A holistic stray current assessment of bored tunnel sections of DC transit systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1048-1056

  Charalambous, Charalambos A ^a   Cotton, Ian ^b   Aylott, Pete ^c   Kokkinos, Nikolaos D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CAPCIS Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d Research and Development Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bored tunnel sections (BTSs); boundary element method; dc transit systems; stray current design and control; tunnel service insulation

Indexed keywords

BORED TUNNELS; DESIGN AND CONTROL; DESIGN OPTION; EN STANDARDS; STRAY CURRENT; THIRD PARTIES; TRANSIT SYSTEMS;

DESIGN; SAILING VESSELS;

TUNNELS;

EID: 84875661920     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2227835     Document Type: Article

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