Title :
The Influence of an Additional Substance in the Trenches Surrounding the Grounding Grid´s Conductors on the Grounding Grid´s Performance
Author :
A. Habjanic;M. Trlep;J. Pihler
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Maribor Univ.
fDate :
6/28/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In this paper, we present how the finite element method (FEM) can be utilized to analyze the influence of an additional substance in the trenches surrounding the grounding grid´s conductors on the grounding grid´s performance. For this purpose, we modified the preliminarily existent FIELD_GS program code in such a way that the additional substance in the immediate vicinity along the grounding grid´s conductors can be simulated. Different soil structures and various volumes of the additional substance in the soil have been analyzed to prove the suitability of surrounding the grounding grid´s conductors in trenches with the additional substance instead of strewing a whole grounding grid´s surface with the additional substance
Keywords :
"Grounding","Conductors","Soil","Conductivity","Surface resistance","Earth","Voltage","Computer science","Finite element methods","Performance analysis"
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetic Field Computation, 2006 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0320-0
DOI :
10.1109/CEFC-06.2006.1633223