Design - Criteria - Earthing - 3BYN463033-SEA (REV-A)
Design - Criteria - Earthing - 3BYN463033-SEA (REV-A)
Approved
V. Thulasiram Project
LAFARGE SURMA CEMENT PLANT
Checked
V.S. Bhadoria 17 km Long Belt Conveyor+ Crushing Shop
CONTENT
1. General 3
2.1 Function 3
1. General
The purpose of this document is to provide project specific basic design criteria for
the preparation of detailed engineering documents and drawings.
1.1 Definitions and Abbreviations
2.1 Function
Earthing system of the Crusher & LBC is a safety system supporting the main power
distribution system and providing a low resistance path to earth for the fault current
to keep the operating men and equipment safe and not allowing any current path
through their bodies in case of a faulty condition.
2.2 Applicable standards and reference
SCOPE
This covers the design of safety earthing system for the Electrical system for
Crushing plant and LBC substation ( SS03 ) at Meghalaya India to the head
end of the LBC at Bangladesh of Surma Cement Plant.
METHODOLOGY
c. Derive the length and width of the grounding area of the control room.
Input Data
Ambient temperature : 36 oC
Design Ambient : 50 oC
Fault level : 50 kA for 1 sec as per Lafarge specifications
Corrosion allowance : 2.0 mm reduction in thickness / diameter
(Min 25 Sqmm area required without
corrosion protection against 16 Sqmm with
corrosion protection)
Material of Conductor: Cu conductor in all the places and GI strip
along LBS.
A = ( If t ) / K
Where,
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K= [ {Q ( B+20) / P
c 20 } ln { 1+ [(Qf – Qi ) / (B+ Qi )] }]
Where,
Considering the corrosion allowance on dia. (2 mm), the dia. of the conductor will be
19.6 mm.
Alternatively if required
For achieving area of 244.3 sqmm we need a Cu Strip of standard size 35x8 Sqmm
(=280 sqmm)
Earth grid resistance is given by the formula as per IEEE 80 - 1986 , Eq.A84, Page 172
Where,
The resistance with above data works out to Rg = 1.32-( from eq-1) Ohms. In
addition to above 10 Nos of earth electrodes are provided.
Re =3.39 Ohms(2)
Now the combined resistance (Parallel Paths) 1 and 2 works out 0.95 Ohms
which is very close to required 1 ohm. Hence for safer calculations we will add 2
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more pits and hence the no of pits will be 12, then the resistance comes out to be
Re=2.825 ohms.
With strip electrode by substituting the values in Eq-3 we get Re = 2.65 ohms.
The internal earth grid formed by the earthing conductor along the cable trays and
trench shall be interconnected to external earthing grid resulting in still lower
resistance path for earth fault and also substantially brings down effective resistance
to much below 1 Ohm.
Please refer the detailed sketch enclosed for the substation,DG building and utility
Building for above calculations.
Considering the same short circuit level as that of Main earh grid Bare Copper
conductor of 20mm Dia rod or 35 x 8 Flat strips shall be used.
Two Numbers of separate earth pits will be made for connection of Copper grid
with two runs of 35 x 8 mm strip separately brought out above the ground .
We now shall estimate the Grid resistance for the other areas:(Ref: sketch-2)
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Now From the building dimensions for Primary crusher shop ,secondary crusher
shop, and Transfer tower TT3 and TT2 , the length of conductor shall be
[2*{(15.5 +20.5 +3)+(12+8+3)+(12+8+3)+(20+10+3)}]= 236 mtr = 250 mtr (approx)
(+3 mtr ) is addition in the perimeter as conductors are considered 3 mtr away from
the building)
We get
Rg= 2.0 Ohms
Now 2 runs of Earth conductors along cable trench and cable trays from
Substation building to TT2.
Rg = 8.2 Ohms
The effective resist. of grid (On Indian side before Conveyor 105BC01)is 1.0 Ohms
Now along the Conveyor extending from TT2 (Indian side) to TT1(Bangladesh side).
A run of 50 x 6 Sqmmm GI strip(Alternatively 2 Runs of 25 x 6 Sqmm) is considered
as per contract specifications.
Here now we will consider the 100 Ohm meter(P) as soil resistivity up to stretch of 5
km from TT2( 2Km before river river bed area on the Indian side) The remaining
11.95 Km which forms Part of soft soil and river bed area Up to TT1 on Bangladesh
side, the resistivity considered is 20 Ohm meter
The stretch of Conveyor on Indian side is 7.185 Km( From DWG SUR 105 E10 &
E15)
The stretch of conveyor on Bangladesh side is 9.623 Km(From DWG SUR 105
E50,E17 & E18)
Along the conveyor line We shall consider Cu Rod( 20mm Dia) driven earth
Electrodes.
The depth of electrode shall be 1500mm and as per requirement at regular
interval of 150 mtr .
Now for 33 pits( 5 Km stretch we will consider 100 Ohm meter as soil
Resistivity is considered )
Depth=150cm
Diametre=2 cm
Re=1.83 Ohms
Now combined resistance of Conveyor belt line shall be parallel effective resistance
of 2.84 Ohms,0.36 Ohms,1.83 Ohms and 0.15 Ohms.
R= 0.09 Ohms
This indicates that the resistance of the earth grid designed above has already achieved
a resistance of less than 1(one) ohm, as required by the project specification with 100
ohm metre soil resistivity.and 20 Ohm meter.
Summary of Calculations and proposed Method for Crusher plant and Long
Belt Conveyor(105 BC01)
1. With existing buried earth grid a separate grid along cable routes in each building
for equipment earthing will be provided by using a copper conductor of atleast
95sqmm cross section or equally sized copper flat.
2. The grid above earth shall be interconnected with Main(Underground) in at least
two points.
3. At least two earth junction boxes with link shall be provided for each earth grid for
earth resistance measurement.
4. Motors shall be suitably earthed with required cross section of conductor at at
least two distinct points preferably with 95 Sqmm of 150 Kw and above and with
50 Sqmm and 16 Sqmm Cu conductor up to 150 Kw
5. Separate cables shall be used for earthing of sensitive equipment as and when
necessary. A common earth grid for electronic earth for information systems or
sensitive equipment mentioned above will be formed.
6. Adequate jumpers and links shall be provided between different earth grids for
interconnection.
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7. Vegetal (Soft soil) soil layer of 20cm above and under the buried conductor shall
be provided.
8. For interconnection of two conductors under the ground to form a continuous
conductor, lap welding shall be done in case of MS or GI conductors and lap
jointing with bolts / nuts shall be done for copper conductors. Brazing shall be
carried out for joining copper to copper series conection. For all the conductors the
connection with equipment shall be done to suit the site condition.
9. The Main cable tray in all sections shall carry 95 Sqm Cu conductor all along its
run and secondary trays shall be taped through the 50 Sqmm or 16 Sqmm based
on short circuit resistance.
10. As far as structures and conveyors are concerned they shall be earthed through
tapings from respective main grids passing through the areas via cable trench
/Tray.
11. The Main earth generally shown in sketch 1 and sketch 2 shall be for short circuit
level for 50 KA for 1 sec. All other sections shall be as per shortckt levels at
respective load centers. Gain generally adhering to minimum cross sections as per
Lafarge specifications of 95 Sqmm,50 Sqmm and 16 Sqmm as required.
CONCLUSION
From the above, it can be concluded that the earth grid designed for the Substation
room, DG room, Utility rooms, conveyor galleries, etc.are in order. The value of
earth grid resistance is less than 1 ohm..
Sketch-1 (sheet2)
Sketch2
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