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    1. This regulatory guide provides guidance for complying with NRC criteria regarding thermal overload protection devices for electric motors on motor-operated valves important to nuclear safety. 2. Thermal overload relays, which protect continuous-duty motors, may inadvertently activate for intermittent-duty motors on valves if successive starts cause cumulative heating. This could hinder valves' safety functions. 3. The guide describes two acceptable methods to address this: 1) account for intermittent duty in overload trip settings, or 2) locate overload devices inside containment with the motors to ensure consistent temperature sensing.

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    1. This regulatory guide provides guidance for complying with NRC criteria regarding thermal overload protection devices for electric motors on motor-operated valves important to nuclear safety. 2. Thermal overload relays, which protect continuous-duty motors, may inadvertently activate for intermittent-duty motors on valves if successive starts cause cumulative heating. This could hinder valves' safety functions. 3. The guide describes two acceptable methods to address this: 1) account for intermittent duty in overload trip settings, or 2) locate overload devices inside containment with the motors to ensure consistent temperature sensing.

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    1. This regulatory guide provides guidance for complying with NRC criteria regarding thermal overload protection devices for electric motors on motor-operated valves important to nuclear safety. 2. Thermal overload relays, which protect continuous-duty motors, may inadvertently activate for intermittent-duty motors on valves if successive starts cause cumulative heating. This could hinder valves' safety functions. 3. The guide describes two acceptable methods to address this: 1) account for intermittent duty in overload trip settings, or 2) locate overload devices inside containment with the motors to ensure consistent temperature sensing.

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    1. This regulatory guide provides guidance for complying with NRC criteria regarding thermal overload protection devices for electric motors on motor-operated valves important to nuclear safety. 2. Thermal overload relays, which protect continuous-duty motors, may inadvertently activate for intermittent-duty motors on valves if successive starts cause cumulative heating. This could hinder valves' safety functions. 3. The guide describes two acceptable methods to address this: 1) account for intermittent duty in overload trip settings, or 2) locate overload devices inside containment with the motors to ensure consistent temperature sensing.

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    Revision 1

    March 1977
    U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

    REGULATORY"GUIDE
    OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT

    REGULATORY GUIDE 1.106


    THERMAL OVERLOAD PROTECTION FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS
    ON MOTOR-OPERATED VALVES

    A. INTRODUCTION motor starter for electric motors on motor-operated


    valves. This method would ensure that the thermal
    Criterion 1, "Quality Standards and Records," of overload protection devices will not needlessly pre
    Appendix A, "General Design Criteria for Nuclear vent the motor from performing its safety-related
    Power Plants," to 10 CFR Part 50, "Licensing of function. The Advisory Committee on Reactor.,
    Production and Utilization Facilities," requires, in Safeguards has been consulted concerning this guide
    part, that components important to safety be and has concurred in the regulatory position.
    designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to quality
    standards commensurate with the importance of the
    safety functions to be performed. B. DISCUSSION
    Criterion 4, "Environmental and Missile Design Motor-operated valves with thermal overload
    Bases," of Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 50 requires, in protection devices for the valve motors are used in
    part, that components important to safety be safety systems and in their auxiliary supporting
    designed to accommodate the effects of and be com systems. Operating experience has shown that in
    patible with the environmental conditions associated discriminate application of thermal overload protec
    with normal, operation, maintenance, testing, and tion devices to these valve motors could result in
    postulated accidents, including loss-of-coolant acci needless hindrance to successful completion of safety
    dents. functions.
    Criterion 13, "Instrumentation and Control," of
    Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 50 requires that in Thermal overload relays are designed primarily to
    strumentation be provided to monitor variables and protect continuous-duty motors while they are run
    systems over their anticipated ranges for normal ning rather than during starting. Use of these
    operation and for postulated accident conditions and overload devices to protect intermittent-duty motors
    that controls be provided to maintain these variables may therefore result in undesired actuation of the
    and systems within prescribed operating ranges. devices if the cumulative effect of heating caused by
    successive starts at short intervals is not taken into
    Criterion XI, "Test Control," of Appendix B, account in determining the overload trip setting.
    "Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Power
    Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants," to 10 CFR
    Part 50 requires, in part, that a test program be es It is generally very difficult for any thermally sen
    tablished to ensure that systems and components per sitive device to approximate adequately the varying
    form satisfactorily and that the test program include thermal characteristics of an intermittent-duty motor
    operational tests during nuclear power plant opera over its full range of starting and loading conditions.
    tion. This is mainly caused by the Wide variations in motor
    heating curves for various sizes and designs and also
    This regulatory guide describes a method accept by the difficulty in obtaining motor heating data to
    able to the NRC staff for complying with the above an acceptable accuracy.
    "01
    criteria with regard to the application of thermal
    overload protection devices that are integral with the
    0 Lines indicate substantive changes from previous issue.

