Numerical Simulations of the Flow Field around a Cylindrical Lightning Rod

As an important lightning protection device in substations,lightning rods are susceptible to vibration and potential structural damage under wind loads.In order to understand their vibration mechanism,it is necessary to conduct flow analysis.In this study,numerical simulations of the flow field around a 330 kV cylindrical lightning rod with different diameters were performed using the SST k-ωmodel.The flow patterns in different segments of the lightning rod at the same reference wind speed(wind speed at a height of 10 m)and the flow patterns in the same segment at different reference wind speeds were investigated.The variations of lift coefficient,drag coefficient,and vorticity distribution were obtained.The results showed that vortex shedding phenomena occurred in all segments of the lightning rod,and the strength of vortex shedding increased with decreasing diameter.The vorticity magnitude and the root mean square magnitudes of the lift coefficient and drag coefficient also increased accordingly.The time history curves of the lift coefficient and drag coefficient on the surface of the lightning rod exhibited sinusoidal patterns with a single dominant frequency.For the same segment,as the wind speed increased in a certain range,the root mean square values of the lift coefficient and drag coefficient decreased,while their dominant frequencies increased.Moreover,there was a proportional relationship between the dominant frequencies of the lift coefficient and drag coefficient.The findings of this study can provide valuable insights for the refined design of lightning rods with similar structures.

Construction Technology of Lightning Protection Devices in Building Electrical Installation Engineering

To better improve the electrical safety of buildings and fulfill the role of lightning protection and grounding,this article combines cases and discusses seven aspects of lightning protection devices’construction technology.These aspects include the lightning protection classification of buildings,air terminals,down conductors,grounding devices,division of lightning protection zones,and lightning electromagnetic pulse shielding.Through the introduction of this article,readers can gain a comprehensive understanding of the application and value of lightning protection grounding construction technology in building electrical installation projects.

Importance and Design Requirements of Equipotential Connection in Lightning Protection Engineering

The role played by equipotential connection in lightning protection was summarized in terms of lightning protection,static electricity,electromagnetic shielding,protection from electric shocks,and earth fault protection.In addition,drawbacks of independent grounding and common grounding were concluded.According to standards and researches,such as Building Lightning Protection Design Standard （GB50057-2010）,further demands and rules of equipotential connection in lightning protection engineering were proposed,providing references for lightning prevention design,construction and examination by related scientific workers and staffs.

Development and Application of Lightning Protection Technologies in Power Grids of China

In recent years,along with the rapid expansion of power grids,the increasing complication of grid structures,and the development of smart grids and energy technologies,the lightning protection of power grids becomes increasingly prominent.Power grids of China have acquired significant achievements on lightning protection technologies,which are reviewed in this paper.A technical route of lightning protection is introduced in detail; it allows us to find problems through detection and measurement of lightning,to analyze problems through evaluation and simulation of lightning,to solve problems through lightning protection measures,and to prevent problems through hazard risk warning of lightning.Following the route,the technical breakthroughs of these four aspects in China are presented,including the chinese lightning detection network(CLDN),natural lightning observations,lightning faults detection at transmission lines,lightning current measurements,progresses in lightning distribution maps,lightning fault replays,lightning hazard risk evaluations,and lightning simulated experiments,as well as novel lightning protection measures.The practical devices and systems corresponding to the technologies mentioned above are also introduced and discussed.Due to the progress of lightning protection technologies in recent years,despite the rapidly growing length of transmission lines in China,the lightning accident rate is controlled at a certain level.

Research on Evaluating Index of Lightning Protection Safety Performance of High Voltage Overhead Transmission Line

In order to improve the lightning protection performance of transmission lines, lightning protection management has been divided into every tower that lightning protection performance has been evaluated respectively. According to factors such as landform, span, tower type, grounding resistance, isolator type, and so on, relative ratio of tripping operation of every tower in the line has been calculated to evaluate its lightning protection safety performance, it is beneficial to operation maintenance and lightning reconstruction of transmission lines.

Numerical simulation of protection range in exploiting the upper protective layer with a bow pseudo-incline technique

The developing processes of stress and deformation fields of a protected layer after mining an upper-protective layer with a bow pseudo-incline technique were simulated to locate the protection region. The pressure relief of the protected layer was analyzed after mining the upper-protective layer. The pressure relief angle along the strike and incline were located according to the roles of protection of the deformation and stress pressure-relief of the protective layer after mining. This results show that the upper-protective layer with the bow pseudo-incline technique have an upper and downside pressure relief angle of 85 and 68 degrees respectively; the distribution of strike pressure relief angles along the pseudo-incline working face is uneven and their values range from 38.3 to 51 degrees. The pressure relief angle of the inclined middle location was the largest. The distribution of the protection region of the upper-protective layer with the bow pseudo-incline teelmique located by practical tests and numerical simulation is essentially consistent, compared with the results obtained by these methods.

