// 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 : 8.5 : // Page number 229 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data V = 132.0 // Operating line voltage(kV) dia = 1.956 // Diameter of conductor(cm) v_c = 210.0 // Disrputive voltage(kV) g_0 = 30.0/2**0.5 // Breakdown strength of air(kV/cm) // Calculations r = dia/2.0 // Radius of conductor(cm) V_c = v_c/3**0.5 // Disrputive voltage/phase(kV) m_0 = 1.0 // Irregularity factor delta = 1.0 // Air density factor d = exp(V_c/(m_0*delta*g_0*r))*r // Spacing between conductors(cm) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 8.5 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nSpacing between the conductors, d = %.f cm \n", abs(d)) printf("\nNOTE: Changes in the obtained answer from that of textbook is due to precision")