Dear Sirs,
Determination of soil resistivity is important for designing substation grounding systems.
For example: if a substation under consideration reads 270 ohms meter to 4.5 kilo-ohms of resistivity when the soil resistivity was measured - what value of resistivity should be considered for designing substation grounding systems?
I understand that - we are only measuring apparent value of soil resistivity and this is used to find the reduction factor for derating the nominal value of surface layer resistivity.
The best (lowest) value obtained (for 1 metre electrode spacing using wenner method) is 270 ohm metres. Can this value be considered for substation grounding system design?
Regards,