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Charging Currents in Transmission Lines

Last updated: September 19, 2016 2:42 am
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Any two conductors separated by an insulating medium constitutes a condenser or capacitor.In case of overhead transmission lines, two conductors form the two plates of the capacitor and the air between the conductors behaves as dielectric medium. Thus an overhead transmission line can be assumed to have capacitance between the conductors throughout the length of the line. The capacitance is uniformly distributed over the length of the line and may be considered as uniform series of condensers connected between the conductors.

When an alternating voltage is applied across the transmission line it draws the leading current even when supplying no load. This leading current will be in quadrature with the applied voltage and is termed as charging current. It must be noted that charging current is due to the capacitive effect between the conductors of the line and does not depend on the load. The strength of the charging currents depends on the voltage of transmission, the capacitance of the line and frequency of the ac supply. It is given by the expression

Charging current Ic = 2 . pi . f . C . V

Where  f is the frequency of the supply

           C is the Capacitance of the line

           V is the voltage of the line

If the capacitance of the overhead line is high, the line draws more charging currents which cancels out the lagging component of the load current (normally load is inductive in nature). Hence the resultant current flowing in the line is reduced. The reduction in the resultant current flowing through the transmission line for given load current results in:

  • Reduction of the line losses and so increase of transmission efficiency.
  • Reduction in the voltage drop in the system or improvement of the voltage regulation.
  • Increased load capacity and improved power factor

Significance of Charging currents:

Capacitance effect (responsible for charging currents) of the short transmission lines are negligible. However they are significant in medium and long distance transmission lines.

In long distance transmission lines, during light loaded conditions receiving end voltage will be higher than sending end voltage. This is because of the charging currents and capacitive effect of the line

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  • bishal baniya says:
    December 10, 2017 at 10:26 am

    Nice,but not sufficient

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