Impact of photovoltaic-oriented DC stray current corrosion on large-scale solar farms' grounding and third-party infrastructure: modeling and assessment

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 5421-5430

  Charalambous, Charalambos A ^a   Demetriou, Andreas ^a   Kokkinos, Nikolaos D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Research and Development Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corrosion; DC Stray Current; Grounding electrodes; Metallic pipelines; Solar Systems

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; ELECTRODES; GAS PLANTS; GROUNDING ELECTRODES; NATURAL GAS PIPELINES; PIPELINES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ABNORMAL CONDITIONS; BURIED CABLES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PV PLANTS; SOLAR PLANT; STRAY CURRENT; STRAY CURRENT CORROSION; THIRD PARTIES;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING;

EID: 84958180725     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2015.2416241     Document Type: Article

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