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32.UG Cable

The document discusses underground cables, highlighting their advantages, construction, and comparison with overhead cables. It covers concepts such as electrostatic stress, grading of cables, dielectric power loss, and sheath loss, along with factors affecting these losses. Additionally, it addresses the importance of the most economic radius and the factor of safety in cable design.

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32.UG Cable

The document discusses underground cables, highlighting their advantages, construction, and comparison with overhead cables. It covers concepts such as electrostatic stress, grading of cables, dielectric power loss, and sheath loss, along with factors affecting these losses. Additionally, it addresses the importance of the most economic radius and the factor of safety in cable design.

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Recap

Underground Cables
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Advantages

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• Construction of UG Cable
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UG Cable Vs OH Cable
Proximity Effect

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Insulation Resistance
Electrostatic Stress
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The variation of Electric Field Vs Distance is called as Electrostatic Stress

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Distribution.

MD
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Electrostatic Stress

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D O
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Most Economic Radius
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Whenever the electric field on surface of conductor is minimum the required

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dielectric strength of material is minimum and hence cost of insulation is

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minimized so the radius of core is called as Most Economic Radius.

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E X
Grading of Cables
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The dielectric strength is generally more than maximum electric field in the

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insulation.

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• If electric field is non-uniform then capability of dielectric is wasted.
When we use multiple dielectrics to reduce non-uniformity of Electric Field then

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•

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it is called as Grading of Cables.

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Factor of Safety
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Factor of Safety is defined as ratio of dielectric strength of material to the

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maximum electric field.

MD
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Same Working Stress

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D O
A M
E X
Single Core Cable

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D O
A M
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Three Core Cable

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D O
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E X
Methods of Computing

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Methods of Computing

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Methods of Computing

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Dielectric Power Loss
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If a dielectric is placed in the presence of alternating electric field then the

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electric dipoles reverse their orientation in every half cycle.

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The energy lost in the process of reversing the dipoles is called as Dielectric

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Power Loss.

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The other reason for dielectric loss is the flow of leakage current due to finite
resistance of dielectric.
Dielectric Power Loss

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D O
A M
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Sheath Loss
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Due to flux produced by core there is an emf induced in the sheath which is

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made of metal and that causes eddy currents to flow and hence cause sheath

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loss.

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Effect on various losses

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Parameters Ohmic Loss Dielectric Loss Sheath Loss

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Current Increases

Frequency Increases

Length Increases

HVDC

A M
E X
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D O
A M
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If frequency increases the proximity effect increases.

S T
D O
A M
E X
Core to Core Capacitance is more than Core to
Sheath Capacitance.

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The dielectric with smallest permittivity is placed

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nearest to conductor.

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