// A Texbook on POWER SYSTEM ENGINEERING // A.Chakrabarti, M.L.Soni, P.V.Gupta, U.S.Bhatnagar // DHANPAT RAI & Co. // SECOND EDITION // PART II : TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION // CHAPTER 4: OVERHEAD LINE INSULATORS // EXAMPLE : 4.6 : // Page number 186 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data m = 6.0 // Mutual capacitance n = 5.0 // Number of insulators // Calculations E_4 = (1+(1/m)) // Voltage across 4th insulator as percent of E_5(%) E_3 = (1+(3/m)+(1/m**2)) // Voltage across 3rd insulator as percent of E_5(%) E_2 = (1+(6/m)+(5/m**2)+(1/m**3)) // Voltage across 2nd insulator as percent of E_5(%) E_1 = (1+(10/m)+(15/m**2)+(7/m**3)+(1/m**4)) // Voltage across 1st insulator as percent of E_5(%) E_5 = 100/(E_4+E_3+E_2+E_1+1) // Voltage across 5th insulator as percent of E_5(%) E4 = E_4*E_5 // Voltage across 4th insulator as percent of E_5(%) E3 = E_3*E_5 // Voltage across 3rd insulator as percent of E_5(%) E2 = E_2*E_5 // Voltage across 2nd insulator as percent of E_5(%) E1 = E_1*E_5 // Voltage across 1st insulator as percent of E_5(%) eff = 100/(n*E1/100) // String efficiency(%) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 4.6 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nVoltage distribution as a percentage of voltage of conductor to earth are:") printf("\n E_1 = %.2f percent", E1) printf("\n E_2 = %.2f percent", E2) printf("\n E_3 = %.1f percent", E3) printf("\n E_4 = %.1f percent", E4) printf("\n E_5 = %.2f percent", E_5) printf("\nString efficiency = %.f percent \n", eff) printf("\nNOTE: Changes in obtained answer from that of textbook is due to more precision")