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Fall 2024
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ELEC 3501P - Grounding EMI Power Quality
Associated Term: Fall 2024
Learning Objectives: • Grounding of electrical installations • Purposes of grounding and bonding • Grounding and bonding objectives • Grounding standards • NEC - Article 250 • Steel conduit as ground conductor • Protection coordination • Safety assessment • Objectionable currents • Electromagnetic influence • Power quality • Harmonics • E/M transients • Effects of grounding on power quality • Voltage sags and swells • Mitigation methods/standards • Fault delayed voltage recovery • Energization phenomena
Required Materials: Related Recommended Publications (not required) Purchase from Georgia Tech: - Power System Grounding and Transients by A. P. "Sakis" Meliopoulos, 2nd printing, Marcel Dekker Inc., 1988. Purchase from an outside vendor (ex: Amazon): - Electrical Raceways and Other Wiring Methods, 5th Edition, Richard E. Loyd, Delmar Publishers, Inc., 2005 Bring Your Laptops! All participants are encouraged to bring a laptop computer to utilize the GEMI software in performing course exercises. GEMI software requires an IBM compatible PC with a Pentium or equivalent processor and a Windows 9X, 2000, or a Windows NT or XP operating system.
Technical Requirements: - Class notes. - Free copy of the Grounding and ElectroMagnetic Interference (GEMI) Analysis software. - Selected chapters from Electric Power Quality: An Introduction by A. P. Meliopoulos and G. J. Cokkinides. - Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report, "Modeling and Testing of Steel EMT, IMC and Rigid (GRC) Conduit," May 1994. - Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report, "Modeling and Evaluation of Conduit Systems for Harmonics and Electromagnetic Fields," July 1997.


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