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Building Heat Load Contributions from Medium and Low Voltage Switchgear,
Part II, Component and Overall Switchgear Heat Gains

Article in ASHRAE Transactions · July 2009

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 Building Heat Load Contributions from Medium and Low Voltage Switchgear — Part II:

Component and Overall Switchgear Heat Gains

Emilio C. Piesciorovsky and Warren N. White

Abstract – Utility power sub-stations, industrial plants, and buildings use electrical power

equipment in low voltage (LV) and medium voltage (MV) levels. A large number of electrical

brands and products together with a lack of power efficiency information provide complications

for HVAC engineers and designers in predicting power equipment heat loss. This is very true for

LV and MV switchgear. Environmental heat gain information is very important for sizing HVAC

equipment. The objectives of this paper are to update information on heat loss by LV and MV

switchgear and to show these losses can be predicted. Two spreadsheet models are presented that

calculate the power loss for low and medium voltage switchgear and practical examples are shown

for each case using realistic information. The spreadsheets provide an approximation of the

dissipated power losses if actual current loadings are used. However, if breaker and bus amp

ratings (unknown loading case) are used in place of the actual loadings, the dissipated power loss

of the LV and MV switchgear will be overestimated. This emphasizes the need of using the actual

loadings for each bus and circuit breaker to obtain realistic results.

Piesciorovsky EC, White WN. Building Heat Load Contributions from Medium and Low Voltage

Switchgear Part II: Component and Overall Switchgear Heat Gains (RP - 1395). ASHRAE Annual

Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, June 20 to 24, 2009. ASHRAE Transactions, vol. 115 (2) pp.

382-395, July 1, 2009.

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