// 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 : 2.2 : // Page number 101 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data l = 100.0 // Length of 3-phase transmission line(km) D = 120.0 // Distance between conductors(cm) d = 0.5 // Diameter of conductor(cm) // Calculations r_GMR = 0.7788*d/2.0 // GMR of conductor(cm) L = 2.0*10**-4*log(D/r_GMR) // Inductance per phase(H/km) L_l = L*l // Inductance per phase for 100km length(H) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 2.2 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nInductance per phase of the system, L = %.4f H \n", L_l) printf("\nNOTE: ERROR: In textbook to calculate L, log10 is used instead of ln i.e natural logarithm. So, there is change in answer")