Earthing Calculation for NGR PANEL

Sr. No. Description Data

1 Maximum Fault Current : 0.1
2 Duration of Fault current 30
3 Kind of Earthing Mesh
4 Material Selection Copper
5 Type of Joints Bolted
6 1 Circular Mill 0.0005067
7 Consideration
Bolted Joints, 30 Sec Fault Current, Copper Flats
8 Hence Circular Mills/amps Selected 64
9 Total Area 0.03242880
10 For 0.1ka, Cross Sectional Area of Conductor. 3.24288
11 50 % Corrosion Margin 1.5
12 Final Area 4.86
13 Selecting 6 mm Thickness 6
14 Width of Strip 0.811
15 Area of Cross-sectional should not be less than Formulae1 9.916
16 Area of Cross-section considered 300
17 Margin On selection ( min. 10 % required) 30.26
Hence, 300 (50 x 6 mm, copper Flats )Sq.mm. is Safe
 Units
KA
Seconds
Mat

mm2

As per chart
mm2
mm2

mm2
mm
mm
mm2
Factor
mm2
 Time-
Duration of Minimum Size of conductor in Circular mills/ Amps
Fault Weld Joints Bolted Joints
Current Copper Steel Aluminium Copper Steel

30 secs 50 120 91 64 143

3.0 secs 16 38 29 21 46

1.0 secs 9.5 22 17 12 27

0.5 secs 6.5 16 12 8.5 19

Formulae1
A(mm2) Ik x SQRT( (Tc x @t X Pr x 10,000)/Tcap)/(Loge(1+(Tm-Ta)/(Ko+Ta))
As per Equation - 33 IEEE80 - 1986 std.

Earthing Calculation for NGR PANEL

Symbol Description Data
Tc Fault Duration in sec 30
Ik Fault Current in KA 0.1
Ta Ambient Temp 45
Tr Reference Temp 20
Tm Max. Allowable Temp 325
@T Thermal Resis. Contact @Tr 0.0032
Pr Resistance of the Grid Cond at Tr 20.1
Tcap Thermal capacity Factor 3.931
Factor Ko 292.4

A Area of Cross-Section 9.0143

Net Area Now Allowing 10 % corrosion Margin 9.9157
cular mills/ Amps
Bolted Joints
Aluminium

123

39

23

16

+(Tm-Ta)/(Ko+Ta))

PANEL
Units
secs
ka 100
Deg C
Deg C
Deg C

microohm/cm3
J/cm3/Deg C

mm2
mm2