is equal to the vertical clearance of wires, conductors, and cables above spaces and ways subject to pedestrians or restricted traffc only (ANSI C2-1987 [l], Rules 232A and 232B, and Table 232-1, 5) for the voltage considered. (2) The B dimension was established after considering the horizontal clearance of unguarded live parts in electric-supply stations (ANSI C21987 [l], Rule 124 A and Table 124-l), plus the effective length of a md or pole that could be inserted through the electric-supply station fence. The horizontal clearances used for the extra-high voltages are based on BIL fadors (ANSI C2-1987 [l], Table 124-1,Part C). (3) The values shown for dimension A for nominal voltages between phases of 115 000 and above should be increased 3% for each 1000 R (300 m) i excess of 3300 R (1000 m) above mean sea level. n Nominal Voltage Between Phases 15134 500 46 ~ 9 O O o 115000 138000 1 1m 6 230000 345000

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IN ELECTRIC-SUPPLY STATIONS
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IEEE std1119-1988

4. Fence safety Clearance

4.1 Fences, partitions, o r walls when installed t o minimize the possibility of entrance of unauthorized persons, should be located so that the exposed live parts are outside the safetyclearance zone as illustrated in Fig 1.
EXCEPTIONS: (1) When a n impenetrable fence, partition, or wall with no openings through which sticks or other objects can be inserted is used, live parts complying with the requirements of ANSI C2-1987 [ l ] ,Part 1 may be installed within the safety-clearance zone if the live parts are below the horizontal line projected from the top of the impenetrable fence o r wall.

[2) The safety-clearance zone requirement is not applicable to fences within the perimeter fence of an electric-supply station.

4.2 The safety-clearance zone is defined by

constructing an arc with radius B from a point on the centerline of the fence (without regard to fence height), so that the arc is tangent t o the horizontal line defined by dimension A and to the vertical line defined by dimension B measured horizontally from the fence centerline. All exposed live parts throughout the range of their motion shall be outside the safety zone.

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std1119-1988 IEEE GUIDE FOR FENCE SAFETY CLEARANCES

(This Appendix is not a part of IEEE Std 1119-1988, IEEE Guide for Fence Safety Clearances in Electric-Supply Stations, but is included here for information only.)

AppendixA Example Applications of Fence safety Clearan-

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Fig Al Illustration Showing InsufFicient Fence Safety Clearance

EXAMPLES: This example is illustrated in (1) Fig Al. The proposed fence location is 8 ft from
the centerline of the voltage regulator. Since this is a 12.47 kV (phase-to-phase) circuit, the A dimension from the table of Fig 1 is 15 ft. The B dimension from the table of Fig 1 is 10 ft. As shown in Fig Al, the voltage regulator bushings are within the safety clearance zone, thereby this design is not acceptable. The fence should be moved further from the voltage regulator t o provide an acceptable fence safety clearance. (2) The second example illustrates an acceptable design and is shown in Fig A2. The proposed fence location is 20 ft from the

centerline of the 69 kV circuit breaker. The A dimension from the table in Fig 1 is 16 ft. The B dimension from the table of Fig 1 is 12 ft. As shown in Fig A2, adequate fence safety clearance is provided. (3) The third example also illustrates an acceptable design and is shown in Fig A3. The proposed location of the fence is 20 ft from the centerline of the 138 kV coupling-capacitor voltage transformer (CCVT). The A dimension from the table of Fig 1 is 17.1 ft. The B dimension from the table of Fig 1 is 14 ft. As shown in Fig A3, adequate fence safety clearance is provided.

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Fg im Illustrationshowing Sufficient Fence Safety Clearance

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FigA3 I l s r t o showingSufficient lutain Fence Safety Clearance

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