Skip to content

A python library for design of earthing networks in electrical substations.

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

manuvarkey/Earthing

Repository files navigation

Earthing

PyPI Release License

A python library for design of earthing networks in electrical substations.

Features

  • Earth grid design as per IEEE 80/ ENA_ER_S34
  • Numerical earth network calculations using using boundary descretisation method.
  • Evaluation of earth resistance of various earth electrode geometries.
  • 3D plotting of electrode geometry used for design.
  • 3D plotting of current density distribution for the earth network.
  • 2D/3D plotting of surface potential distribution.
  • Ploting and evaluation of mesh and step potentials.

Problem geometry Problem geometry solved Surface potential distribuion Mesh voltage profile Step voltage profile

Usage

Package is available on PyPI for installation (https://pypi.org/project/earthing). Use pip install earthing to install.

Program source includes detailed usage instructions for various functions and classes. Alternately project page has ipython notebooks covering typical use cases.

Dependencies:

  • Python 3
  • Numpy
  • Matplotlib