Power System Analysis

Spring-2022
Grading
CLO1 CLO2 CLO3 Total

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Lab Report: 7

Experiment No: 07 Date of Submission:

April-19-2022

Experiment Title:
Calculation of line reactance per phase for 3-phase double circuit line
Students’ Name: Shaheer Ahmed Qureshi

Batch: Teacher:
BSEE 2019-23 Dr. Arif Gilgiti
Semester Lab Engineer:
6th Mr. Bilal Nadeem

Department of Electrical Engineering

 415L-Power System Analysis
Lab Report 7
Calculation of line reactance per phase for 3-phase double circuit line
Shaheer Ahmed Qureshi
Department of Electrical Engineering
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Islamabad, Pakistan
02-3-1-067-2019
bsee1932@pieas.edu.pk

Abstract–This report shows that to compute power The per-phase GMD is then calculated using the
losses, you must first determine inductance and following formula:
capacitance. The values of series inductance and
parallel capacitance in a transmission line are
determined by the spacing between conductors and the
radii of conductors. The reactance values can be used Then GMR of each phase group is calculated
to design a transmission system with the proper
spacing between conductors to minimize power losses
in the line.

1. INTRODUCTION
Objectives: Where 𝐷𝑠𝑏 is the geometric mean radius of the bundled
conductors. The equivalent GMR is given by:
 To be able to find the inductance and
inductive reactance of a 3-phase double
circuit transmission line. The inductance per phase in millimeter per kilometer
Theory: is given by:
A three-phase double-circuit line is made up of two
identical three-phase circuits. The circuits are And the capacitance to neutral in uF per kilometer is:
connected in series with a1 a2, b1 b2, and c1 c2. Due
to various geometrical differences between
conductors, the voltage drop caused by line inductance The expression for GMD is the same as was found for
will be unbalanced. In order to achieve balance, each inductance calculation. The GMDc of each phase
phase conductor must be transposed within its group group is similar to GMRL:
and with regard to the parallel three-phase line.
Consider a three-phase double-circuit line with
relative phase positions a1b1c1 c2b2a2, as shown in
Figure 1.

Therefore, GMR for per-phase capacitance to neutral

is:

Figure 1. Transposed double circuit system

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 2. TASKS 4. DISCUSSION
Write a MATLAB code to determine inductive
This experiment revealed the effect of bundling on
reactance per phase for 300km three-phase, double-
the transmission line's inductance and capacitance.
circuit line with the horizontal conductor
When a 3-phase transposed double circuit line is used,
configuration as shown in Figure 2. The phase
the phase groups are bundled. As a result of this
conductors are ACSR Drake.
bundling, the GMR rises. The GMR of phase group a-
a' is greater than the GMR of an or a' due to the bundle
spacing between them. The increase in GMR causes
the transmission line's inductance to decrease and
capacitance to climb. Reduced inductance reduces
power losses, but increased capacitance pulls more
Figure 2. Three phase double circuit system
and higher charging current, cancelling the trailing
component of current in line and lowering net line
3. CODE AND RESULTS current. This not only reduces power losses, but it also
improves the power factor of the system. Another
Code:
issue we discovered is that the geometric mean radius
Ds=0.0368; is utilised in the formula for single conductor
a=25; inductance, but the actual radius is used in the formula
b=100;
c=50; for capacitance. This is due to the fact that GMR is the
d=25; conductor's imaginary radius, which includes exterior
e=25; flux connections but not interior flux linkages. In
f=100; general, the influence of surrounding conductors on a
g=50; single conductor in a transmission system is explored,
h=25; hence the inductance equation was modified to only
k=50;
incorporate exterior flux linkages, whereas the
l=125;
m=25; capacitance equation did not require this.
n=50;
DAB=sqrt(sqrt(a*b*c*d)); 5. CONCLUSION
DBC=sqrt(sqrt(e*f*g*h)); The objectives of this lab were met successfully. n
DAC=sqrt(sqrt(k*l*m*n)); this lab, we learned how to find the inductance and
GMD=(DAB*DBC*DAC)^(0.33333) capacitance of double circuit lines using GMD and
aa=75; GMR calculations. We also taught how to solve
DSA=sqrt(Ds*aa); problems using a datasheet. In this experiment, we
GMR=(DSA*DSA*DSA)^(0.33333)
largely explored the advantages of bundling
L=0.2*log(GMD/GMR)*300
Xl=2*3.142*50*L conductors over unbundled conductors.
disp(’The inductance is given as:’);
6. REFERENCES
disp(L); [1] H. Saadat , Power System Analysis ,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1999, pp. 62-64.
disp(’The impedence reactance is given as:’);
[2] EE-415 Power System Analysis Laboratory
disp(Xl); Manual, Dr. Muhammad Arif, Pieas, 2018.
[online].