Using circuit elements to represent the distributed parameters of a grounding system under lightning strokes

This work presents a proposal to represent electrical grounding systems directly in the time domain. The advantage in using this type of representation is that voltage and current are better understood in this domain, and the model can easily be inserted into conventional software such as the Altern...

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Autores: de Seixas, Claudiner Mendes, Kurokawa, Sérgio [UNESP]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/190217
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2019.03.013
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/190217
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Circuit synthesis
Frequency response
Grounding systems
Impedance
Lightning strokes
Time domain
Descripción
Sumario:This work presents a proposal to represent electrical grounding systems directly in the time domain. The advantage in using this type of representation is that voltage and current are better understood in this domain, and the model can easily be inserted into conventional software such as the Alternative Transient Program (ATP). The proposed method is applied to horizontal electrodes, vertical rods and grounding grids. The grounding is initially modelled in the frequency domain to obtain harmonic impedance, which is then represented by means of an approximation in the time domain, by passive elements (resistors, inductors and capacitors) associated in series and/or parallel. Validation was achieved by comparing the results with those obtained using the TLM (transmission line model), the HEM (hybrid electromagnetic model) and technical literature. The TLM and HEM were used to obtain the harmonic impedance of the grounding systems, but any other model could have been used, since this process has no effect on the proposed method, making the proposed method very versatile and attractive.