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Transformer
110 / 132 kV
132/66/11 kV
Main substation
400 V
Secondary
substation
Distribution
11/22 kV substation
Power System
Transmission Lines: Electrical
Characteristics
1) Safety for Human life/ Building/Equipments:
To save human life from danger of electrical shock or death by blowing a fuse i.e. To provide an
alternative path for the fault current to flow so that it will not endanger the user
To protect buildings, machinery & appliances under fault conditions.
To ensure that all exposed conductive parts do not reach a dangerous potential.
To provide safe path to dissipate lightning and short circuit currents.
To provide stable platform for operation of sensitive electronic equipments i.e. To maintain the
voltage at any part of an electrical system at a known value so as to prevent over current or
excessive voltage on the appliances or equipment .
(2) Over voltage protection:
Lightning, line surges or unintentional contact with higher voltage lines can cause dangerously
high voltages to the electrical distribution system. Earthing provides an alternative path around
the electrical system to minimize damages in the System.
(3) Voltage stabilization:
There are many sources of electricity. Every transformer can be considered a separate source. If
there were not a common reference point for all these voltage sources it would be extremely
difficult to calculate their relationships to each other. The earth is the most omnipresent
conductive surface, and so it was adopted in the very beginnings of electrical distribution
systems as a nearly universal standard for all electric systems.
Factors affecting on Earth resistivity:
(1) Soil Resistivity:
It is the resistance of soil to the passage of electric current. The earth resistance value (ohmic
value) of an earth pit depends on soil resistivity. It is the resistance of the soil to the passage of
electric current.
It varies from soil to soil. It depends on the physical composition of the soil, moisture, dissolved
salts, grain size and distribution, seasonal variation, current magnitude etc.
In depends on the composition of soil, Moisture content, Dissolved salts, grain size and its
distribution, seasonal variation, current magnitude.
(2) Soil Condition:
Different soil conditions give different soil resistivity. Most of the soils are very poor conductors
of electricity when they are completely dry. Soil resistivity is measured in ohm-meters or ohm-
cm.
Soil plays a significant role in determining the performance of Electrode.
Soil with low resistivity is highly corrosive. If soil is dry then soil resistivity value will be very high.
If soil resistivity is high, earth resistance of electrode will also be high.
(3) Moisture:
Moisture has a great influence on resistivity value of soil. The resistivity of a soil can be
determined by the quantity of water held by the soil and resistivity of the water itself.
Conduction of electricity in soil is through water.
The resistance drops quickly to a more or less steady minimum value of about 15% moisture.
And further increase of moisture level in soil will have little effect on soil resistivity. In many
locations water table goes down in dry weather conditions. Therefore, it is essential to pour
water in and around the earth pit to maintain moisture in dry weather conditions. Moisture
9) Effect of current magnitude:
Soil resistivity in the vicinity of ground electrode may be affected by current flowing from the
electrode into the surrounding soil.
The thermal characteristics and the moisture content of the soil will determine if a current of a
given magnitude and duration will cause significant drying and thus increase the effect of soil
resistivity
Maintain less than one Ohm Resistance from EARTH PIT conductor to a distance of 15 Meters
around the EARTH PIT with another conductor dip on the Earth at least 500 mm deep. Check
Voltage between Earth Pit conductors to Neutral of Mains Supply 220V AC 50 Hz it should be
less than 2.0 Volts.
Maximum allowable Earth resistance:
Major power station= 0.5 Ohm.
Major Sub-stations= 1.0 Ohm
Minor Sub-station = 2 Ohm
Neutral Bushing. =2 Ohm
Service connection = 4 Ohm
Medium Voltage Network =2 Ohm
L.T.Lightening Arrestor= 4 Ohm
L.T.Pole= 5 Ohm
H.T.Pole =10 Ohm
Tower =20-30 Ohm
The different methodologies are adopted for earthing grid designs. Here we
adopted universal method as per IEEE-80.
An earthing design starts with a site analysis, collection of geological data, and
soil resistivity of the area. Typically, the site engineer or equipment manufacturers
specify a resistance-to-earth number. The National Electric Code (NEC) states that the
resistance-to-ea th shall ot e eed 5 fo a si gle ele t ode. Ho e e , so e
reputed manufacturers will often specify a d .5 , depe di g upo the e ui e e ts
of their equipment and safety. When designing a
earthing system, the difficulty and costs increase extremely as the target resistance-toearth
approaches the unobtainable goal of zero
Most affected parameters for the Earth Mat design are:
Magnitude of Fault Current
Duration of Fault.
Soil Resistivity
Resistivity of Surface Material (soil structure and soil model )
Shock Duration.
Material of Earth Mat Conductor
Earthing Mat Geometry (Area covered by Earth mat).
Permissible touch and step potentials
The design parameters are :
Size of Earth Grid Conductor
Safe Step and Touch Potential
Mesh Potential (Emesh)
Grid configureuration for Safe Operation
Number of Electrodes required
The earth resistance shall be as low as possible and shall not
exceed the
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