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Thermal analysis of underground power cable system

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The paper presents the application of Finite Element Method in thermal analysis of underground power cable system. The computations were performed for power cables buried in-line in the ground at a depth of 2 meters. The developed mathematical model allows determining the two-dimensional temperature distribution in the soil, thermal backfill and power cables. The simulations studied the effect of soil and cable backfill thermal conductivity on the maximum temperature of the cable conductor. Also, the effect of cable diameter on the temperature of cable core was studied. Numerical analyses were performed based on a program written in MATLAB.

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  1. Institute of Thermal Power Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, al. Jana Pawła II 37, 31-864, Krakow, Poland

    Monika Rerak & Paweł Ocłoń

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Rerak, M., Ocłoń, P. Thermal analysis of underground power cable system. J. Therm. Sci. 26, 465–471 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-017-0963-2

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