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ATTENUATION CALCULATIONS BASED ON PEABODY EQUATIONS

INPUT DATA IN YELLOW CELLS ONLY
L Length of Pipeline 50000
f Pipe diameter 0.203
Es Assumed potential shift at power source 1.2
Coating quality: 1-Superb, 2-Excellent, 3- Very Good, 4, Good, -5-Poor 1
Max. Drain Point Potential (assuming .6V nat.Pot.) 1.8
Coating Conductance 1E-05
Coating Resistance 100000
r Unit resistance along circuit per unit length (1000 meters) 0.033
d Unit Conductance to earth Simens/unit length 0.006
a Attenuation constant=sqrt(c10*c11) 0.015
RG Characteristic Resistance (sqrt(c10/c11)) 2.280
RSO Resistance looking into open ended line 3.671
Units of pipe length 50
E Potential at distance x 0.941
ay l
Neg.Volts

Voltage Attenuation Profile

1.2
0.8
0.4
0 -0.850V min.
0 5.555555 11.11111 16.66666 22.22222 27.77777 33.33333 38.88888 44.44444 50
5555555 1111111 6666666 2222222 7777777 3333333 8888888 4444444
5 1 7 2 8 3 9 4
Distance in Km

7.992126
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2
3
4
5

1E-05

2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
32
34
36
8
0.033136
 mØ h
mA/m² p
m A/m² Ø
m W cm µA/m2
V A/m² µA/ft2
W mA/ ft2
V = W/m2
S/msq D W/ft2
Ohms/msq P mW/m2
Ohms F mW/ft2
S/1000m a f
d r
ohms
ohms
Km
V

888 44.44444 50
888 4444444
4
 1E-05 Superb
2E-05 Excellent
4E-05 V-Good
0.0001 Good
0.0002 Poor

0.25983936 79.2
0.09448704 28.8
0.04986816 15.2
0.03313608 10.1
0.0233921 7.13
0.01909426 5.82
0.01735543 5.29
0.01512449 4.61
0.01341847 4.09
0.01207334 3.68
0.01095787 3.34
0.01003925 3.06
0.00925186 2.82
0.0085957 2.62
0.00800515 2.44
0.00748022 2.28
0.00705372 2.15
0.00666002 2.03
 GRAPH DATA
0 1.200 0.85
6 1.144 0.85
11 1.095 0.85
17 1.053 0.85
22 1.018 0.85
28 0.990 0.85
33 0.968 0.85
39 0.953 0.85
44 0.944 0.85
50 0.941 0.85

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