Abstract
The aim of the paper is to analyze the basic principles of design the protection zone of a complex system of airtermination rods according to the rolling sphere method, which, at the moment, is the main in the field of lightning protection and meets the requirements of modern European standards. The problem of determining the minimum number of air-termination rods required to calculate the surface of the protection zone of any complexity, with their arbitrary height and location, is solved. Through the use of the stereometry laws of, for the first time in Ukraine, a mathematical model was developed to build such a protection zone. The operation of this model was tested on the example of an electrical substation with a voltage of 110 kV using a test computer program with a real arrangement of air-termination rods with different heights. The result of this program is a three-dimensional display of the protection zone with the possibility of visual analysis of the protection of objects from direct lightning strike with a given probability. The value of the work lies in the possibility of practical implementation of the rolling sphere method to protect power facilities of Ukraine from direct lightning strikes in accordance with the modern standard EN 62305. References 12, figures 5.
References
State standard of Ukraine B V.2.5-38:2008 Engineering equipment of buildings and structures. Light-ning protection of buildings and structures (IEC 62305:2006, NEQ). Kyiv: DNDPVTI Enerhoperspektyva, 2008. 54 p. (Ukr)
State standard of Ukraine EN 62305:2012 Protection against lightning. (IEC 62305: 2011, IDT). Kyiv: State Standard of Ukraine, 2012. 419 p. (Ukr)
Baranov M.I., Koliushko G.M., Kravchenko V.I., Rudakov S.V. A generator of aperiodic current pulses of artificial lightning with a rationed temporal form of 10 μs/350 μs with an amplitude of ±(100–200) kA. Instru-ments and Experimental Techniques. 2015. Vol. 58. No 6. Pp. 745-750.
Guidelines for Installation of Lightning Protection Systems for Buildings and Structures (RD 34.21.122–87). Moskva: Energoatomizdat, 1989. 56 p. (Rus)
Bazelyan E.M. Rationing of lightning protection in Russia. The main problems and ways to improve. III Russian conference on lightning protection. St.-Peterburg, 2012. Pp. 372-382. (Rus)
Komarov V.I. To the question of designing an external lightning protection system by the rolling sphere method. Naukovyi ogliad. 2014. No 3(4). Pp. 100-105. (Ukr)
Dung L.V., Petcharaks K. Lightning protection systems design for substations by using masts and Matlab. International Journal of Mathematical, Computational, Physical, Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2010. Vol. 4. No 5. Pp. 562-566.
Berger G. Recent considerations on a 3D electrogeometric model and its applications to the PIC DU MIDI. V international conference on lightning protection. St.-Peterburg, May, 2016. Pp. 21-26.
Petcharaks N. Lightning protection zone in substation using mast. KKU Engineering Journal. 2013. No 40(1). Pp. 11-20.
Rezinkina M.M. Technique for predicting the number of lightning strokes to extended objects. Technical Physics. 2008. Vol. 53. No 5. Pp. 533-539.
Istomin O.Ye., Koliushko D.G., Kiprych S.V., Rudenko S.S. Construction problems of volume pro-tected by air-termination rod for the Ukrainian nuclear power plant under standard EN 62305. Problems of Atom-ic Science and Technology. 2019. No 5(123). Pp. 100-104.
Vygodskiy M.Y. Elementary mathematics reference book. Moskva: AST: Astrel, 2006. 509 p. (Rus)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2020 Tekhnichna Elektrodynamika

