Search

Premium Membership ♕

Limited Time Offer: Save 15% on PRO Plan with discount code: LRN15 and study specialized LV/MV/HV technical articles and studies.

Home / Download Center / Electrical Engineering Books and Technical Guides / Schneider Electric MV/LV Tehnical Guides and Studies / Control Panel Technical Design Guide (EMC Protection and Panel Wiring Tips)

Panel Workshops

Industrial workshops are places in which there is often a high concentration of electromagnetic disturbance. In the metallurgy industry, the electric power required generates very strong magnetic fields in the vicinity of electrolysis tanks and induction furnaces.

Control Panel Technical Design Guide (EMC Protection and Panel Wiring Tips)
Control Panel Technical Design Guide (EMC Protection and Panel Wiring Tips)

Workshops manufacturing parts in PVC or rubber use high-frequency welding processes to perform assembly. The propagation of strong magnetic fields and high-frequency waves is not easily controllable.

It creates local pollution in the midst of which the monitoring and control equipment must be able to operate.


Layout of equipment in a panel

1. Importance of the layout

If high-power and low-power devices are juxtaposed without taking precautions and if cables of different kinds are routed in the same raceways, serious malfunctions are likely.

By allowing for the rules described below as of the design stage, one will avoid tedious troubleshooting, the ex-post installation of filters, or even reworking of the layout and wiring.

Panel equipment layout
Panel equipment layout


2. Separate

The dedication of panels by power class is the most efficient measure to obtain an excellent “EMC” result. Moreover, separate routing of disturbing and sensitive cables ensures minimum coupling.

A metal raceway ensures equipotential bonding of the panels and efficient conduction of LF and HF interference.

Separate equipment in control panel
Separate equipment in control panel

3. Partition

Partitioning of the panel into two zones: power, and low level is an alternative. A metal partition will be able to further improve EMC by confining each zone.

Partitioning of the panel into two zones
Partitioning of the panel into two zones

For tricky situations!

In general, contactors should be kept away from electronic devices. A highly disturbing device (variable speed drive, frequency converter, etc.) will have less radiation in the panel if it is “encapsulated” in a small, electromagnetically sealed, unpainted metal enclosure.

The enclosure should be carefully connected to the back plate (earth plane).

Title:Control Panel Technical Guide (How to protect a machine from malfunctions due to electromagnetic disturbance) – Schneider Electric
Format:PDF
Size:5.2 MB
Pages:24
Download:Right here | Video Courses | Membership | Download Updates
Control Panel Technical Design Guide (EMC Protection and Panel Wiring Tips)
Control Panel Technical Design Guide (EMC Protection and Panel Wiring Tips)

Premium Membership

Get access to premium HV/MV/LV technical articles, advanced electrical engineering guides, papers, and much more! It will help you to shape up your technical skills in your everyday life as an electrical engineer.
50% Discount 💥 - Save 50% on all 90+ video courses with Enterprise Membership plan.

More Information

4 Comments


  1. matt.nissen
    Aug 15, 2021

    I noticed the guide recommends braided enclosure grounds, but in most of the telecom standards for HF noise they are used copper wire grounds. Can you clarify is braids are acceptable?


  2. navarro
    Feb 18, 2018

    NOS INTERESA REPRESENTAR SU MARCA EN LA ZONA DE BAVARO PUNTACANA REPUBLICA DOM. CONTACTO 809-543-4884.
    GACIAS.


  3. Ricardo Antonio Castro Martínez
    Feb 17, 2018

    Información valiosa a la hora de diseñar un cuadro.


  4. gamal
    Oct 16, 2017

    iam graduated Hope help in training

Leave a Reply to Ricardo Antonio Castro Martínez

Tell us what you're thinking. We care about your opinion! Please keep in mind that comments are moderated and rel="nofollow" is in use. So, please do not use a spammy keyword or a domain as your name, or it will be deleted. Let's have a professional and meaningful conversation instead. Thanks for dropping by!

  +  forty two  =  forty nine

Learn How to Design Power Systems

Learn to design LV/MV/HV power systems through professional video courses. Lifetime access. Enjoy learning!

Subscribe to Weekly Newsletter

Subscribe to our Weekly Digest newsletter and receive free updates on new technical articles, video courses and guides (PDF).
EEP Academy Courses - A hand crafted cutting-edge electrical engineering knowledge