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As a safety measure for certain applications in Nuclear. Power Stations, cable trays must be wrapped with a fireproof material. In this paper a new implementation of a thermal model is presented, suitable for the determination of the ampacity derating of electric cables in wrapped trays. Model simulation predictions have been compared with field tests to validate the model. Better agreement between simulations and experimental results is obtained when the standard procedure to determine the power loss in the cable mass is modified to account for the actual measured height of the cable mass in the tray. Keywords: Ampacity, Insulated Conductors, Fire Protection, Thermal Influences.

This letter describes a new voltage controlled bus (PV bus) representation in connection with the three-phase current injection method-TCIM of power flow analysis. This representation requires an augmented system of linearized equations to incorporate the reactive power as a dependent variable. Tests and comparisons between the former and the new approach are described and the improved stiffness of this new proposition is demonstrated. Index Terms--Current injection power flow, distribution power flow, PV buses, unbalanced power flow.