Computational Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields near H.V. Transmission Lines
- 1
- 2
- 3
Abstract
Biological effects of electromagnetic fields on the human body, animals and plants have been a subject of scientific interest and public concern for their risk on the living organisms such as blood leukemia and others. The high voltage transmission and distribution lines, which pass beside some houses, factories and schools are source of electromagnetic fields. This paper presents the field calculations around and near of high voltage transmission lines 220 kV and 500kV. To calculate the induced current, the power density, the electric field and the magnetic field of grounded and ungrounded human body cylindrical model are used. MATLAB program package is used for mathematical calculation of the distribution of the EMF in human body under high voltage power transmission lines.
- H. E. Manders and N. S. Van Nielen, “The magnetic field surrounding high tension lines in the Netherlands and their influence on humans and animals,” Elektrotechniek, Vol. 59, No. 7, 1981.
- R. Hauf, “Non-ionizing radiation protection,” Copenhagen, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, WHO Regional Publications, European Series No. 10, 1982.
- R. W. P. Kinga and T. T. Wu, “The complete electromagnetic field of a three-phase transmission line over the earth and its interaction with the human body,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 78, No. 2, 1995.
- D. Margetis, “Electromagnetic fields in air of traveling-wave currents above the earth,” Journal of mathematical physics, Vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 5870–5893, 1998.
- F. Barnes and B. Greenebaum, “Book of bioengineering and biophysical aspects of electromagnetic fields,” 2006.
- J. Jin, “The finite element method in electromagnetics,” Wiley, New York, 1993.
- D. M. Sullivan, D. T. Borup, and O. P. Gandhi, “Use of the finite-difference time-domain method in calculating EM absorption in human tissues,” IEEE Transactions on Bioengineering, Vol. BME-34, pp. 148–157, February 1987.
- R. W. P. King, “Fields and currents in the organs of the human body when exposed to power lines and VLF transmitters,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 520–530, April 1998.
- D. G. Wu, “Numerical analysis of interactions between fields and human bodies,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Houston, May 2006.
- Barchanski, M. Clemenc, H. De Gersem, and T. Weiland, “Efficient calculation of current densities in the human body induced by arbitrarily shaped, low frequency magnetic field sources,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 214, pp. 81–95, 2006.