Title : 
Earthing system’s design in presence of non-uniform soil
         
        
            Author : 
Campoccia, Angelo ; Sanseverino, Eleonora Riva ; Zizzo, Gaetano
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Univ. of Palermo, Palermo
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The authors propose a practical approach for facing the problem of the design of the earthing systems in two-layer soils. The approach is based on the calculation of an equivalent resistivity of the non-uniform soil through which the designer can treat this one as it was uniform. The purpose of the Authors is to provide an innovative simple method and some easy-to-use graphs for an easy earthing systems´ design in two-layer soils.
         
        
            Keywords : 
earthing; soil; earthing system design; equivalent resistivity; non-uniform soil; two-layer soils; Conducting materials; Conductivity; Design engineering; Earth; Electrodes; Grounding; Shape; Soil; Surface resistance; Voltage; mutation rate; parallel computer; power system stabilizer; search space establishment-less type genetic algorithm; series compensation method;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electrical Power Quality and Utilisation, 2007. EPQU 2007. 9th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Barcelona
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-84-690-9441-9
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-84-690-9441-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EPQU.2007.4424077