Measurement and prediction of electrical substation generated electromagnetic field

Author

Ma, Yan ; Karady, George G. ; Hunt, James R. ; Priest, Bryce L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr., Comput., & Energy Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A strong magnetic field exists within high voltage substations. People living close to these substations have expressed concern about the external electromagnetic field (EMF) generated from these substations. Salt River Project (SRP) utilizes EMF WorkStation, a simulation software package developed by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to evaluate the EMF level for existing and future substations. The objective of this study is to measure and map the EMF field inside a selected SRP urban substation, compare field measurement with simulation results, and then provide an independent and impartial evaluation of the EMF WorkStation software. The comparison results show that EMF WorkStation is able to provide acceptable estimation of the EMF generated by the substation.

Keywords

electric generators; electromagnetic fields; magnetic field measurement; power system measurement; software packages; substations; EMF workstation; Electric Power Research Institute; SRP urban substation; Salt River Project; electrical substation generated electromagnetic field; external electromagnetic field; high voltage substation; simulation software package; Current measurement; Humans; Legged locomotion; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Substations; Workstations; EMF; EMF WorkStation; Electromagnetic field; substation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1000-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2011.6039200

Filename

6039200