Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures

Soil resistivity is a crucial parameter to be taken into consideration in designing any electrical grounding system, as the understanding towards its changes over time and soil properties is crucial to ensure transients and fault currents to be able to be dispersed to the earth in shortest time and...

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Main Authors: Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatinhamamah, Lai, Wai Luen, Jasni, Jasronita, Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68655/
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author Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatinhamamah
Lai, Wai Luen
Jasni, Jasronita
Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin
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Lai, Wai Luen
Jasni, Jasronita
Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin
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description Soil resistivity is a crucial parameter to be taken into consideration in designing any electrical grounding system, as the understanding towards its changes over time and soil properties is crucial to ensure transients and fault currents to be able to be dispersed to the earth in shortest time and shortest path possible. National and international standards stated that there is necessity to measure soil resistivity of a site before any grounding system installation could be carried out at that site. Steps and tests needed to be done in finding a suitable site for grounding system installations with Natural Enhancement Material Mixtures were discussed in this work. Three sites were taken into consideration, which only one to be selected, based on soil resistivity assessments that were carried out. The effectiveness of the Natural Enhancement Material Mixtures grounding systems installed at the selected site were also monitored for the duration of one year, by measuring the soil resistivity of the site once in three months. Note that all the sites are located in Universiti of Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. It is shown that there is general relationship between the soil resistivity values and climate change in Malaysia throughout a year of measurement duration. Also, by installing grounding systems with Natural Enhancement Material Mixtures, the soil resistivity values were slightly reduced over a period of one year.
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spelling upm-686552019-06-10T02:45:13Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68655/ Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatinhamamah Lai, Wai Luen Jasni, Jasronita Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin Soil resistivity is a crucial parameter to be taken into consideration in designing any electrical grounding system, as the understanding towards its changes over time and soil properties is crucial to ensure transients and fault currents to be able to be dispersed to the earth in shortest time and shortest path possible. National and international standards stated that there is necessity to measure soil resistivity of a site before any grounding system installation could be carried out at that site. Steps and tests needed to be done in finding a suitable site for grounding system installations with Natural Enhancement Material Mixtures were discussed in this work. Three sites were taken into consideration, which only one to be selected, based on soil resistivity assessments that were carried out. The effectiveness of the Natural Enhancement Material Mixtures grounding systems installed at the selected site were also monitored for the duration of one year, by measuring the soil resistivity of the site once in three months. Note that all the sites are located in Universiti of Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. It is shown that there is general relationship between the soil resistivity values and climate change in Malaysia throughout a year of measurement duration. Also, by installing grounding systems with Natural Enhancement Material Mixtures, the soil resistivity values were slightly reduced over a period of one year. IEEE 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/68655/1/Variations%20of%20soil%20resistivity%20values%20due%20to%20grounding%20system%20installations%20with%20natural%20enhancement%20material%20mixtures.pdf Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatinhamamah and Lai, Wai Luen and Jasni, Jasronita and Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin (2018) Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures. In: 34th International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP 2018), 2-7 Sept. 2018, Rzeszow, Poland. . 10.1109/ICLP.2018.8503373
spellingShingle Wan Ahmad, Wan Fatinhamamah
Lai, Wai Luen
Jasni, Jasronita
Ab Kadir, Mohd Zainal Abidin
Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures
title Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures
title_full Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures
title_fullStr Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures
title_full_unstemmed Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures
title_short Variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures
title_sort variations of soil resistivity values due to grounding system installations with natural enhancement material mixtures
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