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Streets® draws on Safearth’s decades of experience in earthing design, software development and earthing testing. It solves the thorny problem of producing safe distribution designs without employing complex, costly multipurpose earthing design tools or using “free” tools with limited accuracy and capability—often based on formulaic empirical approximations rather than a proven analytical calculation engine.
Producing risk-based distribution earthing designs can be tricky and time-consuming. People living all around electrical assets need to be kept safe during earth fault events, but design budgets are usually very limited and the earthing system must be affordable to build. All this puts a lot of pressure on the earthing designer.
Streets design software has been developed to address this very problem. This simple but extremely powerful tool enables designers to explore the available options and develop the best solution as quickly as possible, in order to meet the relevant Australian Standards.
- Quickly analyse soil test results
- Select applicable safety criteria
- Recalculate fault levels & clearing times
- Assess hazards against criteria
- Model earth return paths and MEN
- See current distributions
- Specify local earthing
- Graph results
- Generate report
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Key Features
- Tailored distribution design process in accordance with AS2067
- Analyse Wenner soil resistivity results and create a homogenous or two-layer model
- Model buried earthing for common and separate designs
- Specify supply voltage and prospective fault level and clearing time
- Calculate EPR based on prospective fault level
- Recalculate fault current and clearing times to account for all earthing impedances
- Analyse local and system earthing elements
- Calculate MEN input impedance
- Calculate conductive and inductive current distribution for interconnections
- Model multiple interconnected distribution assets in one design
- Calculate clearing times for relays and fuses
- Show schematic view of earthing arrangement
- Specify radius for calculation of soil voltage profiles and exclusion zone distances
- Select applicable hazard scenarios
- Select safety criteria from various Australian Standards
- Review compliance of design to criteria
- Review results in tabular and graphical form
- Calculate exclusion zones required around the earthing system to selected assets
- Automatically generate the design report
- Categorise and organise design input resources
- See the effect of a fault on other assets in the model
Save time and money on distribution earthing design and construction with Safearth’s state‑of‑the‑art tool.
Complex design tools are usually expensive to buy, maintain and train staff in their correct use. Producing distribution earthing designs that model the surrounding MEN (Multiple Earth Neutral) and earthing interconnections is very time-consuming in such tools as they provide great flexibility but also require significant data input, which can dramatically increase the cost of accurate earthing design.
Free tools often rely on modelling approximations, which can lead to unnecessarily conservative earthing designs which are costly to build or designs with significantly higher risk than indicated by the tools. In addition, they are often accompanied by lots of procedures to manage cases the software can’t handle.
Make use of our training course, online or in-person: Distribution Earthing Design Essentials Using Streets®
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