An Integrated Lightning Risk Assessment of Outdoor Air-Insulated HV Substations

Siow Chun Lim (), Ong Chang Shen and Ngu Eng Eng
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Siow Chun Lim: Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya 63100, Malaysia
Ong Chang Shen: Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya 63100, Malaysia
Ngu Eng Eng: Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya 63100, Malaysia

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-16

Abstract: Although various lightning protection methods have been used in the industry, many outdoor high-voltage (HV) substations are still experiencing high failure rates due to lightning strikes. The applications of these rule-of-thumb-based methods generally lack coherence among the practitioners. IEC 62305-2 provides a systematic way for practitioners to assess the lightning risk for buildings or structures in a probabilistic way. However, this standard has not explicitly covered the application of HV substations. Moreover, IEC 62305-2 involves a tedious set of risk factors which may hinder many practitioners from applying the aforementioned standards while other preferred rule-of-thumb methods are available. As IEC 62305-2 does not specify the applicability to lightning risk assessment in HV substations, this paper proposes a novel approach to complement the standard-based risk assessment process. During this integrated risk assessment process, significant risks are identified, followed by ambiguous risks that will be adjusted in subsequent phases. The significant ambiguous risk factors such as fire load function ( rf ), environmental factor ( CE ), LPL class, and other governing factors have been analyzed and discussed. By adjusting these significant risk factors, the practitioners will understand the adjusted risk factors in relation to the practical implementation of lightning protection system (LPS). Therefore, integrating the substation characteristics, assumptions, and findings of ambiguous risk factors can result in a successful integrated lightning risk assessment process.

Keywords: lightning risk assessment; high-voltage substation; integrated process; risk factors; IEC 62305-2; striking distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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