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EARTHELECTRO
Modernzation Safety Earthing
Solution
To ensure safety of the property and life from hazards of electric shock and electric fires
To ensure that system voltages on healthy lines remain within reasonable limits under fault conditions
generating ground faults thereby preventing insulation break downs.
Even under conditions of a HV line breaking and falling on a LV system, an efficiently grounded LV
system will hold the system neutral close to the ground potential thus limiting the over-voltage.
To provide a low impedance path to facilitates the satisfactory operation of protective devices under
fault conditions.
To minimize arching burn downs as in an earthed system arching fault would build up transient, in
ground path thereby eliminating any high frequency voltage oscillations following each arc initiation or
re-strike, providing an easy means of detecting and tripping against phase to earth arching fault
breakdowns.
Ground Improving Materials
To provide an equipotential platform on which electronic equipments can operate.
To provide an alternative path for induced current and minimize the electrical noise in cables.
BFC, (back fill compound) is a specially developed compound, which is capable of absorbing and retaining
the moisture for a long time, it reduces the soil resistivity, it helps in faster dissipation of fault current, least
fluctuation of Ohmic value and it eliminates the use of Salt, Charcoal etc. around the Earthing Electrode. It
has low solubility, hence is not easily washed away, and has a low resistivity (approximately 5-10 Ohm-
meters in a saturated solution).
Advantages of BFC
Salient Features
Maintenance Free:
No need to add water in regular intervals as in conventional systems. However the
requirement of plenty of water is there prior to installation of the pipe earthing electrode after
Earthelectro Earthing Electrodes
Features Applications
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