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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