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Ground Leakage Current Management

The document discusses ground fault protection in electrical systems. It notes that a human heart can be damaged by ground fault currents between 30-300 mA. There are generally two types of ground fault circuit breakers used, with 30 mA units for outgoing circuits and 300 mA units for incoming feeders. For systems protected only by overcurrent devices or fuses, the ground loop impedance must be low to ensure high fault currents. However, relying only on overcurrent protection is unreliable as ground impedance may increase over time. It is therefore important to directly detect and isolate low level ground leakage currents to prevent undetected faults from damaging circuits. For hazardous locations, ground leakage currents should not exceed 15% of the circuit rating or

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Ground Leakage Current Management

The document discusses ground fault protection in electrical systems. It notes that a human heart can be damaged by ground fault currents between 30-300 mA. There are generally two types of ground fault circuit breakers used, with 30 mA units for outgoing circuits and 300 mA units for incoming feeders. For systems protected only by overcurrent devices or fuses, the ground loop impedance must be low to ensure high fault currents. However, relying only on overcurrent protection is unreliable as ground impedance may increase over time. It is therefore important to directly detect and isolate low level ground leakage currents to prevent undetected faults from damaging circuits. For hazardous locations, ground leakage currents should not exceed 15% of the circuit rating or

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huma heart damaged by (nearly 60-300 ms or 3-15 cycles for a 50 Hz system) on 100 mili amp

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generally two type of GLCB IS USED 30 mili amp ,300 mili amp, 30 mili is used of out going
and 300 mili amp is used for incomer feeder .
systems protected through over current releases or HRC fuses only, the ground loop must have a
comparatively low impedance.
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Ground fault protection through over current releases or HRC fuses is not a reliable practice. It
requires a very low ground circuit resistance to maintain a high ground fault current, which may
not be possible in the long run. As a consequence, in certain cases the system may remain intact
on a ground fault and damage the healthy circuits. It is therefore good practice to provide a
ground leakage

It is therefore mandatory at such locations to keep their ground leakage current (rather than the
ground fault currents) low by maintaining a certain level of ground loop impedance and then be
able to detect and isolate these currents promptly.
-The leakage current at hazardous locations such as refineries, petrochemical plants and mines
should not exceed 15% of the rated current of the circuit or 5 A,

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The ground loop impedance in an HT system is therefore
kept much higher than on an LT system.

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