{"title":"Effect of lightning on soil characteristics with and without underground cable","authors":"Swarnankur Ghosh, S. Das","doi":"10.1109/CIEC.2016.7513765","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Indirect lightning stroke i.e. discharge between cloud and ground has strong impact on the UG (Under Ground) cable insulation. In this paper, the impact of lightning stroke in UG cable is investigated. High current carried by lightning stroke to ground creates breakdown channel in soil if the resulting field exceeds soil breakdown strength. Through this channel current can reach cable and if the resulting field generated on cable surface exceeds breakdown strength of cable insulation then also the cable can damage. So proper assessment of Electric field distribution in soil and on cable surface due to lightning current is necessary to envisage proper planning of protection scheme and strategy for mitigating severity to UG cable. In this paper, a complete study is done to investigate electric field distribution in soil due to lightning stroke, minimum lightning current required for soil breakdown, current intercepted by buried cable and overvoltage generated on cable surface due to that current. Also the effects of various factors like soil resistivity, cable location, lightning strike position, lightning current etc. are studied.","PeriodicalId":443343,"journal":{"name":"2016 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Energy & Communication (CIEC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Energy & Communication (CIEC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIEC.2016.7513765","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Indirect lightning stroke i.e. discharge between cloud and ground has strong impact on the UG (Under Ground) cable insulation. In this paper, the impact of lightning stroke in UG cable is investigated. High current carried by lightning stroke to ground creates breakdown channel in soil if the resulting field exceeds soil breakdown strength. Through this channel current can reach cable and if the resulting field generated on cable surface exceeds breakdown strength of cable insulation then also the cable can damage. So proper assessment of Electric field distribution in soil and on cable surface due to lightning current is necessary to envisage proper planning of protection scheme and strategy for mitigating severity to UG cable. In this paper, a complete study is done to investigate electric field distribution in soil due to lightning stroke, minimum lightning current required for soil breakdown, current intercepted by buried cable and overvoltage generated on cable surface due to that current. Also the effects of various factors like soil resistivity, cable location, lightning strike position, lightning current etc. are studied.