What is an Effective Grounding?
Effective grounding is essential to: Prevent the enclosure of an electrical equipment and its connected conductors rising to a potential dangerously above that of its surroundings or ground. If the …
Cable Shield and Outer Sheath Grounding (Earthing)
Cable shields and the metallic sheaths or armors need to be solidly grounded on at least one point in order to operate at or near ground potential at all times. …
Lightning Protection Of Oil And Gas Industrial Plants
Storage Tank Explosion Lightning struck a large oil storage tank on the evening of Friday, 05 August 2022 in Matanzas, Cuba, causing a huge fire. It is now spreading to …
Determining the required sizes of earthing conductors and earth electrodes
The sizes of earth conductors and earth electrodes are almost always chosen from typical sizes as provided by a particular project standard. If using non-typical sizes can extensively impact the …
Cathodic Protection and Earthing
Cathodic protection and earthing are two different topics belonging to the opposite sides of the spectrum. The implementation and principles are actually different. To simply illustrate what I mean, for …