Title
Computing transient voltages on grounding grids buried in homogeneous and stratified soils
Date Issued
28 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
São Paulo State University
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Grounding grids (GGs) are essential to guarantee protection to personnel and equipment in the electrical substation. In this context, GGs provide low impedance path to high currents during faults or lightning strikes to minimize the step and touch voltages. Several models to compute the impedance of the GG are presented in the literature combining distributed and lumped approach. In this paper, a lumped approach is developed to represent a GG composed by vertical (VEs) and horizontal electrodes (HEs). Electrodes are modelled individually by lumped models and implemented at the ATP-EMTP software. The grounding impedances of the VEs buried in a stratified soil are calculated by the quadripole approach and an electric circuit is obtained by the Vector Fitting technique. The HE representation is based on the electromagnetic radiation theory, where each segment of the conductor can be seen as a current-carrying conductor. Simulation results compared with the traditional models in the literature indicate a good performance of the lumped representation of the HV and VE for a frequency range that varies from 100 Hz up 10 MHz. Additionally, results have shown that when VES are inserted in GGs and another layer of soil is considered, the GPR and node voltages are significantly reduced.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85100840713
Resource of which it is part
2020 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exhibition - Latin America, T and D LA 2020
ISBN of the container
9781728141558
Conference
2020 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exhibition - Latin America, T and D LA 2020 Montevideo 28 September 2020 through 2 October 2020
Sponsor(s)
This study received Financial support from São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (Grant: 2019/01396-1).
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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