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SafeGrid Earthing Software complies with IEEE Std 80 and IEC 60479. Project: Project Scenario: Scenario 1 Design Inputs Table 1: Soil characteristics Model Specify soil model parameters Top layer resistivity (Ohm.m) 100 Top layer depth (m) 3 Bottom layer resistivity (Ohm.m) 50 Table 2: Grid energisation Current (A) 30000

Units Magnitude

Table 3: Grid and rod conductor size Method Calculate grid conductor size Conductor radius (mm) 5.937075

Refer to separate page for conductor size calculation.

Table 4: Measurement units Metric Table 5: System Frequency (Hz) 50

Units

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Conductor Ampacity Calculation in accordance with IEEE Std 80 Table 6: User Inputs Copper, commercial hard-drawn (97% Conductor type conductivity) Symmetrical RMS current magnitude 30 (kA) Maximum fault duration (s) Ambient temperature (deg.C) Maximum allowable temperature Maximum temperature (deg.C) Decrement factor Decrement factor value X/R ratio System frequency (Hz) 1 40 Fusing temperature 450 Default 1.031 20 50

Table 7: Material constants of conductor Reference temperature for material 20 constants (deg.C) Thermal coefficient of resistivity at 0.00381 reference temperature (1/deg.C) Fusing temperature of conductor (deg.C) 1084 Resistivity of conductor at reference 1.78 temperature (microOhms.cm) Thermal capacity per unit volume 3.42 (J/cm^3.deg.C) Table 8: Results - minimum conductor size Conductor cross-sectional area (mm2) 110.737550 Conductor radius (mm) 5.937075

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Buried Grid Model Table 9: Segments No. of segments accounting for intersections only No. of segments after segmentation (for accuracy) Fault location (segment no.) Total length of conductor network (m) 95 95 1 793.012

Figure 1: Buried grid preview

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Safety Criteria (ISAFE) Calculation Table 10: Safety standard (body resistance) Fibrillation current method Body resistance curve (IEC) Conditions (IEC) Foot resistance calculation method Additional series resistance (i.e. shoe or glove) (Ohms) Fault clearing time (s) System frequency (Hz) System X/R ratio Decrement factor Decrement factor value Sub-surface layer resistivity (Ohm.m) Use top layer soil resistivity? (True/False) Surface material resistivity (Ohm.m) Surface layer depth (m) User Inputs IEEE 70kg - IEEE IEEE80:2000 0 1 50 20 Default 1.03134 100 TRUE 3000 0.1

Table 11: Results Allowable Touch Voltage Limit (V) 629.344095 Allowable Step Voltage Limit (V) 2060.688916 Permissible body current (A) 0.157 Body resistance (Ohms) 1000

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Method of Images Grounding (MOI-GND) Modelling Table 12: Results Grid Impedance (Ohms) Grid Potential Rise, GPR (V) 0.56 16790.579

Table 13: Summary of Inputs Top soil layer resistivity (Ohm.m) 100 Depth top soil layer (m) 3 Bottom soil layer resistivity (Ohm.m) 50 Excitation current (A) 30000 Faulted segment no. 1 Final no. of segments 95 Conductor radius (m) 0.005937 Conductivity of buried conductor (S/m) 57E+6 Frequency (Hz) 50 Calculation delta 0.001

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Figure 2: Surface potentials (V) - 3D view

Figure 3: Surface potentials - Colour map

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Figure 4: Surface potentials (V) - X-Y view

Figure 5: Surface potentials - Colour map

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Figure 6: Touch potentials (V) - 3D view

Figure 7: Touch potentials - Colour map

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Figure 8: Touch potentials (V) - X-Y view

Figure 9: Touch potentials - Colour map

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Figure 10: Step potentials (V) - 3D view

Figure 11: Step potentials - Colour map

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Figure 12: Step potentials (V) - X-Y view

Figure 13: Step potentials - Colour map

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