EN 50152-1:2012

Railway applications - Fixed installations - Particular requirements for alternating current switchgear - Part 1: Circuit-breakers with nominal voltage above 1 kV

This EN 50152-1 is applicable to single-pole and two-pole alternating current (a.c.) circuit-breakers which are: - for indoor or outdoor fixed installations in tractions systems, and - operated with an a.c. line voltage and frequency as specified in EN 50163. NOTE 1 EN 50163 specifies the a.c. traction systems 15 kV 16,7 Hz and 25 kV 50 Hz. NOTE 2 As rails of a.c. traction systems are connected to earth and included in the return current path all phase to earth voltages will be within the tolerances as specified in EN 50163. Nevertheless phase to phase voltages are sometimes higher e.g. in autotransformer systems. This European Standard is also applicable to the operating devices of circuit-breakers and to their auxiliary equipment. This European Standard does not address circuit-breakers with dependent manual operating mechanism. NOTE 3 It is impossible to specify a rated short-circuit making current for these circuit-breakers and it is likely that such dependent manual operation is not meeting safety considerations.

Bahnanwendungen - Ortsfeste Anlagen – Besondere Anforderungen an Wechselstrom-Schalteinrichtungen – Teil 1: Leistungsschalter mit einer Nennspannung größer als 1 kV

Applications ferroviaires - Installations fixes - Spécifications particulières pour appareillage à courant alternatif - Partie 1: Disjoncteurs de tension nominale supérieure à 1 kV

Železniške naprave - Stabilne naprave električne vleke - Posebne zahteve za stikalne naprave za izmenični tok - 1. del: Tokovni odklopniki za nazivno napetost nad 1 kV

Ta standard EN 50152-1 se uporablja pri tokovnih odklopnikih z enopolnim ali dvopolnim izmeničnim tokom (a.c.), za katere velja:
– uporabljajo se za notranje ali zunanje pričvrščene naprave v vlečnih sistemih in
– uporabljajo izmenični tok linijskega vodnika, kot je navedeno v standardu EN 50163.
OPOMBA 1 Standard EN 50163 določa vlečne sisteme z izmeničnim tokom 15 kV 16,7 Hz in 25 kV 50 Hz. OPOMBA 2 Ker so tiri vlečnih sistemov z izmeničnim tokom ozemljeni in vključeni v pot povratnega toka, bodo vsi vodniki do ozemljitve v mejah toka, ki so določene v standardu EN 50163. Kljub temu so lahko napetosti med vodniki višje kot na primer v sistemih z avtotransformatorji. Ta evropski standard se uporablja tudi za upravljalne naprave za tokovne odklopnike in njihovo zunanjo opremo. Ta evropski standard ne obravnava tokovnih odklopnikov z odvisnimi ročnimi upravljalnimi mehanizmi. OPOMBA 3 Za te tokovne odklopnike je nemogoče določiti naznačeni tok, ki povzroča kratki stik, in je zato verjetno, da tako odvisno ročno opravljanje ne upošteva varnostnih zahtev.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 08-Nov-2012
• ICS: 29.120.40 - Switches
• ICS: 29.280 - Electric traction equipment
• ICS: 45.020 - Railway engineering in general
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 9X - Electrical and electronic applications for railways
• Drafting Committee: CLC/SC 9XC - Electric supply and earthing systems for public transport equipment and ancillary apparatus (fixed i
• Parallel Committee: IEC/TC 9 - IEC_TC_9
• Current Stage: 9093 - Decision to confirm - Review Enquiry
• Completion Date: 14-Sep-2022
• Ref Project: SIST EN 50152-1:2013 - Railway applications - Fixed installations - Particular requirements for alternating current switchgear - Part 1: Circuit-breakers with nominal voltage above 1 kV

Relations

• Replaces: EN 50152-1:2007 - Railway applications - Fixed installations - Particular requirements for a.c. switchgear - Part 1: Single-phase circuit-breakers with Un above 1 kV
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023
• Amended By: EN 50152-1:2012/A1:2013 - Railway applications - Fixed installations - Particular requirements for alternating current switchgear - Part 1: Circuit-breakers with nominal voltage above 1 kV
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

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Railway applications - Fixed installations - Particular requirements for alternating current
switchgear - Part 1: Circuit-breakers with nominal voltage above 1 kV
Bahnanwendungen - Ortsfeste Anlagen - Besondere Anforderungen an Wechselstrom-
Schalteinrichtungen - Teil 1: Leistungsschalter mit einer Nennspannung größer als 1 kV
Applications ferroviaires - Installations fixes - Spécifications particulières pour
appareillage à courant alternatif - Partie 1: Disjoncteurs de tension nominale supérieure
à 1 kV
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 50152-1:2012
ICS:
29.130.99 Druge stikalne in krmilne Other switchgear and
naprave controlgear
29.280 (OHNWULþQDYOHþQDRSUHPD Electric traction equipment
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 50152-1
NORME EUROPÉENNE
November 2012
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 29.120.40; 29.280 Supersedes EN 50152-1:2007

English version
Railway applications -
Fixed installations -
Particular requirements for alternating current switchgear -
Part 1: Circuit-breakers with nominal voltage above 1 kV

Applications ferroviaires -  Bahnanwendungen -
Installations fixes - Ortsfeste Anlagen – Besondere
Spécifications particulières pour Anforderungen an Wechselstrom-
appareillage à courant alternatif - Schalteinrichtungen – Teil 1:
Partie 1: Disjoncteurs de tension nominale Leistungsschalter mit einer
supérieure à 1 kV Nennspannung größer als 1 kV

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2012-10-15. CENELEC members are bound to comply
with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard
the status of a national standard without any alteration.

