Experiment-1

AIM - To determine the L and C parameters of single phase transmission line.

SOFTWARE REQUIRED: MATLAB 7.6
THEORY
Transmission line has four parameters namely resistance, inductance, capacitance and
conductance. The inductance and capacitance are due to the effect of magnetic and electric
fields around the conductor. The resistance of the conductor is best determined from the
manufactures data, the inductances and capacitances can be evaluated using the formula.

FORMULAS:
Inductance:
The general formula:
L = 0.2 ln (Dm / Ds) mH / KM
Where,
Dm = geometric mean distance (GMD)
Ds = geometric mean radius (GMR)
Single phase 2 wire system
GMD = D
GMR = re-1/4 = r' = 0.7788 r
Where, r = radius of conductor
Three phase – symmetrical spacing
GMD = D
GMR = re-1/4 = r'
Where, r = radius of conductor & GMR = re-1/4 = r' = 0.7788 r
Capacitance:
A general formula for evaluating capacitance per phase in micro farad per km of a transmission
line is given by
C = 0.0556/ ln (Deq / r) μF/km
Where, GMD is the “Geometric mean distance” which is same as that defined for inductance
under various cases.

PROGRAM:
D=input('enter the distance between conductors in cm: ');

d=input('enter the value of d: '); r=d/2;

Ds=0.7788*r;

Y=log(D/Ds);

inductance=0.2*Y;

capacitance=0.0556/(log(D/r));

fprintf('\n The inductance per phase per km is %f mH/ph/km \n',inductance);

fprintf('\n The capacitance per phase per km is %f mf/ph/km \n',capacitance);