• International Journal of Safety
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2009

This paper describes analysis of risk voltage for grounding electrode where earth leakage current is injected. To assess risk voltage of grounding electrode, the grounding simulator and CDEGS program were used to obtain measured data and theoretical results of this study. The grounding simulator was composed of a hemispherical water tank, AC power supply, a movable potentiometer, and test grounding electrodes. The shapes of grounding electrode model was ground rod. The potential rise was measured by grounding simulator, and the touch and step voltages were computed by CDEGS program. As a consequence, the potential rise of ground rod abruptly decreases with increasing the distance from the grounding electrode to the point to be tested. The touch voltage above the ground rod was low, but the step voltage was high. The measured results were compared with the computer calculated data and were known in good agreement.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2011

Grounding electrodes with higher burial depths are evaluated to have better performance, due to the domestic practice that puts the grounding resistance as the standard of performance evaluation, while grounding resistance decreases as the burial depth increases. However, The dangerous voltage is necessary for the analysis. Because the performance evaluation of grounding electrodes should include not only grounding resistance but also the dangerous voltage(mesh voltage and step voltage). So in this paper, The dangerous voltages of mesh grounding and rod grounding were analyzed for using computer simulation and miniature grounding model.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.218-221
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• 2005

Grounding electrodes as discharge paths to the earth are normally used to ensure the safety of human body and facilities from the over-voltages in distribution power system, and each grounding mode has a prescribed ground resistance value respectively which is applied by the utilities. As the various electrodes for distribution power system are recently developing to improve the performance of them and resolve the problem of space restriction, it is necessary to measure and investigate the safety of human body of developed electrodes. Therefore, in this paper, we provide briefly a technical comparison of two standards, i.e. IEEE Std 80 and the IEC 479-1, and describe the configuration of safety measurement system which can measure the step voltage and the touch voltage of grounding electrodes based on IEEE Std 80.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.214-217
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• 2005

To improve the safety of facilities and human beings when the ground fault occurs, public power utility prescribes the reasonable ground resistances, measures and controls the ground resistance of all the ground electrodes biennially. Concerning the safety of human, there are two safety criteria widely accepted, i.e. the IEEE Std 80-2000 and the IEC 479-1:1994. The IEEE Std 80-2000 is based on a simplified electric shock model usually translated into permissible touch and step voltages. The IEC 479-1:1994 is less specific than IEEE Std 80-2000 for analysis purpose. The IEC 479-1:1994 provides values of permissible body current against electric shock duration. This paper provides a technical study of these two standards to analyze the safety of human beings of ground electrodes developed recently for distribution power system.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 제39회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1360-1361
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• 2008

This paper presents the surface potential rise distribution near grounding electrodes produced by ground fault currents. The small-scale model with the foundation pedestal in hemispherical tank was used to simulate the ground fault condition of the electrical installations for street lamps. When entering the fault current through the test ground electrode, surface potential rise, potential gradient, touch and step voltages for different grounding electrode shapes were measured, and the results obtained were discussed.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2008

본 논문에는 22.9 kV-Y 배전계통의 1선 지락고장이 인체의 안전 및 저압설비의 보호에 대한 실험적 결과를 기술하였다. 새로이 제정된 KS C IEC 60364 규격군에 따른 고압 충전도체가 대지에 접촉되는 지락고장에 의한 위험전압과 저압기기의 스트레스전압을 평가하기 위해서 22.9[kV] 중성점 다중접지계통에 대한 실증실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과로부터 KS C IEC 60364 규격군을 기존의 국내배전계통에 적용할 때 부합되지 않는 중대한 문제점을 도출하였으며, 22.9 kV-Y 다중접지와 수용가설비접지를 공용하는 공통접지계통에서 발생하는 지락고장에 의한 일시적 과전압에 대한 효과적인 보호대책을 제시하였다. 결국 22.9 kV-Y계통과 저압설비를 공통접지로 하는 경우 인체와 저압설비의 안전을 위한 효과적인 보호대책의 구현에는 등전위본딩이 중요한 필수적 요건임이 밝혀졌다.