Title
Computation of ground potential rise and grounding impedance of simple arrangement of electrodes buried in frequency-dependent stratified soil
Date Issued
01 September 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
de Araújo A.R.J.
de Seixas C.M.
Kurokawa S.
Salarieh B.
Pissolato Filho J.
Kordi B.
São Paulo State University
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Grounding electrodes are used to provide a low-impedance dissipation path for the excess lightning or fault currents. Several studies have been dedicated to the computation of the grounding impedance of different electrode arrangements considering either the frequency dependence of soil parameters (resistivity ρ and relative permittivity εr) or the multi-layer nature of soil. This paper aims at the calculation of the grounding impedance and the ground potential rise (GPR) of simple electrode arrangements (vertical and cross electrodes) due to the injection of first and subsequent lightning currents in various configurations of soil, considering a frequency-dependent stratified soil. A frequency-domain full-wave electromagnetic solver based on the Method of Moment (MoM) that employs a stratified medium Green's function is used to compute the grounding impedance in a frequency range of 100Hz to 10MHz. The transient GPRs are computed using the equivalent circuit of the grounding system, obtained through the application of the Vector Fitting (VF) technique and recursive convolution method. The simulation results show that considering the frequency dependence of the soil parameters has no effect on the low-frequency grounding impedance up to ≈10kHz. However, the frequency dependence of soil parameters leads to a considerable variation of the grounding impedance at higher frequencies especially for soils of higher resistivity. Furthermore, it is shown that considering the layers of soil has a more significant impact on the GPR of the vertical electrode than that of the cross electrode.
Volume
198
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85106520489
Source
Electric Power Systems Research
ISSN of the container
03787796
DOI of the container
10.1016/j.epsr.2021.107364
Sponsor(s)
This study was supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (Grant: 2019/01396-1 ).
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