Study on Lightning Protection Design of DCS in a Nuclear Power Plant

DCS （distributed control system） plays a decisive role in the overall operation of a nuclear power plant. If DCS fails, it will seriously affect the normal production of nuclear power plant, causing great losses. So it is very important to take perfect lightning protection measures on DCS of the nuclear power plant. In this paper, according to the actual situation of DCS in a nuclear power plant, by controlling lightning point, securely booting lightning into the ground network, improving low-resistance ground network, eliminating ground loops, determining the safety space, surge protection of power and signal, a set of complete lightning protection design scheme was systematically put forward. Some specific lightning protection measures were highlighted, such as the DCS grounding, equipotential bonds and shields, and some specific considerations were put forward. All of these could offer reference in the practical application.

Numerical Simulation to Evaluate the Effects of Upward Lightning Discharges on Thunderstorm Electrical Parameters

A theoretical discussion of the discharge effects of upward lightning simulated with a fine-resolution 2D thunderstorm model is performed in this paper,and the results reveal that the estimates of the total induced charge on the upward lightning discharge channels range from 0.67 to 118.8 C,and the average value is 19.0 C,while the ratio of the induced charge on the leader channels to the total opposite-polarity charge in the discharge region ranges from 5.9%to 47.3%,with an average value of 14.7%.Moreover,the average value of the space electrostatic energy consumed by upward lightning is 1.06×10^9 J.The above values are lower than those related to intracloud lightning discharges.The density of the deposited opposite-polarity charge is comparable in magnitude to that of the preexisting charge in the discharge area,and the deposition of these opposite-polarity charges rapidly destroys the original space potential well in the discharge area and greatly reduces the space electric field strength.In addition,these opposite-polarity charges are redistributed with the development of thunderstorms.The space charge redistribution caused by lightning discharges partly accounts for the complexity of the charge structures in a thunderstorm,and the complexity gradually decreases with the charge neutralization process.

Consolidated Lightning Protection Methods of Landfill and Incineration Plants and Its Application Technology Investigation

Taking lightning-protection engineering of Wuhan Changshankou landfill and incineration plants for the example,in this article,we have discussed the integrated technology of direct lightning protection by early streamer emission lightning rod,lifting lightning rod and mobile lightning rod. Additionally,lightning protection methods and measures of landfill with large receiving area of lightning strike and landfill gas and incineration plant with irregular landfill cell are explored.

Study on Lightning Protection Technology of Large Recreation Facility

Due to its large and metallic structure, large recreation facility is easy to be struck by lightning. Meanwhile, the lightning strike conse- quences are serious, including threat to the life and property safety of tourists, great impact on society and bad effect on the development of tourism. As a result, lightning protection of recreation facility is particularly important. Taking the Ferris wheel of Zijin Park as an example, its light- ning risk and structural characteristics were analyzed to make reasonable solving scheme. Through the study about lightning risks of recreational fa- cilities with different structures and geographical positions, the lightning protection differences between recreational facilities and the general lightning protection scheme were summarized.

Study on Lightning Protection Integrated Service Management Platform in Yantai City

Via database technology, a perfect lightning protection integrated service work platform is established, thereby realizing paperless data management of routine business.

Research on Lightning Protection of Overhead Power Distribution Lines

There are two major protective methods against lightning outages on overhead distribution lines.One is a surge arrester,and the other is an overhead ground wire.The surge arresters have rather constant effect regardless of the cause of the lightning outage.On the other hand,the effect of an overhead ground wire is quite different in two major causes,the direct lightning hit and the induced overvoltage.It is sufficient to provide surge arresters with an interval of 300 m for protection against the induced overvoltage caused by the nearby lightning stroke.Use of an overhead ground wire together with surge arresters is effective for lightning protection against the direct lightning hit to a distribution line.Puncture of surge arresters is the popular outage when the outage caused by the insulation break decreases sufficiently.Also,the existence of nearby trees leads to the line break due to the side flash from a tree.Advanced lightning protection equipment with ZnO arrester components is popular in Japan.Modeling of a pole transformer and application of an electromagnetic analysis method,such as FDTD method,to surge phenomena is considerably advanced.

Matlab/Simulink Based Dynamic Simulation System for Distance Protection

To observe the inner operating process of distance protection,a Matlab/Simulink based dynamic simulation system for microprocessor-based distance protection is designed in this paper.As a modularized design,the simulation system is composed of several modules such as fault transient calculation,startup,Fourier algorithm,phase selection,impedance computing and impedance comparison etc.Some typical simulation cases,which focus on the main factors affecting distance relay's operation,have been simulated with the system.Simulation results show that the system is able to demonstrate the dynamic behaviors of distance protection under different operating conditions.

