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Underground Cables vs Inductance

11/21/2011 1:51 PM

Why underground cables has high inductance compare to same rating of over head lines?

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Re: Underground Cables vs Inductance

11/21/2011 4:34 PM

I think you have that reversed. Maybe you mean capacitive reactance.

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Re: Underground Cables vs Inductance

11/21/2011 5:26 PM

I do not think you are generally correct - the inductance of 3 conductors in equilateral spacing depends on the ratio [D - r]/ r = [D/r] - 1 where D is the spacing between centres and r is conductor diameter. Since D/r is so much less in underground cables, which usually have solid insulation rather than air in overhead, they are going to have less inductance.

If you wrote that underground cable had much higher capacitance than overhead, this would certainly be true - because the geometric effect and the high permittivity of solid insulation compared to air considerably increases capacitance.

You need to clarify the kinds of cable/line at which you are looking. Temperature of overhead bare cable at rating is less than buried and ambient/sun have more effect - buried cables may have water cooling which increases rating for size, decreasing inductance/rating.

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