How to calculate a single phase to ground Short Circuit throught a protective earth wire?

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Short-Circuit
Answer

There are two ways to calculate this kind of fault:

  • Use a 4-wire model in which the N-conductor is explicitly modelled and the PE-wire is reduced and modelled as earth. Then when calculate a phase to ground Short-Circuit, the phase to PE-wire is reproduced.
  • The second option is to use a model with the PE-wire explicitly modelled, as an additional single-phase model. For this approximation is necessary to add an auxiliary node for IEC/VDE SC calculation.


In the attached example note that the result for both approximations is the same.

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