What is Chemical Earthing, and what is the Earthing Installation Process?

Chemical Earthing today has become a vital aspect of all electrical installations and facilities, from Low Voltage Distribution Networks to High Voltage Transmission Systems and small electrical appliances to next-generation sensitive electronic gadgets/goods.

Gone are the days of earlier conventional earthing using Charcoal and Salt as additives to reduce soil resistance and provide low-resistance earthing to electrical utilities. Here we will be sharing with you several essential know-how of chemical earthing features like Chemical Earthing Price, Copper Chemical Earthing Price, Chemical Earthing for Home, Bentonite Chemical used for Earthing, Copper Chemical Earthing Electrode, Maintenance Free Chemical Earthing System, etc., one must know before going for it.

What is Chemical Earthing?

Chemical Earthing is an advanced form of Maintenance Free Earthing utilizing Superior ground-enhancing compounds such as Back Fill Compound to reduce the ground resistance to get low-resistance earthing in place of Charcoal and salt, as used in conventional earthing of earlier days.

Where do we use Chemical Earthing?

Chemical Earthing is the backbone of all electrical installations, utilities, appliances, and systems. It is mandatory for all Electrical systems without any scope of relaxation for any type for anything related to electrical systems and electricity.

It is a must for all homes, residences, offices, institutions, buildings, structures, colleges, monuments, industries, oil and gas plants, refineries, hospitals, data centres, military installations, defence centres, and whatever and wherever electricity comes into play or exists.

What is a Chemical Earth Pit?

A Chemical Earthing Pit is a 4-5 Inches hole, 1 to 3 meters deep, made into the ground, (depending on the width and the length of the earthing electrode) for installing the earthing electrode surrounded and packed with Ground Enhancing compound (commonly known as Back Fill Compound) inside the ground in the dug Chemical Earth Pit.

What is the difference between Normal Conventional Earthing and Chemical Earthing?

Chemical Earthing differs from Normal Conventional Earthing on several grounds.

Back Fill Compounds used for reducing ground resistance: The Chemical Earthing utilizes Advance Ground Enhancing Compounds, also known as Chemical Earthing Powder, or Chemical Earthing Compounds based on bentonite, silica, or other chemicals in spite of using Charcoal and Salt, as used in conventional Earthing. The Bentonite Chemical for earthing is used the most, along with the Silica-based Back Fill Compound or Silica-based Chemical Earthing Powder.

Type of Earthing electrodes used: In Chemical Earthing, usually Earthing Electrodes like Pure Copper Earthing Electrodes, Copper Bonded Earthing Electrodes, GI Earthing Electrodes, Pipe-in-Pipe Earthing Electrodes are used in comparison to Pure Copper Earthing Plates, or GI Earthing Plates used in Conventional Earthing. The Chemical Earthing Material used in Chemical Earthing is far superior to the material used in Conventional Earthing.

Service Life of Earthing: Chemical Earthing has a long service life of 12-15 years in comparison to the 3-4 years of service life of Conventional Earthing. Chemical Earthing for homes goes a further long way in comparison to that of normally used conventional earthing.

Chemical Earthing Prices: Chemical earthing prices are far more reasonable than Conventional Earthing Prices owing to their longer service life. As the service life of earthing gets spread over more usable years in chemical earthing, its cost drastically gets reduced, thus providing more value and return on the investment.

Time/Effort required in Installation: Chemical Earthing requires less time and effort in installation in comparison to that Conventional Earthing. In Chemical Earthing, just 4-5 Inches of a hole is augured, in spite of digging a large pit as done in conventional earthing. Secondly, Chemical Earthing doesn't require any additional effort and cost of laying a 1-3 meters perforated pipe with a funnel on the top to water the pit on a regular basis.

What is a Chemical Earthing Electrode? What are various Chemical Earthing Electrode sizes and specifications?

A Chemical Earthing Electrode is a Pure Copper, Copper Bonded, or GI pipe/rod used as an inserted conductor into the ground to dissipate the earthing current, or leakage current or fault current, seamlessly into the ground, without giving much electrical resistance to the dissipating fault current, and that too in a mere fraction of second. The Earthing Electrode could be a hollow pipe, a rod, or a bar, depending on the requirement.

There is one more form of earthing electrode known as the Pipe-in-Pipe earthing electrode. In it, there are two concentric pipes filled with the backfill compound between their gap and the inside of the inner hollow pipe.

The Earthing Electrodes could be in the form of Copper or GI Earthing plates. These earthing plates are commonly 300mmx300mm or 400mmx400mm with 2-3 mm thickness. These Earthing plates are packed with Chemical Back Fill Compounds the way the pipes/rods are packed with.

What is Chemical Earthing Material/Compound?

Chemical Earthing Material is a low-resistance Compound that is inserted in the earth pit to surround the earthing electrode in such a way as to pack it from all sides while providing a close to zero resistance path to the current meaning for dissipating in the ground.

How to Install Chemical Earthing?

Installing Chemical Earthing is just a couple of hours' job. It requires to follow following steps:

      Dig a 4-5 Inches 1-3 meter pit-hole in the ground with the help of an augur.
      Lay an Earthing Electrode into it.
      Pour a slurry of Chemical Earthing Compound into the pit hole to surround and pack the earthing electrode in it.
      Connect the Earthing Electrode Terminal protruding out of the earthing pit on the top of the chemical earthing pit with the load/application through the GI Earthing Strip, Copper Earthing Strip, or Earthing wire.
      Cover the Earthing Electrode with Pit Cover to protect it from vandalism.

How much does Chemical Earthing cost?

The Chemical Earthing price starts from 4-5 thousand and goes up depending on the type of earthing electrode and the backfill compound we are using for the earthing installation. The Copper Chemical Earthing price is higher than the other types of Earthing which use other types of Chemical Earthing Rods or Earthing Electrodes. The Chemical Earthing Rods Prices play a major role in deciding Chemical Earthing Prices.

We at True Power manufacture all types of Earthing Electrodes, including Pure Copper Earthing Electrodes, Copper Bonded Earthing Electrodes, GI Earthing Electrodes, Pipe-in-pipe Earthing Electrodes, along with Chemical Earthing Rods of different types.

Talk to us today to know about Chemical Earthing Prices, Earthing Chemical Prices, or other clarifications regarding Maintenance Free Chemical Earthing systems. We would be glad to share with your our Chemical Earthing Cost and features of Chemical Earthing Material.

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