On the behavior of lightning current and charge density in the case of tall tower

Author

Rahim, N.A. ; Izadi, Maziar ; AbKadir, M.Z.A. ; Gomes, Chandima ; Hasni, J. ; Rameli, N.

Author_Institution

Centre for Electromagn. & Lightning Protection Res. (CELP), Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

11-18 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1331

Lastpage

1335

Abstract

Considering on the behavior of charge density in the case of strikes of lightning to tall tower is an important issue and it can be applied in the electrical protection of equipment (on the tower) and also lightning electromagnetic fields due to tower and channel. In this paper, the behaviors of charge density under the different tower and channel conditions were considered and the results were discussed accordingly. The results showed that the tower height and tower reflection factor are strongly effective on the values of charge density due to additional reflected currents along towering a channel, however other parameters of the tower and channel can be effective on the values of charge density that were studied in this paper.

Keywords

lightning protection; poles and towers; charge density; equipment electrical protection; lightning current behavior; lightning electromagnetic fields; lightning strikes; tall tower; tower height; tower reflection factor; Buildings; Poles and towers; Teleworking; Lightning; charge density; return stroke current;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lightning Protection (ICLP), 2014 International Conference o

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICLP.2014.6973336

Filename

6973336