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Cable Routing

Cable routing techniques are used to protect cables from mechanical stress and harsh environments. The main cable routing techniques are conduits, trays, busways, and trenches. Conduits are traditionally used and can be made of metal or plastic. Metal conduits provide grounding and shielding from interference while plastic resists corrosion. Cable trays are open structures that also ground cables but leave them exposed. Bus ducts contain pre-made copper busbars for power distribution in industrial settings. Cable trenches involve burying cables underground in dug trenches.

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Cable Routing

Cable routing techniques are used to protect cables from mechanical stress and harsh environments. The main cable routing techniques are conduits, trays, busways, and trenches. Conduits are traditionally used and can be made of metal or plastic. Metal conduits provide grounding and shielding from interference while plastic resists corrosion. Cable trays are open structures that also ground cables but leave them exposed. Bus ducts contain pre-made copper busbars for power distribution in industrial settings. Cable trenches involve burying cables underground in dug trenches.

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Cable Routing

What is cable routing?


• Cable routing is a structure used to protect the
cable from mechanical stress and harsh situation
such as abrasion which might degrade the
insulation.
What are the different types of cable routing
techniques?
• Conduits
• Trays
• Busways (Bus Duct)
• Cable Trench
Conduits:
• Conduits are traditionally used technique for cable routing. Available
in either plastic or metal.
• Conduit resembles piping used to transport liquids, except that it is
much thinner-walled than fluid pipe and is not rated to resist internal
pressure as it is pipe.
• Installing cable into an electrical conduit is a task referred to as cable
pulling.
Type of Conduits-Metal conduits:
• Metal conduit naturally forms a continuously grounded conductive
enclosure that offers not only a measure of safety against
electrical shock, but also shields against electrostatic interference.
Used in power wiring for VFDs and Rectifiers which have a tendency
to broadcast large amounts of electromagnetic noise.
Type of Conduits-Metal conduits:
Type of Conduits-Plastic conduits:
• Plastic conduit provides no electrical grounding or shielding because
plastic is a nonconductor of electricity.
• It is better than metal conduits in terms of chemical resistance to
corrosion, which is why cables are used in fields containing water,
acids, caustics and other moist chemicals.
Type of Conduits-Plastic conduits:
Cable Trays
• Trays can be produced of strong steel wire for light-duty applications
such as instrument signal cabling or network computer cabling, or
they can be made of steel or aluminum channel for heavy-duty
applications such as electrical energy cabling.
• Cable trays are open, leaving the cables exposed to the environment.
While cable tray provides a continuously grounded surface for
electrical safety the same as metal conduit.
Cable Trays
Bus duct:
• TBus ducts, also known as busways, are a unique type of wiring often
seen in industrial power distribution installations.
• These are rectangular sheet metal pipes that contain pre-made
copper busbars for three-phase AC power conduction. Special
junction boxes, “tees,” and tap boxes enable busways to stretch and
connect to other busses and/or conventional conductor cables.
• Bus ducts mostly used in indoor applications, mostly in
Motor Control Center (MCC) and power distribution center rooms to
and from large disconnect switches, fuses, and circuit breakers.
Bus duct:
Cable Trench:
• Cable trenching is a method of laying cables into the ground by
digging trenches. The cables are submerged underground via the
trench and are then covered by a layer of earth, bitumen or concrete.
Cable Trench:
Sample Cable Routing Layout
Cable Routing Layout - Sections
Distance between Cable in Cable
Trench/Tray as per ADNOC Onshore
Standards

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