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INTRODUCTION

POWERLPC is designed to compute the overhead transmission line electrical

parameters from the design data. The program input data is through an ASCII file.
Section-2 gives technical description of the overhead transmission line. How to
compute line parameters using MiP-PSCT is explained in Section-3. Section 4 gives
the format of the input file. In Section-5, the data file preparation for typical line
parameter calculation studies are discussed along with the results. When POWERLPC
is executed from integrated environment, the input data is automatically generated
from the centralized database.

Three-phase transmission lines are used to transfer power from generation points to
load points. The voltage levels are selected to be as high as possible to minimize the
conductor I2R losses. However, voltage level is decided by economic considerations
and the amount of power transfer. This technical reference gives the mathematical
formulation for the computation of the overhead transmission line parameters.
Overhead transmission line is represented by an equivalent circuit, with series
impedance consisting of line resistance and line inductance and shunt susceptance
corresponding to line charging current.