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Grounding Calculation

The document provides specifications for designing an electrical grounding system, including: 1) Soil resistivity measurements at various depths; 2) Calculations of maximum step and touch voltages, grounding resistance, and mesh size/spacing to meet tolerances; 3) Determination that the final design with a grid length of 5,208 m and spacing of 0.25 m achieves a step voltage of 88.55V, below the acceptable limit.

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Grounding Calculation

The document provides specifications for designing an electrical grounding system, including: 1) Soil resistivity measurements at various depths; 2) Calculations of maximum step and touch voltages, grounding resistance, and mesh size/spacing to meet tolerances; 3) Determination that the final design with a grid length of 5,208 m and spacing of 0.25 m achieves a step voltage of 88.55V, below the acceptable limit.

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Data Fault Current (rms) Required grounding resistance Soil Resistivity Depth of ground grid conductors Total area

enclosed by ground grid Spacing between mesh conductors Total length of grid conductor Total length of ground rod Total length of grounding system conductors (grid + ground rod) If Rg 25 kA 0.5 78.38 1.2 11,239 5 6,128 (-m) m m2 m m

h A D LC LR LT

720 m 6,848 m

Minimum Conductor Size Cross-Section of the conductor Minimum conductor size in biddoc is 120 mm , so BCC 120 will be used Diameter of BCC 120 d 0.014 m
2

Acal

2 80.80 mm

Tolerable Step and Touch Voltage

E step70 1000 6 C s s

0.157 ts
0.157 ts
Cs ts Estep Etouch 1 0.4 s 364 V 277 V no surface layer, Cs = 1, s =

Etouch70 1000 1.5 Cs s

Surface layer derating factor Duration of shock current

Estimate preliminary resistance Minimum value of grounding resistance:

Rg


4 A

Rg

0.328

Upper limit of the grounding resistance:

Rg

LT
Rg 0.339 OK Rg is below biddoc req which is 0.5 Ohm

Determine the grid mesh and step voltage Mesh voltage LM = LC + LR = 6,848 m

Kii Kh Km

1 1.48 2.43

LP Lx Ly Dm na nb nc nd n Ki

718 m 85 m 94 m 126 m 17 1.30 0.71 0.99 15.78 2.98

perimeter length of the grid maximum length of the grid in the x direction maximum length of the grid in the y direction

maximum distance between any two points on the g

IG 25,000 A Em Step voltage 661.39 V redesign

LS

5,208 m

KS Es

0.25 88.55 V OK

Point 1 2 3 4 5

0.8 m Depth Resistivity 0.63-1.11 228.61 0-1.51 489.79 0-0.82 117.44 0-3.88 78.38 0.65-1.37 329.21

1.2 m Depth Resistivity 1.11-5.51 18.65 0-1.51 489.79 0.82-3.23 13.9 0-3.88 78.38 0.65-1.37 329.21

1.4 m Depth Resistivity 1.11-5.51 18.65 0-1.51 489.79 0.82-3.23 13.9 0-3.88 78.38 1.37-7.38 31.2

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