Comparison of energy presence in IEC and real transient impulses

Abstract

This study disclosed that the IEC impulse is not an appropriate candidate to benchmark real transient over-voltages owing to have many discrepancies between them in terms of energy localization and frequencies that host such energies. However, the total energy content of the comparable IEC impulse is higher than the real transient voltages. Thus, once tested and passed the endurance at laboratories such an energy absorbing device would not fail at the field applications against single real transient voltage. However the same cannot be guaranteed against the swarm of impulses as the same cannot be tested at the test bench due to many practical constraints. The study revealed that IEC impulses can accommodate only 2.31% of the total energy until it reaches to 90% of the peak voltage, whereas the selected real transient impulses have shown that they could accommodate nearly 6% to 18% of the total incident energy before they reach to 90 % of the peak voltage. Moreover, when IEC impulse reaches to the peak, it can incident only a 9.71% of the total energy, but real transient voltages demonstrated that they have a capacity to incident nearly 30% to 45 % total energy embedded in the impulse.