ECE 6616PD
Electric Safety and Grounding System Design
Undated
Topics
- Electric Shocks, Affected Body Parts, Summary of Causes-Injuries and Death, Flash and Thermal Protection, Safety Grounding Equipment
- The Six Step-Safety Methods, Safe Switching of Power Systems
- Energy Control Program, Placement of safety Grounds
- Flash Hazard Calculations and Approach Distances
- Tool and Test Equipment
- Line Inductance, Resistance, Capacitance
- Analysis of Simple Grounding Systems
- Body Currents Due to Touch and Step Voltages
- Grounding System safety Assessment
- Equivalent Circuit Representation of Grounding Systems
- Parametric Analysis of Substation Ground Mats
- The General Transmission Line Model
- Modal decomposition, Equivalent Circuit, Transmission Line Power Equations
- Sequence Models of Three Phase Apparatus
- Fault Analysis Based on Sequence Models
- Ground Potential Rise During Faults
- Fault Current Distribution Based on Sequence Models
- Direct Phase Analysis
- Transfer Voltage During Faults
- Problem Formulation, Determination of Soil Model
- Computation of Ground Resistances, Maximum Ground Potential Rise
- Investigation of Touch and Step Voltages, Safety Assessment
- The regulatory Bodies, The National Electric Safety Code (NESC)
- The National Electrical Code (NEC) - ANSI/ NFPA 70
Readings
- Electrical Safety Handbook
- IEEE Recommended Practice for Grounding of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems
- IEEE Guide for Safety in AC Substation Grounding
- IEEE Guide for the Application of Neutral Grounding in Electrical Utility Systems: Part II- Grounding of Synchronous Generator Systems
- IEEE Guide for the Application of Neutral Grounding in Electrical Utility Systems Part V- Transmission Systems and Subtransmission Systems
- IEEE Recommended Practice for Determining the Electric Power Substation Ground Potential Rise and Induced Voltage from a Power Fault
- Analysis Techniques for Power Substation Grounding Systems Volume 1: Design Methodology and tests
- Fundamentals of Electrical Safety
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Undated
- Public departmental course outline. Source may be archival; no current-term assignment is implied. Bibliographic details are preserved in textbook notes. Course title supplied from the current catalogue because the archival heading only gives the code. Source term/year not established.