Facta Univ. Ser.: Elec. Energ., vol. 22, No. 2, August 2009, pp. 209-215

An External Body in Protected Area

Zlata Ž. Cvetković, Bojana R. Petković, and Mirjana T. Perić

Abstract: In practice, often there is a need for modelling systems for cancelling the Earth electrostatic field. For this purpose, a linear circular loop can be used. The realized protection is as better as the used ring is thicker. In practical applications, a system of coaxial linear loops is used instead of one thick ring. In order to find the influence of protected object shape and volume to the electrostatic protection efficiency, a protected object is modelled as a half spherical electrode, placed with its flat side on the ground. According to the theoretical analysis, a general numerical program has been developed and numerical results are shown graphically.

Keywords: Electrostatic protection, toroidal primary cell, half sphere protected object.

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