Note on Losses in Cable Sheaths

Author(s):  
F. W. Carter

In a recent communication to the Society, the author referred to cable-sheath losses, and gave formulae for computing them in certain cases. These appertained to power cables in which were comprised a group of conductors, arranged symmetrically and encased in a single conducting sheath. In some distribution systems, however, the conductors for the several phases are encased in separate lead sheaths, which are either laid in proximity as separate cables, or grouped and comprehended in an outer sheath. The analysis previously given does not include such cases directly. Moreover, it is common practice either to lay the elementary cables with sheaths in contact, or to bond the sheaths together at the ends of suitable sections, in order to prevent differences of potential between them; and, when this is done, a circulating current flows in the circuit of the sheaths and bonds, sufficient to maintain equality of potential between the several sheaths. This current, to which reference was made in the former paper, is additional to the eddy current discussed therein, the integral of which over the cross section of the sheath is zero. It is for convenience here referred to as the “circulating current,” to distinguish it from the “eddy current,” although there is no such distinction between them as the names imply.

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Survilo

A Ringed Non-Uniform Network: How to Raise its Efficiency As distinct from radial electric power lines, in closed loops the consumers are fed from two sides. This is advantageous from the viewpoint of supply reliability, power quality and its losses; however, these are the least only when a loop is uniform, which is not always met in practice. In a non-uniform loop a circulating current flows, and the losses increase proportionally to its square. To reduce losses in such a non-uniform loop, the circulating current should be eliminated. For this purpose a booster transformer can be used. The voltage of such a transformer is known to be in quadrature to the phase voltage; the present consideration has shown that such orientation of the opposing voltage gives the best results only when all loads in the loop are active, otherwise the angle of opposing voltage should be regulated. The voltage value should also be regulated depending on the load. Another technique consists in introducing a complementary reactance into the terminal branches. Such reactance should be regulated if loads are changing in time disproportionately with respect to each other. The best results are achieved when all loop node loads have the same cosφ. If the complementary reactance calculated at one end of the loop is positive, then that calculated at the second end of the loop will be negative, and vice versa. The appropriate choice can be made, in particular, involving both loop terminals.


1876 ◽  
Vol 24 (164-170) ◽  
pp. 1-32

When any portion of a conducting-wire which joins the two poles of a voltaic battei'y is increased in size, the resistance of the circuit is diminished and a greater current flows through the wire ; and as any increase in the cross section of any portion of the wire causes a corre­sponding increase in the current, it is clear that there is no part of the conducting-wire through which some portion of the current does not flow from the one pole to the other; and the outer boundary of such a wire will be a line of flow. A line of flow is a line drawn in a conductor which indicates at every point of it the direction of the current at that point. A portion of the conductor completely enclosed by lines of flow may be termed a tube of flow.


Author(s):  
Andrii Bidakov ◽  
Evhenyi Raspopov ◽  
Oksana Pustovoitova

Design of joints of LVL elements with glued-in steel rods and metal connectors is considered as semi-rigid connection and requires taking of account the compliance. A comparative analysis of the test results of the beams with a metal connector and glued-in steel rods as well as solid beams is made in the paper. Design method of glued-in rods in LVL is proposed and taken into account failure mode. It allows reducing the distance between the axes of the rods as well as the distance from the rod axіs to the edges in the cross section of the beam and increasing the joint strength.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 3034
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Zhang ◽  
Hui Yin

The measurements of the diameter of different layers, the thickness of different layers and the eccentricity of insulation layer in the cross-section of power cables are important items of power cable test, which currently depend on labor-intensive manual operations. To improve efficiency, automatic measurement methods are in urgent need. In this paper, a monocular vision-based framework for automatic measurement of the diameter, thickness, and eccentricity of interest in the cross-section of power cables is proposed. The proposed framework mainly consists of three steps. In the first step, the images of cable cross-section are captured and undistorted with the camera calibration parameters. In the second step, the contours of each layer are detected in the cable cross-section image. In order to detect the complete and accurate contours of each layer, the structural edges in the cross-section image are firstly detected and divided into individual layers, then unconnected edges are connected by arc-based method, and finally contours are refined by the proposed break detection and grouping (BDG) and linear trend-based correction (LTBC) algorithm. In the third step, the monocular vision-based cross-section dimension measurement is accomplished by placing a chessboard coplanar with the power cable cross-section plane. The homography matrix mapping pixel coordinates to chessboard world coordinates is estimated, and the diameter, thickness and eccentricity of specific layers are calculated by homography matrix-based measurement method. Simulated data and actual cable data are both used to validate the proposed method. The experimental results show that diameter, minimum thickness, mean thickness and insulation eccentricity of simulated image without additive noise are measured with root mean squared error (RMSE) of 0.424, 0.103 and 0.063 mm, and 0.002, respectively, those of simulated image with additive Gaussian noise and salt and pepper noise are measured with RMSE of 0.502, 0.243 and 0.058 mm and 0.001. Diameter, minimum thickness and mean thickness of actual cable images are measured with average RMSE of 0.768, 0.308 and 0.327 mm. The measurement error of insulation eccentricity of actual cable image is comparatively large, and the measurement accuracy should be improved.


