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PLS-CADD Version 14.

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12:07:01 PM Thursday, November 10, 2016
NESPAK - Pakistan
Project Name: 'c:\users\usama\desktop\3206 thar - maitiari\pls cadd template\500kv.LOA'
IEEE Std. 738-2013 method of calculation
Air temperature is 50.00 (deg C)
Wind speed is 0.61 (m/s)
Angle between wind and conductor is 90 (deg)
Conductor elevation above sea level is 250 (m)
Conductor bearing is 202 (deg) (perpendicular to solar azimuth for maximum solar heating)
Sun time is 11 hours (solar altitude is 75 deg. and solar azimuth is 112 deg.)
Conductor latitude is 30.0 (deg)
Atmosphere is CLEAR
Day of year is 172 (corresponds to June 20 in year 2016) (day of the year with most solar heating)
Conductor description: 1590 kcmil 61/0 Strands COREOPSIS AAC - Adapted from 1970's Publicly Available Data
Conductor diameter is 3.693 (cm)
CORE STRANDS:
Homogenous non-ferrous
Radial Thermal Conductivity is 2.00 (W/m-K)
Conductor resistance is
0.0395 (Ohm/km) at 25.0 (deg C)
and
0.0462 (Ohm/km) at 75.0 (deg C)
Conductor resistance is computed using average of core and surface temperatures.
Emissivity is 0.5 and solar absorptivity is 0.5
Solar heat input is
calculated)
Radiation cooling is
Convective cooling is

19.505 (Watt/m) (corresponds to Global Solar Radiation of 1056.297 (Watt/m^2) - which was
15.282 (Watt/m)
46.428 (Watt/m)

Given a maximum conductor temperature of 80.0 (deg C),


The steady-state thermal rating is 948.9 amperes

NESPAK - Pakistan

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