Standards And Directives; Protection And Safety; Emc; Grid Harmonics - Siemens SINAMICS S120 System Manual

Standards and directives

When feeding electric power into a grid, different requirements can apply depending on the
actual location. Frequently, the requirements depend on the particular country, and in some
cases depend on the specific guidelines (grid codes) of the individual power utility company.
This is complemented by the individual conditions resulting from the power generating
application itself. Complying with these requirements requires using special hardware
components and settings in the higher-level control system.
The following list of notes regarding the applicable standards does not claim to be complete.
Active Line Modules in the chassis format from the realm of industrial applications satisfy the
following properties.
4.1

Protection and safety

Standard EN 61800-5-1 is complied with in the area of protection/safety.
EN 61800-5-1: Adjustable-speed electrical power drive systems
Part 5: Safety requirements
Main section 1: Electrical and thermal requirements
For the North American market, Active Line Modules comply with UL508C
UL508C: Power Conversion Equipment
4.2

EMC

Active Line Modules comply with EMC standard EN 61800-3
EN 61800-3: Variable-speed electric drives
Part 3: EMC - requirements and specific test methods
4.3

Grid harmonics

When using self-commutated IGBT infeed devices (for example, S120 Active Line Modules),
the limit values of standard IEEE 519 (Recommended Practices and Requirements for
Harmonic Control in Electrical Power Systems) are complied with.
Grid infeed
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