Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain

Substation is a part of component that grants the successful of operation in power system. In general, it can be considered as heart of overall power system. Well-designed grounding plays an important role in every substation. As lightning strike on transmission tower, the high current should be dir...

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Main Author: Mat Zain, Zulhisham
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Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/84717/1/84717.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.847172024-02-14T02:32:43Z Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain 2013 Mat Zain, Zulhisham Substation is a part of component that grants the successful of operation in power system. In general, it can be considered as heart of overall power system. Well-designed grounding plays an important role in every substation. As lightning strike on transmission tower, the high current should be directed to ground in proper manner. Thus, grounding system has to be design with safe as it is especially concerned with safety of persons working within the substation, equipment's and it surrounding with hazardous of step and touch voltage. The main purpose of this paper is designing safe grounding systems with cost effective for HV (High Voltage) substations situated at such locations where soil of the substation site is not uniform. Next, two case study have been solved by using computer program package CDEGS (Current Distribution, Electromagnetic Fields, Grounding and Soil Structure Analysis), Auto grid Pro and results obtained here are compared with manual calculation. Possible design improvements are introduced and compared for their effectiveness from safety and cost efficiency perspectives. 2013 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/84717/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/84717/1/84717.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Electrical Engineering Wan Abdul Munim, Wan Noraishah
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advisor Wan Abdul Munim, Wan Noraishah
description Substation is a part of component that grants the successful of operation in power system. In general, it can be considered as heart of overall power system. Well-designed grounding plays an important role in every substation. As lightning strike on transmission tower, the high current should be directed to ground in proper manner. Thus, grounding system has to be design with safe as it is especially concerned with safety of persons working within the substation, equipment's and it surrounding with hazardous of step and touch voltage. The main purpose of this paper is designing safe grounding systems with cost effective for HV (High Voltage) substations situated at such locations where soil of the substation site is not uniform. Next, two case study have been solved by using computer program package CDEGS (Current Distribution, Electromagnetic Fields, Grounding and Soil Structure Analysis), Auto grid Pro and results obtained here are compared with manual calculation. Possible design improvements are introduced and compared for their effectiveness from safety and cost efficiency perspectives.
format Thesis
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author Mat Zain, Zulhisham
spellingShingle Mat Zain, Zulhisham
Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain
author_facet Mat Zain, Zulhisham
author_sort Mat Zain, Zulhisham
title Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain
title_short Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain
title_full Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain
title_fullStr Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / Zulhisham Mat Zain
title_sort evaluation of lightning and grounding system design in high voltage substation / zulhisham mat zain
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2013
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/84717/1/84717.pdf
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