// 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 2: CONSTANTS OF OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINES // EXAMPLE : 2.18 : // Page number 115 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data d = 2.0/100 // Diameter of conductor(m) D_AB = 4.0 // Spacing between conductor A & B(m) D_BC = 4.0 // Spacing between conductor B & C(m) D_CA = 8.0 // Spacing between conductor C & A(m) // Calculations r = d/2 // Radius of conductor(m) e = 1.0/(36*%pi)*10**-9 // Constant ε_0 D_eq = (D_AB*D_BC*D_CA)**(1.0/3) // Equivalent distance(m) C_n = 2*%pi*e/log(D_eq/r)*1000.0 // Capacitance to neutral(F/km) C_nu = C_n*10.0**6 // Capacitance to neutral(μF/km) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 2.18 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nNew value of capacitance, C_n = %.5f μF/km \n", C_nu) printf("\nNOTE: Changes in the obtained answer from that of textbook is due to more approximation in the textbook")