For improving and stabilising the earth electrode resistance.
Highly swellable, powdery and extremely moisture retaining special clay provides a conductive earth electrode enclosure and reduces the soil resistivity.
Principle of the DEHNIT earthing method is to bind the fine-grained DEHNIT with water and sand and to enclose the earth electrode with this mixture. This enclosure is onductive and thus it increases the earth electrode surface.
The DEHNIT enclosure method has three important benefits compared with the conventional earthing method:
A low soil resistivity can be achieved even in case of a poor ground conductivity
The DEHNIT enclosure method reduces the soil resistivity by approx. 50 %, therefore lower costs for earth electrode material.
The achieved soil resistivity is mostly independent of temperature and weather fluctuations and remain constant for years (see Figure 1).