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    The paper discusses strategies used in Italy to reduce magnetic fields from underground high voltage cables, including existing and planned installations. It reviews methods of reducing magnetic fields through cable configuration and placement, and through passive or active shielding devices external to cables. Experience shows the best approach depends on whether the intervention involves existing operating cables, requiring minimal excavation, or new installations. For existing cables, open shields of highly conductive materials are most practical. For new installations, trefoil cable arrangements often solve issues, while enclosures of ferromagnetic material provide very strong field reduction when needed. The chosen method should balance magnetic field reduction needs with costs, feasibility and reliability.

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    The paper discusses strategies used in Italy to reduce magnetic fields from underground high voltage cables, including existing and planned installations. It reviews methods of reducing magnetic fields through cable configuration and placement, and through passive or active shielding devices external to cables. Experience shows the best approach depends on whether the intervention involves existing operating cables, requiring minimal excavation, or new installations. For existing cables, open shields of highly conductive materials are most practical. For new installations, trefoil cable arrangements often solve issues, while enclosures of ferromagnetic material provide very strong field reduction when needed. The chosen method should balance magnetic field reduction needs with costs, feasibility and reliability.

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    The paper discusses strategies used in Italy to reduce magnetic fields from underground high voltage cables, including existing and planned installations. It reviews methods of reducing magnetic fields through cable configuration and placement, and through passive or active shielding devices external to cables. Experience shows the best approach depends on whether the intervention involves existing operating cables, requiring minimal excavation, or new installations. For existing cables, open shields of highly conductive materials are most practical. For new installations, trefoil cable arrangements often solve issues, while enclosures of ferromagnetic material provide very strong field reduction when needed. The chosen method should balance magnetic field reduction needs with costs, feasibility and reliability.

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    21, rue d’Artois, F-75008 PARIS C4-303 CIGRE 2006

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    SOME ITALIAN EXPERIENCES IN THE UTILIZATION OF HV UNDERGROUND


    CABLE SYSTEMS TO SOLVE LOCAL PROBLEMS DUE TO MAGNETIC FIELD
    AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

    R. CONTI1, F. DONAZZI2, P. MAIOLI2, R. RENDINA3, E.A. SENA4


    1
    CESI SpA, 2Prysmian Cables & Systems, 3TERNA SpA,
    4
    ENEL Distribuzione SpA
    Italy

    SUMMARY
    The paper illustrates the strategies and techniques adopted in some cases in Italy to overcome, by the
    utilization of HV XLPE cable (unshielded or shielded), the difficulties arising whenever an existing or
    planned HV or EHV line crosses densely populated areas under heavy restrictions on the magnetic
    field. In particular, the paper initially reviews the possible methods to reduce the magnetic field
    produced by underground cable lines, considering both the solutions based on acting on the laying
    parameters (interaxial distance among the phases; laying depth; laying geometry, etc.) and those based
    on the adoption of special apparatuses external to the cable, such as grids of insulated conductors
    (passive or active shielding), and shields made of metallic materials. With regard to these latter
    solutions, in addition to the analysis of their shielding efficiency, the possible technical problems
    linked to losses, thermal properties etc. are also discussed. Particular attention is then paid to new
    developments in the use of ferromagnetic shields and to the description of the main features of the
    most significant installations.
    Authors’ experience shows, in particular, that the choice of the best mitigation strategy depends, first
    of all, on whether the intervention must be carried out on an existing cable system already in operation
    or on a new link still to be laid down. Indeed, in the first case it is essential to operate avoiding any
    risk of damaging the cables and possibly keeping the excavation works to a minimum in order to limit
    the impact of the works on the daily life of the citizens.
    Secondly, the method to be adopted should be chosen on the basis of a careful cost-benefit analysis in
    order to properly balance the shielding efficiency needed to achieve the required field reduction and
    the cost, feasibility and reliability of the available technologies.
    In the light of such considerations, the application of shields of open shape and made of high
    conductivity materials can be considered the most convenient solution for interventions on existing
    cables already in operation. By contrast, for new installations, laying the cables in a trefoil
    arrangement, instead of the conventional flat configuration, represents the technical option that may
    conveniently solve many practical situations. However, in case it would be necessary to obtain a very
    drastic reduction of the magnetic field, the best solution seems to be that of enclosing the cables inside
    a close shield made of ferromagnetic material.
    KEYWORDS
    Cables, Magnetic fields, Power distribution, Power transmission, Shielding.

    * Renato Conti, e-mail: rconti@cesi.it

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