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LV 400V AC armoured cable glands are geeting overheat(Temp. measured more than 60 deg C)

Rohit Sharma
Hello Electrical Team.

I would like to discuss an issue being facing in our Power plant(90MW). Our plant generation voltage is 11KV & Plant auxiliary & MCC voltage is 400V AC 50Hz. We have two sections of Power plant PP1 & PP2. In PP2 we are facing issue in LV MCC Panels. 

In LV system we have two BUS A & B. Both BUS's are getting power from their individual T/F(11KV/400V AC) & from here power is distributed to various MCC panels in plant. 

Booster no. 1 MCC have two LV breakers(Q1 & Q2) which are getting power from BUS A & B.

During last week we were found that Q1 breaker incoming cable insulation was melted around the cable gland area & checked the other glands also & they are also found overheated with abnormal temperature. then we took changeover to Q2 breaker but this is also now getting overheat. In main LV distribution panel side also cable glands are getting overheat which are connected to Q1 & Q2 breakers in MCC.

In one phase two cable are laid & connected, size is 400 sq.mm Armoured cable. R phase(L1 & L2), Y Phase(L1 &L2) & B Phase(L1 & L2). The current also not equal in two length of each phase.Pl see the below readings.
Line

Without Armoured

With Armoured

R Phase

L11

195 A

328A

115A

174A

L12

137 A

72A

Y Phase

L21

103A

332A

145A

306A

L22

167A

175A

B Phase

L31

150A

328A

120A

317A

L32

183A

199A


without armoured = Cable outside of MCC before entry in panel.

with armoured = After gland inside the panel. 

Team kindly go through the above said issue & your kind comments will be highly appreciated.
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    If you cannot justify stopping to fix it until the next scheduled downtime, then  a proper version of that cooling fan may buy you some time.

    I'd be very worried by of any plan that involved taking the glands apart  with the power on.


    I do not think that looping a wire between the banjo washers on the glands will make any difference  - unless the gland plate is far too thin, and I'd expect 5mm thick as a minimum, or it will bend under the weight of the cables, the electrical cross-section of the gland plate should be  some hundreds of mm-sq equivalent , so adding some relatively thin wire in parallel to this will not help. Just take the banjo washers out altogether, and use them to make  key rings or something , for the potential fault currents these cables can supply they would be just fuses. Compare the strength to the lug on the true PE cable.

    (and if the gland plate is thin, how is any arc flash and blast contained, and what contains the cables against tonnes force of magneto-convulsion if there is ever a fault.)

    It is probably a bit late, but do you have access to the person who designed this, as all these things are normally calculated in at the beginning.


    Please use a small magnet to test what exactly is magnetic and what is not.
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    If you cannot justify stopping to fix it until the next scheduled downtime, then  a proper version of that cooling fan may buy you some time.

    I'd be very worried by of any plan that involved taking the glands apart  with the power on.


    I do not think that looping a wire between the banjo washers on the glands will make any difference  - unless the gland plate is far too thin, and I'd expect 5mm thick as a minimum, or it will bend under the weight of the cables, the electrical cross-section of the gland plate should be  some hundreds of mm-sq equivalent , so adding some relatively thin wire in parallel to this will not help. Just take the banjo washers out altogether, and use them to make  key rings or something , for the potential fault currents these cables can supply they would be just fuses. Compare the strength to the lug on the true PE cable.

    (and if the gland plate is thin, how is any arc flash and blast contained, and what contains the cables against tonnes force of magneto-convulsion if there is ever a fault.)

    It is probably a bit late, but do you have access to the person who designed this, as all these things are normally calculated in at the beginning.


    Please use a small magnet to test what exactly is magnetic and what is not.
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