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Earthing Worksheet

This document contains information and equations related to grounding system design. It includes sections on conductor sizing, electrode resistance, permissible voltages, and equations for calculating step voltage and touch voltage. Data values and calculated results are provided for sample grounding system designs.

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Earthing Worksheet

This document contains information and equations related to grounding system design. It includes sections on conductor sizing, electrode resistance, permissible voltages, and equations for calculating step voltage and touch voltage. Data values and calculated results are provided for sample grounding system designs.

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REFERENCE

Standard

Release December 2001 American National Standard IEEE 80-2000 (revision of Std 80-1986) Equation n 40, sheet 43 Equation n 52, sheet 65

Conductor sizing Electrode resistance Permissible potential difference Step voltage Touche voltage Design of grounding system Step voltage Touche voltage

Equations n 24,24a, sheet 46 Equations n 26,26a, sheet 46

Equations n 73, sheet 114 Equations n 72, sheet 114

Data value Calculated value

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Data value

Calculated value

CONDUCTOR SIZING
I Tm Ta Tr a0 ar rr K0 tc TCAP A r.m.s. current Maximum allowable temperature Ambiant temperature Reference temperature for material constants Thermal coeficient of resistivity at 0C Thermal coeficient of resistivity at reference temperature Tr Resistivity of the ground conductor at reference temperature Tr ( 1 / ar ) - Tr duration of current Thermal capacity per unit volume (table 1) Conductor cross section kA C C C 1/C 1/C mW x cm C s J/( cm3 C ) mm 58.00 1083.00 40.50 20.00 0.00 0.003930 1.724100 234.45 0.50 3.4220

145.79

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Unit

Data value

Calculated value

ELECTRODE RESISTANCE
r b a A h Db Da na na Lc Rg Soil resestivity Ground grid lenght Ground grid width Ground grid area Depth of ground grid conductors Spacing // conductors in length direction Spacing // conductors in width direction Number of // conductors in length direction Number of // conductors in width direction Length of ground grid conductor Ground grid resistance W-m m m m m m m 100.00 471.00 100.00 7000.00 1.00 10.00 10.00 48 11 9981.00

47100.00

m W

48 11 9981.00

0.53098

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Unit

Data value

Calculated value

ELECTRODE RESISTANCE
r b a A h Db Da na na Lc lr nr Lr L Rg Soil resestivity Ground grid lenght Ground grid width Ground grid area Depth of ground grid conductors Spacing // conductors in length direction Spacing // conductors in width direction Number of // conductors in length direction Number of // conductors in width direction Length of ground grid conductor Ground rod length Ground rod number Ground rod total length Total length of grounding system conductor Ground grid resistance W-m m m m m m m 100.00 471.00 100.00 47100.00 1.00 10.00 10.00 48 11 9981.00 6.00 18.00 108.00 10089.00

47100.00

m m m m W

48 11 9981.00

108.00 10089.00

0.21390

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ELECTRODE (+ROD) RESISTANCE

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Unit

Data value

Calculated value

ELECTRODE RESISTANCE
r b a A h Db Da na na Lc lr nr Lr L Rg Soil resestivity Ground grid lenght Ground grid width Ground grid area Depth of ground grid conductors Spacing // conductors in length direction Spacing // conductors in width direction Number of // conductors in length direction Number of // conductors in width direction Length of ground grid conductor Ground rod length Ground rod number Ground rod total length Total length of grounding system conductor Ground grid resistance W-m m m m m m m 80.00 100.00 70.00 7000.00 1.00 10.00 10.00 11 8 1570.00 3.00 20.00 60.00 1630.00

7000.00

m m m m W

11 8 1570.00

60.00 1630.00

0.46585

SECURITY VOLTAGE
IG ts S d rs hs Cs K Grid current Duration of shock current Grid conductor cross section Grid conductor diameter Surface layer resistivity Surface layer thickness Surface layer resistivity derating factor Reflexion factor kA s mm m W-m m 6.60 3.00 116.00 0.012 5000.00 0.15 0.77 -0.97

STEP VOLTAGE n Number of parallel conductors in one direction Kis Corrected factor for grid geometry D Maximum space between conductors Ks Spacing factor for step voltage Es Step voltage E step 50 E step 70 Tolerable step voltage for 50kg human body weight Tolerable step voltage for 70kg human body weight

11 2.548 10 0.220 V V V

181.47 1614.04 2184.52


9 2.270 0.535 1.414 10 0.914

TOUCH VOLTAGE n Number of parallel conductors in either direction Kim Corrected factor for grid geometry Kii Ponderation factor Kh Corrective weighting factor D Maximum space between conductors Km Spacing factor for touch voltage Em Mesh voltage E touch 50 E touch 70 Tolerable touch voltage for 50kg human body weight Tolerable touch voltage for 70kg human body weight

V V V

668.13 453.74 614.11

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