Soil ionization gradient associated with discharge of high currents into concentrated electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 1669-1677

  Mousa, Abdul M ^a  

^a BC HYDRO   (Canada)

Author keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES: In Soil; ELECTRIC LINES: Lightning Performance; GROUNDING; LIGHTNING

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GRAPHIC METHODS; GROUNDING ELECTRODES; IONIZATION; LIGHTNING PROTECTION; SOILS;

CURRENT DENSITY; GROUND POTENTIAL; GROUNDING RESISTANCE; ROD ELECTRODES; SOIL IONIZATION GRADIENT;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING;

EID: 0028461345     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: 19374208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.311195     Document Type: Article

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