    sent to the Secretary


    should beWashington. of the Commission. Nuclear
    US. ing Regu
    USNRC REGULATORY GUIDES Comments
    latory, Commission. D.C. 20555. Attention: Docket &nW Servce
    tranch.
    Regulatory Guides are issued to describe and make available to the public methods
    acceptable to the NRC staff of implementing specific parts of the Commission's
    The guides se issued in the following ten broad divisions:
    regulations, to delineate techniques used by the staff in evaluating specific problems
    or postulated accidents, or to provide &uidance to applicants. Regulatory Guides
    1. Power Reactors 6. Products
    are not substitutes for regulations, and compliance with them is not required. 7. Transportation
    accept- 2. Research and Test Reactors
    Methods and solutions different from those set out In the guides will be
    4. Environmental andcSiting 9. Antitrust Review
    able if they provide abasis for the findings requisite to the issuance or continuance
    of . permit or license by the Commission. 5. Materials and Plant Protection 10. General

    Comments and suwestions for improvements In these guides ae encouraged at all Requests for single copies of Issued guides (which may be reproduced) or for place
    times, and guides will be revised. as appropriate, to accommodate commeMts and ment on an automatic distribution list for single copies of future guides in specific
    to reflect new information or experience. -This guide was revised as a mull of divisions should be made in writing to the US. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    Washington, D.C. 2055./Attention: Director. Division of Document Control.
    substantive comments received from the public and additional staff review.
    Since the trip function in a thermal overload device C. REGULATORY POSITION
    is dependent on temperature, the degree of overload
    protection provided is affected by change in ambient In order to ensure that safety-related motor
    temperature at the motor or starter location. This operated valves whose motors are equipped with
    aspect becomes more complex in nuclear power plant thermal overload protection devices integral with the
    motor starter will perform their function, one of the
    K
    applications where, in some cases, the motor to be
    two alternatives described in regulatory position I or
    protected is inside the containment and the overload
    the one described in regulatory position 2 should be
    protection devices are outside the containment. In
    implemented:
    such a situation, the temperature difference between
    the motor and the overload device could be as high as I. Provided that the completion of the safety func
    2000 F under design basis conditions. Thus, the selec tion is not jeopardized or that other safety systems
    tion of an appropriate trip setpoint for such a valve are not degraded, (a) the thermal overload protec
    motor should take into consideration operation of tion devices should be continuously bypassed and
    the valve under various temperatures for both normal temporarily placed in force only when the valve
    and postulated accident conditions, including loss-of motors are undergoing periodic or maintenance
    coolant accidents. testing or (b) those thermal overload protection
    devices that are normally in force during plant opera
    tion should be bypassed under accident conditions.
    The accuracy obtainable with the thermal overload
    relay trip generally varies from -5% to 0% of trip set The bypass initiation system circuitry should
    point. Since the primary concern in the application of conform to the criteria of Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,
    overload devices is to protect the motor windings 4.5, 4.10, and 4.13 of IEEE Std 279-1971, "Criteria
    against excessive heating, the above negative for Protection Systems for Nuclear Power
    tolerance in trip characteristics of the protection Generating Stations," and should be periodically
    device is considered in the safe direction for motor tested.
    protection. However, this conservative design feature 2. The trip setpoint of the thermal overload
    built into these overload devices for motor protection protection devices should be established with all un
    could interfere in the successful functioning of a certainties resolved in favor of completing the safety
    safety-related system; i.e., the thermal overload related action. With respect to those uncertainties,
    device could open to remove power from a motor consideration should be given to (a) variations in the
    before the safety function has been completed or even ambient temperature at the installed location of the
    initiated. In nuclear power plant application, the overload protection devices and the valve motors, (b)
    criterion for establishing an overload trip setpoint inaccuracies in motor heating data and the overload
    should be to complete the safety function (e.g., drive protection device trip characteristics and the
    the valve to its proper position to mitigate the effects matching of these two items, and (c) setpoint drift. In
    of an accident) rather than merely to protect the order to ensure continued functional reliability and
    motor from destructive heating. In some plants, the the accuracy of the trip point, the thermal overload
    thermal overload devices are bypassed during normal protection device should be periodically tested.
    plant operation, except that they are temporarily
    placed in force when the valve motors are undergoing D. IMPLEMENTATION
    periodic testing, The purpose of this section is to provide informa
    tion to applicants regarding the NRC staff's plans for
    using this regulatory guide.
    Where the thermal overload protection devices are
    bypassed, it is important to ensure that the bypassing This guide reflects current NRC staff practice.
    does not result in jeopardizing the completion of the Therefore, except in those cases in which the appli
    safety function or in degrading other safety systems cant proposes an acceptable alternative method for
    because of any sustained abnormal motor circuit cur complying with specified portions of the Commis
    rents that may be present. As an example, for small sion's regulations, the method described herein is be
    motors (1/2 horsepower or less), the magnetic trip ing and will continue to be used in the evaluation of
    devices provided in the motor combination starter submittals for construction permit applications until
    breaker may not adequately protect the circuit at all this guide is revised as a result of suggestions from the
    times against sustained locked-rotor currents. public or additional staff review.

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