Capacitance of 3-phase lines

Capacitance of 3-phase lines

Capacitance of 3-phase lines
Effect of Bundling
Capacitance of 3-phase Double-circuit lines
Capacitance of 3-phase Double-circuit Lines
 Effects of Earth on Capacitance
 Earth affects the capacitance of an overhead line, as its presence alters the electrical field of the line.
The earth level is an equipotential surface, therefore the flux lines are forced to cut the surface of the
earth orthogonally. The effect of the presence of earth can be accounted for by the method of image
charges.
 Consider a circuit, consisting of a single overhead conductor with a charge +q C/m of
height h m above ground and imagine a fictitious conductor of charge –q C/m placed
with a depth h m below the ground surface as shown in Fig.
 This configuration, without the presence of the earth surface, will produce the same
field distribution, which is produced by single charge, and the earth surface. Thus, for
the purpose of calculation of capacitance, the earth may be replaced by an image
charged conductor below the surface of the earth by a distance same as the height of
the actual conductor above the earth. Such a conductor has a charge, equal in
Fig. One conductor line and its
magnitude but opposite in sign to that of the original conductor and is known as image
image
conductor.

 Presence of earth was ignored while calculating the capacitance of transmission line.
The effect of earth on capacitance can be conveniently taken into account by the
method of images.