1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 701 ◽  
Author(s):  
JP England ◽  
MT Elford

Measurements of electron drift velocities have been made in 0�4673% and 1�686% hydrogenkrypton mixtures at 293 K and values of E/ N from 0�08 to 2�5 Td with an estimated uncertainty of <�0�7%. The data have been used in conjunction with the H2 cross sections of England et aL (1988) to derive the momentum transfer cross section for krypton over the energy range 0�05 to 6�0 eV. The drift velocity data have also been used to test the Kr momentum transfer cross sections of Koizumi et aL (1986) and Hunter (personal communication 1988). The cross section of Koizumi et aL is clearly incompatible with the present measurements while the cross section of Hunter has been used to predict these measurements to within 1% to 3%.


1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-203
Author(s):  
Anni Cai ◽  
Jing Ao Sun ◽  
Glen Wade

In this paper, we present a theoretical model of a parametric array for tomographic applications. The array in the model is assumed to extend right up to the receiver and its cross section is assumed not to be negligible. These two assumptions have not been previously made in applications concerned with tomography. We invoke conditions that permit the derivation of a simple relation for tomographic reconstruction of variations in the acoustic nonlinear parameter throughout the cross section of an object.


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (s1) ◽  
pp. 501-509
Author(s):  
Leszek Wysocki ◽  
Cezary Madryas ◽  
Jacek Grosel

Abstract Brick sewers were designed as egg-shaped, pear-shaped, bell-shaped, vaulted, and even rectangular (sometimes with granite ceilings and floor slabs). In exceptional cases, circular sections were also made of brick. Efforts were made in order to ensure optimal flow conditions, and also that the cross-section was adapted to the shape of the rock mass pressure line. This is due to the fact that the most advantageous shapes for masonry collectors are shapes in which no tensile stresses will occur in any part of the cross-section under the influence of external loads. Nevertheless, sewage conduits degrade over time. The boundary conditions of their use also change, which affects the magnitude of mechanical and hydraulic loads. Further use of a sewer in such a case requires its renewal, and less frequently, modernization that results from the necessity to change its function. This is usually done by introducing a new conduit into the interior of the renovated or modernized sewer, which in literature is called a liner. The aim of the analysis was to determine the thickness of the liners that strengthen the structures of brick channels with an inverted egg cross-section and with dimensions of 1050 × 700 mm, which are intended for gravitational sewage systems. The analysis included the performance of variant static and strength calculations for the assumption that the conduit after its modernization will be replaced with a conduit operating in the pressure system, which is a very rare requirement. It was assumed that the best solution would be to use a CIPP (Cured In Place Pipe) liner.


2020 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 07016
Author(s):  
Y. Saito ◽  
K. Shiraishi ◽  
A. Nishimura ◽  
T. Kirinaka ◽  
Y. Sakurai ◽  
...  

A database containing spectrum and cross-section of the fluorescence of substances has been made. In test of forest environment monitoring by our Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectrum (LIFS) lidar, the database showed that the origin substance of the aerosol observed by the lidar was cedar pollen, and the concentration was calculated using the cross-section. In the urban atmosphere monitoring, three substances stored in the database were proposed to be the origins of the aerosol. Based on these experiments, we discuss the usefulness of the fluorescence database in lidar observations.


Author(s):  
V. Mizuhira ◽  
Y. Futaesaku

Previously we reported that tannic acid is a very effective fixative for proteins including polypeptides. Especially, in the cross section of microtubules, thirteen submits in A-tubule and eleven in B-tubule could be observed very clearly. An elastic fiber could be demonstrated very clearly, as an electron opaque, homogeneous fiber. However, tannic acid did not penetrate into the deep portion of the tissue-block. So we tried Catechin. This shows almost the same chemical natures as that of proteins, as tannic acid. Moreover, we thought that catechin should have two active-reaction sites, one is phenol,and the other is catechole. Catechole site should react with osmium, to make Os- black. Phenol-site should react with peroxidase existing perhydroxide.


Author(s):  
Tamotsu Ohno

The energy distribution in an electron; beam from an electron gun provided with a biased Wehnelt cylinder was measured by a retarding potential analyser. All the measurements were carried out with a beam of small angular divergence (<3xl0-4 rad) to eliminate the apparent increase of energy width as pointed out by Ichinokawa.The cross section of the beam from a gun with a tungsten hairpin cathode varies as shown in Fig.1a with the bias voltage Vg. The central part of the beam was analysed. An example of the integral curve as well as the energy spectrum is shown in Fig.2. The integral width of the spectrum ΔEi varies with Vg as shown in Fig.1b The width ΔEi is smaller than the Maxwellian width near the cut-off. As |Vg| is decreased, ΔEi increases beyond the Maxwellian width, reaches a maximum and then decreases. Note that the cross section of the beam enlarges with decreasing |Vg|.


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