Electric Power ›› 2017, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (2): 150-156.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.2017.02.150.07

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Research on Calculation Method for Step Voltage Limitation of DC Grounding Electrode Based on Surface High-Resistance Covering

YANG Jian, PAN Wenxia, SUN Honghang   

  1. College of Energy and Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
  • Received:2016-11-01 Online:2017-02-20 Published:2017-02-22
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    This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51377047).

Abstract: In order to guarantee the human safety near the DC grounding electrode, the requirement of step voltage limit must be satisfied in grounding design. Based on the horizontal double-ring DC grounding electrode, the computation method of step voltage limit is studied under the condition of covering the ground surface of grounding electrode with high-resistance layer, and a new computational formula is given. And then the grounding characteristics under different soil conditions is analyzed by using the boundary element method. The investigation results show that the surface high-resistance covering can greatly improve the tolerance limit of the step voltage for human body. The thickness of high-resistance layer is suggested to be 10~20 cm. In order to substantially improve the tolerance limit, the resistivity of high-resistance covering is better to be greater than 1 000 Ω·m. It is also shown that the surface high-resistance covering has little influences on the grounding resistance, ground potential rise, step voltage and distribution of leakage current, and its influence on the metallic facilities can also be neglected.

Key words: DC grounding electrode, surface high-resistance covering, soil resistivity, step voltage, numerical analysis

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