Why a low resistance to remote Earth is desirable and how to obtain it

Author

Farren, Ernest J. ; Hallmark, Clayton L.

Author_Institution

Bell Atlantic Network Services Inc., Buzzards Bay, MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

644

Lastpage

651

Abstract

A low-resistance facility ground connection helps provide effective for the protection of personnel, equipment and services against hazardous voltages and currents from lightning, power contacts and earth potentials, when used in a conscientiously applied program of electrical protection measures and regular maintenance. This paper shows several reasons why this is so and discusses the use of conductive cement to lower the resistance of traditional electrodes

Keywords

cements (building materials); earth electrodes; electric resistance; maintenance engineering; personnel; power system protection; safety; conductive cement; earth potentials; electrical protection measures; equipment protection; grounding electrodes; hazardous currents; hazardous voltages; lightning; low resistance to remote Earth; maintenance; personnel protection; power contacts; services protection; Contacts; Current measurement; Earth; Electric resistance; Electrical resistance measurement; Lightning; Personnel; Power measurement; Protection; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Energy Conference, 2000. INTELEC. Twenty-second International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6407-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.2000.884317

Filename

884317