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Ref. No. EN 50152-1:2012 E
Contents
Page
Introduction . - 5 -
1 Scope . - 6 -
2 Normative references . - 6 -
3 Terms and definitions . - 6 -
4 Service conditions . - 7 -
5 Rating . - 8 -
5.1 General . - 8 -
5.2 Nominal voltage (U ) . - 8 -
n
5.3 Rated voltage (U ) . - 8 -
Ne
5.4 Insulation coordination . - 8 -
5.5 Rated frequency [4.3] . - 9 -
5.6 Rated supply voltage of closing and opening devices and of auxiliary and control
circuits (U ) [4.8] . - 9 -
a
5.7 Rated short-circuit breaking current (I ) [4.101]. - 9 -
SC
5.8 Transient Recovery Voltage (TRV) related to the rated short-circuit breaking current
[4.102] . - 10 -
5.9 Rated short-circuit making current [4.103] . - 11 -
5.10 Rated operating sequence [4.104] . - 11 -
5.11 Characteristics for short line faults [4.105] . - 11 -
5.12 Rated out-of-phase making and breaking current [4.106] . - 12 -
5.13 Rated capacitive switching currents [4.107] . - 12 -
5.14 Number of mechanical operations [4.110] . - 12 -
6 Design and construction [5] . - 13 -
6.1 General . - 13 -
6.2 Nameplates [5.10] . - 13 -
6.3 Creepage distances [5.14] . - 13 -
6.4 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) [5.18] . - 13 -
6.5 Safety overpressure device . - 13 -
7 Type tests [6] . - 13 -
7.1 General . - 13 -
7.2 Dielectric tests [6.2] . - 13 -
7.3 Electromagnetic compatibility tests (EMC) [6.9] . - 14 -
7.4 Mechanical and environmental tests [6.101] . - 14 -
7.5 Miscellaneous provisions for making and breaking tests [6.102] . - 14 -
7.6 Test circuit for short circuit making and breaking tests [6.103] . - 17 -
7.7 Short-circuit test quantities [6.104] . - 17 -
7.8 Basic short-circuit test-duties [6.106] . - 19 -
7.9 Single-phase and double-earth fault tests [6.108] . - 19 -
7.10 Short-line fault tests [6.109] . - 19 -
7.11 Out-of-phase making and breaking tests [6.110] . - 19 -
7.12 Capacitive current switching tests [6.111] . - 20 -
8 Routine tests [7] . - 20 -
9 Guidance to the selection of circuit-breakers for service [8] . - 20 -
10 Information to be given with enquiries, tenders and orders [9] . - 21 -
11 Rules for transport, storage, erection, operation and maintenance [10] . - 21 -
12 Safety [11] . - 21 -
13 Influence of the product on the environment [12] . - 21 -
Bibliography . - 22 -

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Tables
Table 1  Nominal voltages (U ), rated impulse voltages (U ) and short-duration power-frequency
n Ni
withstand voltage (U ) for circuits connected to the contact line . - 9 -
d
Table 2  Standard values of transient recovery voltage - Representation by two parameters . - 11 -
Table 3  Preferred values of rated capacitive switching currents . - 12 -
Table 4  Mechanical endurance classes . - 13 -
Table 5  Standard values of prospective transient recovery voltage - Representation by two

parameters . - 18 -
Table 6  Specified values U , t , U and t . - 20 -
1 1 c 2
Foreword
This document (EN 50152-1:2012) has been prepared by CLC/SC 9XC "Electric supply and earthing
systems for public transport equipment and ancillary apparatus (Fixed installations)".
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which this document has to be (dop) 2013-10-15
implemented at national level by publication of
an identical national standard or by
endorsement
(dow) 2015-10-15
• latest date by which the national standards
conflicting with this document have to
be withdrawn
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document supersedes EN 50152-1:2007.
This standard was revised to reflect the latest versions of standards referenced and to remove text already
included in the EN 62271 series. The scope was extended to include single-phase and two-phase circuit
breakers. Definitions were added to provide the necessary precision and to meet the needs of railway
applications. Table 1 was reworked according to the changes of EN 50124-1:2001, Table A.2 and Table B.1.
Standard values of transient recovery voltage have been taken from different tables to one, Table 2. Ratings
of mechanical endurance previously given under the clause ‘type tests’ were moved to the new Table 4
‘Mechanical endurance classes’. Standard values of prospective transient recovery voltage have been taken
from different tables to one, Table 5. Table 6 ‘Coordination table of rated values for circuit-breakers’ of the
previous version was removed.
EN 50152 series under the generic title Railway applications  Fixed installations  Particular requirements
for alternating current switchgear is divided as follows:
- Part 1: Circuit-breakers with nominal voltage above 1 kV;
- Part 2: Disconnectors, earthing switches and switches with nominal voltage above 1 kV;
- Part 3-1: Measurement, control and protection devices for specific use in a.c. traction systems 
Application guide;
- Part 3-2: Measurement, control and protection devices for specific use in a.c. traction systems  Single-
phase current transformers;
- Part 3-3: Measurement, control and protection devices for specific use in a.c. traction systems  Single-
phase inductive voltage transformers.

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Introduction
This standard needs to be read in conjunction with EN 62271-1:2008 and EN 62271-100:2009.
Where a particular clause of EN 62271-100 is not mentioned in this standard, that clause applies as far as
reasonable. Where requirements relate exclusively to three-phase systems or to voltages outside those in
use in traction systems, they are not applicable. Where this standard states "addition" or "replacement", the
relevant text of EN 62271-100 needs to be adapted accordingly.
The numbering of clauses in EN 62271 series is not used in this European Standard. The numbering in
square brackets refers to the numbering of clauses in EN 62271.
Where terms defined in EN
...