// 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 : 2.25 : // Page number 120 clear ; clc ; close ; // Clear the work space and console // Given data d_1 = 6.0 // Distance between conductor 1 & 2(m) d_2 = 6.0 // Distance between conductor 2 & 3(m) d_3 = 12.0 // Distance between conductor 3 & 1(m) dia = 1.24/100 // Diameter of conductor(m) l = 100.0 // Length of line(km) // Calculations r = dia/2 // Radius of conductor(m) e = 8.854*10**-12 // Constant ε_0 d = (d_1*d_2*d_3)**(1.0/3) // Distance(m) C = 2*%pi*e/log(d/r) // Capacitance(F/m) C_l = C*1000.0*l // Capacitance for entire length(F) C_lu = C_l*10.0**6 // Capacitance for entire length(μF) // Results disp("PART II - EXAMPLE : 2.25 : SOLUTION :-") printf("\nCapacitance of the line, C = %.3f μF", C_lu)