// 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 : 8.2 : // Page number 227-228 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data V = 220.0 // Operating line voltage(kV) f = 50.0 // Frequency(Hz) d = 1.5 // Diameter of conductor(cm) D = 300.0 // Distance b/w conductor(cm) delta = 1.05 // Air density factor g_0 = 21.1 // Breakdown strength of air(kV/cm) m = 1.0 // Irregularity factor // Calculations E = V/3**0.5 // Phase voltage(kV) r = d/2.0 // Radius of conductor(cm) E_0 = m*g_0*delta*r*log(D/r) // Disruptive critical voltage to neutral(kV/phase) E_0_ll = 3**0.5*E_0 // Line-to-line Disruptive critical voltage(kV) P = 244.0*10**-5*(f+25)/delta*(r/D)**0.5*(E-E_0)**2 // Corona loss(kW/km/phase) P_total = P*3.0 // Corona loss(kW/km) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 8.2 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nCritical disruptive voltage, E_0 = %.2f kV/phase = %.2f kV (line-to-line)", E_0,E_0_ll) printf("\nCorona loss, P = %.2f kW/km \n", P_total) printf("\nNOTE: ERROR: Calculation mistake in the final answer in textbook")