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Electrical Safety of Resonant Grounding

Michele TartagliaMassimo MitoloGaetano Zizzo

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Service (systems architecture)Network reconfigurationbusiness.industryComputer scienceGround020209 energyElectrical engineering02 engineering and technologySettore ING-IND/33 - Sistemi Elettrici Per L'EnergiaHardware_GENERALGround fault0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringResonant GroundPower qualityPetersen Coil020201 artificial intelligence & image processingbusinessVoltage

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The resonant grounding is one of the possible methods of system neutral grounding for the medium-voltage distribution. IEEE standards do define this grounding configuration, but important advantages and drawbacks of the resonant grounding might not be fully known, due to its rather uncommon application in North America. On the other hand, resonant grounding in Europe is imposed by the increased requirements for power quality, especially for medium-voltage industrial users, and imposed to electric utilities by Regulatory Authorities, with the purpose to protect the interests of users and consumers. Level of the continuity of the service, magnitude and phase of ground-fault currents, magnitude of touch voltages, all depend on how the neutral is connected to ground. In this paper, the authors will discuss electrical safety features of the resonant ground, and analyze issues when a substation, originally operated with different methods of system neutral grounding, is reconfigured with a resonant ground.

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2019-05-012019 IEEE/IAS 55th Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I&CPS)
https://doi.org/10.1109/icps.2019.8733369