Effects of Location,Size and Number of Wind Turbine Receptors on Blade Lightning Protection

Electric and magnetic fields generated by lightning cause a serious hazard to various systems.Now wind turbine installations with higher power capacity are increasing.Higher power capacity requires higher height and so there is more probability of lightning strike.Blades are the most probable components to be struck by lightning.The most common lightning protection system for the blades consists of several metallic receptors on the blade surface.Those are connected to the ground by metallic down-conductors placed inside the blade shell.This paper studies effects of the receptor configurations on protecting the blade against lightning strike.For this purpose,an analysis procedure based on finite element method(FEM)in COMSOL Multiphysics software environment is used.The voltage distribution around the blade is simulated for various configurations of receptors.The best configuration is presented.Simulations are performed on the blade model of a special wind turbine,which isVESTAS V47".

Determination of protection range of mining upper protective layers and its numerical simulation

Aiming at the limitation of the traditional method for determination of protection region, combined with the actual situation of a mine, a new method for determination of protection region was put forward （including the protection of working face layout and development direction）, that is, gas flow observation analysis on the spot and gas content contrast method. The protection region was determined by gas flow observation analysis, gas content contrast, and computer numerical simulation combined with engineering practice. In the process of gas content test, the fixed sampling method ＂big hole drill reaming, small orifice drill rod connected with core tube＂ was employed. The results show that the determined protection region is in accordance with the actual site situation. The fixed sampling method ensures the accuracy of gas measurement of gas content.

Effectiveness of Lightning Protection Devices

In addition to the conventional Franklin Rod,many non-conventional air terminals are being used as lightning protection devices.As cited in previous works,these non-conventional devices emit space charge in the vicinity of the terminals during the process of lightning stroke.A number of factors affect the performance of these lightning protection devices,among them are geometry and dimension of the devices,location of the device above the ground,height of the cloud above the ground,and polarity of the lightning stroke.The performance of these lightning protection devices has been a topic of discussion by researchers for many years.Some studies focused on the magnitude of emission current from these devices as a criterion to evaluate their performances.The critical flashover voltage(CFO)between the devices and a metal screen simulating cloud can also be used as another criterion to evaluate the performance of the devices.Laboratory measurements were conducted in controlled conditions on different types of lightning protection devices to compare their performance.Four different types of devices were used in the present study:Franklin Rod,TerraStat models TS 100,TS 400,and Spline Ball Ionizer.The study focused on the CFO voltage of the air gap between devices and the metal screen.The CFO voltage was evaluated using standard switching and lightning impulses.The measurements were recorded for positive as well as negative polarity.The air gap between the devices and metal screen was selected at 2 m and 3 m.The results obtained provide a better understanding of the electrical performance of lightning protection devices.

Modeling of Nonlinear Elements During Lightning Overvoltage Simulations

The paper presents some problems of lightning overvoltage modeling in transmission lines with nonlinear elements.The presented results were obtained mostly for fast front transients of subsequent lightning return stroke currents.The effectiveness of numerical algorithms of nonlinear models and possibilities of their development for such transients are analyzed.Computer simulations carried out by application of EMTP show that nonlinear models of back-flashover and ZnO arresters work properly,while the implemented corona model can not be used for relatively large peak values of subsequent lightning return-stroke currents.

Simulation Studies of an Integrated Overcurrent Relay Protection Scheme for Distribution Systems

This paper presents an integrated protection technique for power distribution systems. A novel integrated protection scheme based on overcurrent protection technique for distribution system is described, in which a specially designed protection relay is installed at each substation of a network and responsible for the protection of every line sections connected to the substation busbar The conventional directional overcurrent and the new adaptive accelerated protection algorithms with multiple settings are implemented into the relay to cover all the protected line sections. The paper includes studies of a typical multi section distribution network to demonstrate the principle of the scheme. Studies show that the new scheme not only offer the new protection features for individual power line section, but also provide the characteristics of integrated protection.

Application and Research of Meteorological Data in Lightning Protection Technical Service of Oil Depot

In this paper,lightning protection technical service of oil depot is taken as research object. It is proposed using various meteorological data to carry out multiple lightning protection technical services( risk assessment,potential forecast,monitoring and early warning of lightning disasters) based on conventional detection of lightning protection system,to improve technical content of lightning protection service and benefits of disaster prevention and mitigation. It mainly analyzes the application of lightning monitoring data in pre-assessment of lightning disaster,to guide site selection of new oil depot; guidance of lightning disaster status assessment on regular inspection of lightning protection system,to determine lightning protection detection time and update and maintenance time of lightning protection system; potential prediction and early warning of lightning,to guide daily operation of oil depot.

Rural Residence Using Frame Structure from the Lightning Protection Angle

With the improvement of rural living conditions,there are more and more new houses in the countryside,but these new houses have very serious lightning hazard. In this paper,statistics situation of lightning disaster in Hebei Province is introduced firstly,and results show that total amount of lightning accident has a rising trend year by year in Hebei Province,especially in the countryside. Finally,making method for simple grounding of rural house is introduced,which could provide the reference for lightning protection of rural house in Hebei Province.