Transcript for:
Quick Guide to ETAP Usage

hello everyone and our goal today is to  teach you how to use etab in five minutes   so we'll go ahead and we'll start off with  a brand new project you also have the choice   obviously of opening up an existing project. In  our brand new project you can essentially build   your diagram from scratch using the toolbars or  you can simply go into the template and pick from   various pre-built reference designs that we have  provided or you can add your own reference design   you can have entire MCC lineups or you can  have complete substation uh configurations   as well as the engineering data or the  reference design for the substations as well   you can also bring in wind farm collector systems  and so on so forth so the sky's limit in terms of   bringing in a existing system so we  can go ahead and bring in one of these   systems that we've already built uh as an  option but if you're unhappy with it you can   simply delete it and start again uh when you  delete something from etap it always goes to   recycle bin so you can always bring it back at  any point in time or purge it one more time again   let's go ahead and build a quick model so we have  our power grid our our bus we want to add a relay   so we can add a ct and a relay maybe a transformer  perhaps a cable a bus and let's say we have two   motors in the system so with that i've quickly  built my diagram and you can see that the   the program does its best to set up the diagram  based on the spacing rules and we can go ahead   and now specify the missing information this is a  5 mba transformer and can simply bring in typical   impedance from ansi or iec standards and as far  as the cable is concerned we can put in the length   of the cable and pick the cable from the library  and of course there's also functions available to   size and derate the cable as needed the motor  data is already there based on our default   data which you can always change but we are ready  now to run our power flow calculation and you can   see the results directly on the diagram the units  are turned on so you can essentially quickly   toggle between them or you can simply switch  between different types of units in this case   kilowatt volts or percent for the voltage or you  can also turn on and see the kva and the amps for   the network so our load flow is done let's go  ahead and switch over to short circuit run the   computation and the program does a terrific job at  letting you know that you're missing information   so you can double click on the error message  it takes you the component that has the issue   and you can plug in the the data to complete  your study we're running a fault analysis so i   would like to go ahead and fault this particular  bus and run the calculation again and we can see   the fall contribution from the feeder as well  as from the individual machines in the network   ready to do a tcc curve no problem very quick  and easy you can simply go to the ct type in a   ct ratio go into the relay make sure we have an  output specified look i forgot to add a breaker   not a problem so what we can do is quickly come in  here add in a breaker no need to break connections   the program simply allows you to snap the breaker  in line now we can go back to defining uh the   output for this relay which needs a digital output  and it's going to be circuit breaker number two so   that's automatically interlocked for me and then  from the library which is verified and validated   you can pick from all of these different vendors  and pick your favorite vendor if you'd like from   here so we'll pick a schneider relay which is  a micom and it sets up the relay based on its   functions ocr olr as well as distance functions so  you can specify all those details we'll turn off   the instantaneous for the time being and set our  curve to an iec curve so we can go ahead and now   select this entire diagram and go ahead and plot  it into our tcc so we can see the the relay curve   we can see the cable damage curve the transformer  damage curve and the motor curve if you're ready   to remove details from this you can simply press  delete it doesn't affect the diagram but only   affects the tcc itself and here we can see our  setting page is set for schneider p44 and if   you're ready to change the time dial you can just  simply adjust the time dial up or down or change   the pickup for this particular relay and this  automatically updates the database everywhere   ready to test this protection no problem just  simply drag and drop the the short circuit arrow   once again the program is letting me know that i i  picked a cable that is missing some information so   we'll go ahead and pick a different conductor and  re-run our test again and we can see that this   relay picks up and trips the breaker in 283  milliseconds so very quickly you can also see   a sequence of operation directly on the diagram  and with that we can switch over to arc flash   run our arc flash computation uh we need to select  a bus where we want default so we can right click   and fault run our arc flash study the program  gives a warning that the ppe requirements have   not been approved so it's it's essentially doing  a safety check and then based on the current short   circuit results and the relay setting uh in in  the network we can see what the arcing current is   as well as the arc flash energy so from here  you're ready to go to the arc slash page   see more details uh or go inside the sequence of  operation for uh arc flash and you can investigate   in in more detail what's going on inside this  network who's tripping and at what stage and   once you're happy with that you can simply go  inside the arc flash analyzer and from here you   also have the possibility of printing labels  work permits data sheets and a whole lot more   so within uh five minutes we've shown you how easy  it is to build a diagram and run the calculations   with an etab going all the way from load flow to  short circuit to protection to arc flash thank you you