STUDY OF LOW VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN BLOCK 5, UTP

• Main Author: MAHMUD, MUHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2008
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10011/1/2008%20Bachelor%20-%20Study%20Of%20Low%20Voltage%20Distribution%20System%20In%20Block%205-UTP.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/10011/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

System safety is one of the important factors that need to be considered in designing a building. According to NIOSH, electrocution is the third leading cause of work related death and many had suffered due to electrical bums. Improper safety design could causes fire and damaged of property and possibly loss of death. Due to that problem, it is essential to conduct a study on the safety that will focus on earthing system on Universiti Teknologi Petronas new academic building. Apart from that, the study will include the effect of the cable sizing in determining power losses and voltage drop. From this project, the author has a general knowledge on reading single line diagram. Most of the earthing system is in good condition and only few of them have to do some improvement. There are a few methods that can be applied for improvement such as replacing new earth electrode, adding electrode, and changing the soil resistivity. For the effect of cable sizing in determine power losses and voltage drop, the relationship between cable impedance and power losses could be observed. During this project, data collection is the most important part. Example of the data is like cable sizing, impedance measurement and single line diagram. After getting the data, the study could be conducted on earthing system. For the relation between cable sizing and power loss, it is done by simulate on the SKM power tools software. By the end of this project, the author could have knowledge on how the implementation of safety in the building apart from observing the effect of cable sizing in power flow and voltage drops.