IEC TS 61000-5-10:2017

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Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) –
Part 5-10: Installation and mitigation guidelines – Guidance on the protection of
facilities against HEMP and IEMI
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IEC TS 61000-5-10 ®
Edition 1.0 2017-05
TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATION
colour
inside
BASIC EMC PUBLICATION
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) –

Part 5-10: Installation and mitigation guidelines – Guidance on the protection of

facilities against HEMP and IEMI

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ICS 33.100.20 ISBN 978-2-8322-4352-7

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 5
INTRODUCTION . 7
1 Scope . 8
2 Normative references . 8
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 9
3.1 Terms and definitions . 9
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 13
4 General . 13
5 Development of the environment levels . 14
5.1 General . 14
5.2 High-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) . 14
5.3 Intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI) . 15
5.4 Comparison of the HEMP and IEMI radiated fields . 15
6 Protection and testing approach for new facilities . 16
6.1 General . 16
6.2 HEMP protection for new facilities . 17
6.2.1 General . 17
6.2.2 Electromagnetic shield . 17
6.3 IEMI protection for new facilities . 21
6.4 HEMP and IEMI protection for new facilities . 22
7 Protection and testing approach for existing facilities . 22
7.1 General . 22
7.2 HEMP protection for existing facilities . 22
7.3 IEMI protection for existing facilities . 23
7.4 HEMP and IEMI protection for existing facilities . 24
8 Method to develop other shield-level examples . 25
9 Hardness maintenance . 25
9.1 General . 25
9.2 General annual maintenance . 25
9.3 PoE filter and MOV maintenance . 25
Annex A (informative) IEC SC 77C publications . 27
A.1 General . 27
A.2 IEC TR 61000-1-3: General – The effects of high-altitude EMP (HEMP) on
civil equipment and systems . 28
A.3 IEC TR 61000-1-5: General – High power electromagnetic (HPEM) effects
on civil systems . 28
A.4 IEC 61000-2: Environment – Section 9: Description of HEMP environment –
Radiated disturbance . 30
A.5 IEC 61000-2-10: Environment – Description of HEMP environment –
Conducted disturbance . 31
A.6 IEC 61000-2-11: Environment – Classification of HEMP environments . 35
A.7 IEC 61000-2-13: Environment – High-power electromagnetic (HPEM)
environments – Radiated and conducted . 36
A.8 IEC 61000-4-23: Testing and measurement techniques – Test methods for
protective devices for HEMP and other radiated disturbances . 38
A.9 IEC 61000-4-24: Testing and measurement techniques – Test methods for
protective devices for HEMP conducted disturbance . 41

A.10 IEC 61000-4-25: Testing and measurement techniques – HEMP immunity
test methods for equipment and systems . 42
A.11 IEC TR 61000-4-32: Testing and measurement techniques – High-altitude
electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) simulator compendium . 43
A.12 IEC 61000-4-33: Testing and measurement techniques – Measurement
methods for high-power transient parameters . 43
A.13 IEC TR 61000-4-35: Testing and measurement techniques – HPEM
simulator compendium . 44
A.14 IEC 61000-4-36: Testing and measurement techniques – IEMI immunity test
methods for equipment and systems . 44
A.15 IEC TR 61000-5-3: Installation and mitigation guidelines – HEMP protection
concepts . 45
A.16 IEC TR 61000-5: Installation and mitigation guidelines – Section 4:
Specifications for protective devices against HEMP radiated disturbance . 46
A.17 IEC 61000-5: Installation and mitigation guidelines – Section 5: Specification
of protective devices for HEMP conducted disturbance . 47
A.18 IEC TR 61000-5-6: Installation and mitigation guidelines – Mitigation of
external EM influences . 47
A.19 IEC 61000-5-7: Installation and mitigation guidelines – Degrees of protection
provided by enclosures against electromagnetic disturbances (EM code) . 49
A.20 IEC TS 61000-5-8: Installation and mitigation guidelines – HEMP protection
methods for the distributed infrastructure . 50
A.21 IEC TS 61000-5-9: Installation and mitigation guidelines – System-level
susceptibility assessments for HEMP and HPEM . 50
A.22 IEC 61000-6-6: Generic standards – HEMP immunity for indoor equipment . 52
Bibliography . 54

Figure 1 – Comparison of IEMI radiated environments with those of E1 HEMP and
lightning . 16
Figure 2 – Basic high frequency shielding approach for a building . 17
Figure A.1 – Organization of the current publications of IEC SC 77C . 27
Figure A.2 – Topological diagram for the simple system. 29
Figure A.3 – Illustration of typical HPEM inadvertent penetration protection methods . 30
Figure A.4 – Complete standard HEMP time waveform with the dashed line indicating
a negative value of the E3 HEMP waveform . 31
Figure A.5 – Amplitude spectrum of each HEMP component . 31
Figure A.6 – Simple equivalent circuit where E is the induced late time HEMP electric
field . 33
Figure A.7 – Several types of HPEM environments compared with the IEC E1 HEMP
waveform . 37
Figure A.8 – Typical configuration of a CW test facility . 39
Figure A.9 – Example scan from 9 kHz to 3 GHz for the ambient electromagnetic field
from communication signals . 39
Figure A.10 – Measurement methods for evaluating shielding effectiveness of high-
level shields . 40
Figure A.11 – Representation of typical IEMI radiation and coupling onto systems . 45
Figure A.12 – Example of penetration from radiated and conducted disturbances
through a two-barrier protection . 46
Figure A.13 – Generalised system topology . 48
Figure A.14 – Assessment methodology flowchart . 51

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Table 1 – Radiated and conducted environments for early time HEMP and concepts 1
to 6 (IEC 61000-6-6) . 19
Table A.1 – Early time HEMP conducted common-mode short-circuit current including
the time history and peak value I as a function of severity level, length L in m and
pk
ground conductivity in S/m . 32
Table A.2 – Intermediate time HEMP conducted common-mode short-circuit currents
including the time history and peak value I as a function of length
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