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Description / Abstract:
Overview
This guide was developed to identify grounding practices that
have generally been accepted by the electric utility industry as
contributing to effective grounding systems for personnel safety
and equipment protection in generating stations.
It provides a guide for the design of generating station
grounding systems and for grounding practices applied to generating
station indoor and outdoor structures and equipment, including the
interconnection of the station and substation grounding systems.
Guidance for the grounding of control and instrumentation equipment
in generating stations can be found in IEEE Std 1050-1989.
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Generating station grounding designs are complicated by
considerations such as physically large outdoor areas with multiple
buildings and associated transfer voltages, grounding effects of
buried infrastructure, rotating electrical apparatus, large indoor
areas, auxiliary systems with multiple voltage levels, and the need
for increasingly ÒcleanÓ signal ground sources for control systems.
This guide has been developed in recognition that the complexities
of generating stations are such that the generally accepted
techniques and programs for the design of electrical substation
grounding systems for safety may not address all of the issues.
While these complexities may be suitably analyzed with the
computerized methods that are available, this guide presents a
manual calculation method based on the principles presented in IEEE
Std 80-1986.
It is not intended that this document provide grounding test
methods or quantitative analysis of the effects of lightning
surges. This document should not be interpreted as requiring any
speciÞc design for a particular installation; instead, it is a
guide to the process and special techniques that the designer
should recognize and consider. The necessary supporting detail is
to be found in other relevant standards and documents; these are
referenced in the text where appropriate.
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