Human body surface electric-field intensity analysis and safety design on live working platform during live maintenance in 330 kV substation

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Liu, Zirui^a | Zhang, Xinyi^b | Han, Yanhua^c | Niu, Bo^c | Zhang, Dingrui^d | Pu, Tingyan^e | Liang, Qinghua^{d; *}

Affiliations: [a] State Grid Shaanxi Electric Power Company, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710048, China | [b] State Grid Xi’an Power Supply Company, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, China | [c] Power Science Research Institute of Shaanxi Electric Power Company, State Power Network, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710100, China | [d] Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 201100, China | [e] Beijing Ruying Zhituo Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd., Beijing 100071, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Qinghua Liang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, no. 800, Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai 201100, China. Email: qhualqingh@126.com.

Abstract: This paper focuses on the safety of the operators utilizing live working platform in the course of the live maintenance in 330 kV substation. Primarily, a finite element model is built in a bid to analyse the surface field intensity of the operators. On this basis, the distribution of the electric field intensity on human body surface under different working conditions, when operators are in different postures as well as in different material buckets is analysed. Finally, the protection suggestions are given.

Keywords: Human surface field intensity, live working, finite element model, human posture, material of working bucket

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-193991

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 597-607, 2020