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The document discusses discrimination between circuit breakers in an electrical system. It shows tripping curves for different circuit breakers replicating the landlord's equipment and replacing it with ABB circuit breakers of varying amperages. It explains that ABB uses energy-based selectivity to achieve discrimination, where the downstream breaker trips first at a lower energy level before the fault can propagate upstream. While the short circuit regions of the curves appear to overlap visually, ABB's coordination tables which are factory tested confirm full discrimination between the downstream and upstream breakers.

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Discrimination Report PDF

The document discusses discrimination between circuit breakers in an electrical system. It shows tripping curves for different circuit breakers replicating the landlord's equipment and replacing it with ABB circuit breakers of varying amperages. It explains that ABB uses energy-based selectivity to achieve discrimination, where the downstream breaker trips first at a lower energy level before the fault can propagate upstream. While the short circuit regions of the curves appear to overlap visually, ABB's coordination tables which are factory tested confirm full discrimination between the downstream and upstream breakers.

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Discrimination Report

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Landlord’s 3200A Mitsubishi ACB curve replicated (GREEN)

Landlord’s 300A Mitsubishi MCCB curve replicated (ORANGE)

ABB 320A MCCB – model T4S 320A PR221DS-LS/I 320A (BLUE)

ABB 20A MCB – model S201-C20 (PINK)

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Landlord’s 3200A Mitsubishi ACB curve replicated (GREEN)

Landlord’s 400A Mitsubishi MCCB curve replicated (ORANGE)

ABB 400A MCCB – model ABB T5S PR221DS-LS/I 400A (RED)

ABB 20A MCB – model S201-C20 (PINK)

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Landlord’s 3200A Mitsubishi ACB curve replicated (GREEN)

Landlord’s 600A Mitsubishi MCCB curve replicated (ORANGE)

ABB 630A MCCB – model ABB T5S PR221DS-LS/I 630A (BLACK)

ABB 250A MCCB – model ABB XT4S Ekip LS/I R 250 (PINK)

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Energy Discrimination

The short circuit discrimination between the final ABB circuit breaker and the immediate upstream ABB
breaker is achieved via ABB’s energy-based selectivity discrimination. The energy based selectivity
makes use of the current limiting features of ABB breakers. This current limiting design utilizes a short
trip time of milliseconds in order to prevent the short circuit current from reaching the peak value it
would otherwise reach.

What happens is that the energy associated with the load side circuit-breaker trip is lower than the
energy value needed to complete the opening of the supply side circuit-breaker.

Co-ordination / selectivity/ discrimination tables which have been factory tested are provided by ABB to
demonstrate where TOTAL discrimination can be achieved.

Taking a look at the three curves provided above, we can see based on the tables below that TOTAL
discrimination can be achieved.

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In summary the final ABB circuit breaker and the immediate upstream ABB breaker is able to achieve full
discrimination. Looking at the tripping curves plotted above, although the short circuit region is visually
showing an overlap, in practice the downstream breaker will trip first preventing the short circuit from
reaching its peak value or a value high enough to activate the short circuit protection of the breaker
immediately upsteam. This is also confirmed via ABB’s co-ordination tables which are factory tested to
guarantee the discrimination.

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