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4.11.2 Types <strong>of</strong> earthings<br />

Equipment Earthing<br />

There are two types <strong>of</strong> earthing namely<br />

i) Equipment earthing<br />

ii) System earthing<br />

Equipment earthing is for the safety <strong>of</strong> operating personel, public and property. In this<br />

earthing all the non-current carrying metallic parts, such as frame <strong>of</strong> circuit breakers, interruptors,<br />

transformers, potential and current transformer, steel structures, fencing panels and uprights are<br />

connected to main earthing bus also known as earth grid by means <strong>of</strong> two separate and direct<br />

connectors. During an earth fault in the <strong>equipment</strong> heavy leakage current flows to earth resulting<br />

in potential rise almost that <strong>of</strong> live conductor and at that time if any person comes in contact<br />

with the frames or carrying maintenance will get severe shock which may prove to be fatal.<br />

Therefore, it is very essential to maintain a very low earth resistance value for all the metal parts<br />

so as to enable circuit breaking device to trip at pre-determined value.<br />

4.11.3 System earthing<br />

In system earthing one leg <strong>of</strong> the secondary bushing on 25KV side <strong>of</strong> each<br />

traction power tranformer is solidly earthed by connecting it to the earthing ring by means <strong>of</strong><br />

two 75mm X 8mm or 80mm X 12mm M.S. flats. Further the earthing ring shall be<br />

connected to a buried rail in the ground by the side <strong>of</strong> the track by means <strong>of</strong> four 75mm X<br />

8mm M.S. flats (for two track section).<br />

One <strong>of</strong> the designated terminals <strong>of</strong> the secondary <strong>of</strong> each potential, current and<br />

auxiliary supply transformers is also connected to the earthing ring by means <strong>of</strong> duplicate<br />

50mm X 6mm MS flats.<br />

4.11.4 Earth resistance<br />

At each power supply installations, an earthing ring or bus comprising the required<br />

number <strong>of</strong> earth electrodes, also called earthing stations; inter connected by means <strong>of</strong> MS<br />

flat is provided. The combined resistance <strong>of</strong> system earth is not allowed to exceed the<br />

following limits.<br />

Traction Sub-station - 0.5 ohms<br />

switching station - 2.0 ohms<br />

Booster Transformer Station - 2.0 ohms<br />

Auxiliary supply transformer station - 10.0 ohms<br />

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