Efficient evaluation of the earth return mutual impedance of overhead conductors over a horizontally multilayered soil

• Jae-bok Lee ^[1] ; Jun Zou ^[2] ; Benliang Li ^[3] ; Munno Ju ^[1]
  1. [1] Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute

     Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute

     Corea del Sur

     
  2. [2] Tsinghua University

     Tsinghua University

     China

     
  3. [3] State Power Economic Research Institute

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• Localización: Compel: International journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, ISSN 0332-1649, Vol. 33, Nº 4 (Special Issue: SCEE 2012), 2014, págs. 1379-1395
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Purpose – The per-unit-length earth return mutual impedance of the overhead conductors plays an important role for analyzing electromagnetic transients or couplings of multi-conductor systems. It is impossible to have a closed-form expression to evaluate this kind of impedance. The purpose of this paper is to propose an efficient numerical approach to evaluate the earth return mutual impedance of the overhead conductors above horizontally multi-layered soils.

    Design/methodology/approach – The expression of the earth return mutual impedance, which contains a complex highly oscillatory semi-infinite integral, is divided into two parts intentionally, i.e. the definite and the tail integral, respectively. The definite integral is calculated using the proposed moment functions after fitting the integrand into the piecewise cubic spline functions, and the tail integral is replaced by exponential integrals with newly developed asymptotic integrands.

    Findings – The numerical examples show the proposed approach has a satisfactory accuracy for different parameter combinations. Compared to the direct quadrature approach, the computational time of the proposed approach is very competitive, especially, for the large horizontal distance and the low height of the conductors.

    Originality/value – The advantage of the proposed approach is that the calculation of the highly oscillatory integral is completely avoided due to the fact that the moment function can be evaluated analytically. The contribution of the tail integral is well included by means of the exponential integral, though in an asymptotic way. The proposed approach is completely general, and can be applied to calculate the earth return mutual impedance of overhead conductors above a soil structure with an arbitrary number of horizontal layers.