• DocumentCode
    3135254
  • Title

    Lightning Exposure of Wind Turbines

  • Author

    Dolan, Dale ; Sao, Charles ; Lehn, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Toronto Univ., Ont.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    38838
  • Firstpage
    486
  • Lastpage
    489
  • Abstract
    This paper applies the electrogeometric model of lightning exposure to a wind turbine to compute its risk of damage due to a direct lightning strike in an area of known lightning flash density. For a typical 45 m wind turbine, the probability of being struck by a downward negative flash, as predicted by the model, agrees with the observed lightning strike data for wind turbines of comparable size in Denmark. Moreover, statistical distribution of the stroke current, which is useful in turbine design, can be derived from the model
  • Keywords
    lightning; statistical distributions; wind turbines; direct lightning exposure; direct lightning strike; electrogeometric model; lightning flash density; statistical distribution; wind turbine design; Blades; Electronic mail; Lead; Lightning; Predictive models; Probability; Protection; Statistical distributions; Transmission lines; Wind turbines; Lightning exposure; bearing protection; electrogeometric model; lightning damage; wind turbine;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. CCECE '06. Canadian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ottawa, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0038-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0038-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCECE.2006.277548
  • Filename
    4054605
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3135254