HUANG Huan, GUO Jie, WEI Qi, et al. Analysis of Tower Grounding Impedance Under Lightning Impulse by Finite Element Method[J]. High voltageapparatus, 2019, 55(4): 217-222.
HUANG Huan, GUO Jie, WEI Qi, et al. Analysis of Tower Grounding Impedance Under Lightning Impulse by Finite Element Method[J]. High voltageapparatus, 2019, 55(4): 217-222. DOI: 10.13296/j.1001-1609.hva.2019.04.031.
Analysis of Tower Grounding Impedance Under Lightning Impulse by Finite Element Method
Operating experiences of power system shows that most of accidents occurred at transmission lines were caused by lightning. The lightning current flowing through tower grounding electrode can be dozens or even hundreds thousands amps
which leads to non-linear spark effect in the soil around the electrode. In order to improve the lightning prevention of transmission lines
it is necessary to take the non-linear spark effect into consideration in the simulation of tower grounding electrode
which is essential for the design. In this article
a new model based on Maxwell differential equations is built and finite element method is used to calculate the model by COMSOL-multiphysics software. Also
the non-linear sparking discharge phenomenon in soil is considered. With this model
a grounding electrode simulation with a high amplitude can be done. The results show that the deviation between the simulation model and the experiment result is less than 10%. With the increase of the amplitude of the lightning current
grounding impedance decline and will be saturated. The grounding impedance increases with the increase of the lightning frequency.