Design and analysis of grounding systems for wind turbines using Finite element method

This paper proposes different designs of grounding systems for wind turbines. For each grounding system the maximum Electric field distribution is obtained. This paper introduces a new grounding system which decreases the electric field distribution in the grounding foundation used for wind turbines...

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Main Authors: Manikandan, P, Rajamani, M P E, Subburaj, P, Venkatkumar, D
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Copper
electric field
Electric fields
finite element method
Finite element methods
Grounding
grounding analysis
lightning strike
MATLAB
Wind turbines
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Summary:This paper proposes different designs of grounding systems for wind turbines. For each grounding system the maximum Electric field distribution is obtained. This paper introduces a new grounding system which decreases the electric field distribution in the grounding foundation used for wind turbines during the lightning strike. A performance comparison among proposed scheme is addressed. A detailed design procedure of the proposed grounding systems is also presented. To verify the analysis of proposed method, Simulation results have been presented in MATLAB and ANSYS using Finite element method.
DOI:10.1109/ICETECT.2011.5760107