Study on Structural Parameters and Analysis Method of Soil Successive Impulse Discharge Channel

• Published in: Energies (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 4; p. 877
• Main Authors: Luo, Donghui, Cao, Yongxing, Zhang, Yu, Xie, Shijun, Zhang, Chenmeng, Cao, Shuping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.02.2021
• Subjects: Accuracy; discharge channel; Electric field strength; Electrodes; gray information; grounding; Information management; Lightning; Methods; Model accuracy; Morphology; Residual resistivity; Soil analysis; Soil conditions; Soils; successive impulse; transient analysis model; X-ray
• ISSN: 1996-1073; 1996-1073
• DOI: 10.3390/en14040877

The transient analysis model of grounding systems is an important tool to analyze the lightning characteristics of grounding devices. When lightning enters the soil through the grounding device, there is a centralized discharge channel. The spatial structure of the discharge channel in the soil has a great effect on the accuracy of the transient analysis model of the soil impulse discharge. In this paper, based on the gray information analysis method, the volume of successive impulse discharge channels in the ground under various currents and soil conditions is calculated, and the changing law with time interval is analyzed. According to the experimental results, an analysis method of the model considering the discharge channel structure is proposed, and an example is analyzed. The results show that the time interval has an effect on the volume of the discharge channel. In a certain range, the volume of the channel increases with the time interval of successive impulse discharges. Taking the critical breakdown electric field strength as the judgment condition and the residual resistivity as the variable, the development process of the discharge channel can be simulated. The calculated results of the model are close to the experimental results.