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Electrical Load Estimation Guide

The document provides guidelines for estimating electrical installation demands in apartment blocks, including factors of simultaneity for various numbers of consumers. It recommends a factor of 0.8 for consumers using electrical heat-storage units and presents an example calculation for a 5-storey building with 25 consumers. The document also discusses the sizing of conductors for rising mains based on current requirements at different floors.

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Electrical Load Estimation Guide

The document provides guidelines for estimating electrical installation demands in apartment blocks, including factors of simultaneity for various numbers of consumers. It recommends a factor of 0.8 for consumers using electrical heat-storage units and presents an example calculation for a 5-storey building with 25 consumers. The document also discusses the sizing of conductors for rising mains based on current requirements at different floors.

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Factor of simultaneity for an apartment block


Some typical values for this case are gven in Figure AlO and are applicable to domestic consumers supplied
at 230/40A Y (3-phase 4-wires). In the case of consurners using electrical heat-storage units for space heatiag
a factor of 0.8 is recommended, regardless of the number of consumers.

!{umber ofdorustream Factor of


ionsumers simultaneity (k*)
2to4 I
5 to9 3.78
10t0 14 3.63
15 to 19 0.53
20 to 24 3.49
15 to29 3.46
30to 34 i.44
35 to 39 4.42
to 49 ).41
50 and more ).40

Fig. A10: Simultaneityfactors in an apartment black

Example (see Fig. A11):


--5 storeys apartment building with 25 coRsumers, each having 6 kVA of installed load.
\-.The total installed load for the building is: 36 + 24 + 30 + 36 * 24:150 k\4,
The apparent-power supply required for the building is: 150 x 0.46 :69 kVA
From Figure A10, it is possible to determine the magnitude of currents in different sections of the cofilmon
main feeder supplying all floors. For vertical rising mains fed at ground level, the cross-sectional area of the
conductors can evidently be progressive$ reduced &om the lower floors towards the upper floors.
These changes of conductor size are conventionally spaced by at least 3-floor intervals.
In the example, the current entering the rising main at ground level is:

l$$ x S.aSj< 1ft8


* l**.d
4mt1s

the current entering the third floor is:

2 of5 W7l2A12 3:24 PIv

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