// 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 8: CORONA // EXAMPLE : 8.1 : // Page number 227 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data d = 30.0/10 // Diameter of conductor(cm) delta = 0.95 // Air density factor m = 0.95 // Irregularity factor E = 230.0 // Line voltage(kV) g_0 = 30.0/2**0.5 // Breakdown strength of air(kV/cm) // Calculations E_0 = E/3**0.5 // Disruptive critical voltage(kV) r = d/2.0 // Radius of conductor(cm) D = exp(E_0/(m*delta*g_0*r))*r/100 // Minimum spacing between conductors(m) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 8.1 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nMinimum spacing between conductors, D = %.3f m \n", abs(D)) printf("\nNOTE: Changes in obtained answer from that of textbook due to precision")