An industrial installation has a mains cable wired using a 70 mm2 V75 insulated three core copper cable. The fault level at the main switchboard has been calculated as being 25 KA. Protection is currently provided to the mains cable by a triple pole circuit breaker which has a fault clearing time of 0.3 seconds. Determine whether or not the existing cable would be capable of handling a short circuit as described. Constant K for PVC cables is 111.

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An industrial installation has a mains cable wired using a 70 mm2
V75 insulated three core copper cable.
The fault level at the main switchboard has been calculated as being
25 kA.
Protection is currently provided to the mains cable by a triple pole
circuit breaker which has a fault clearing time of 0.3 seconds.
Determine whether or not the existing cable would be capable of
handling a short circuit as described.
Constant K for PVC cables is 111.
Transcribed Image Text:An industrial installation has a mains cable wired using a 70 mm2 V75 insulated three core copper cable. The fault level at the main switchboard has been calculated as being 25 kA. Protection is currently provided to the mains cable by a triple pole circuit breaker which has a fault clearing time of 0.3 seconds. Determine whether or not the existing cable would be capable of handling a short circuit as described. Constant K for PVC cables is 111.
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