A Study on Electric Potential and Electric Field Distribution for Optimal Design of Lightning Rod Using Finite Element Method

Kyung-Hoon Jang, Sang-Won Seo and Dong-Jin Kim ()
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Kyung-Hoon Jang: Korea Conformity Laboratories, Components & Material Division Department, Seoul 08503, Republic of Korea
Sang-Won Seo: Research & Development, SUNKWANG LTI, Seoul 06230, Republic of Korea
Dong-Jin Kim: Research & Development, SUNKWANG LTI, Seoul 06230, Republic of Korea

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: In this paper, we present an electric field analysis for the optimal structural design of lightning rods for high performance with a charge transfer system (CTS). In the case of a conventional rod that is produced with an empirical design and structure without quantitative data because the design is structurally very simple, only the materials and radius of curvature of the lightning rod to concentrate the electric field at the tip part of the rod are considered. Recently, the development of new types of lightning rods, such as early streamer emission (ESE) and charge transfer system (CTS), has been introduced through simulation analysis and experiments, but detailed specifications and information about the optimal design and structure have not been fully reported. In this paper, we performed an electric field analysis of the structures and materials for the optimal structural design of lightning rods with a function of CTS through computer software analysis with consideration for the radius of curvature, the size of corona ring, and optimal position (X-axis and Y-axis) of the floating electrode. For optimal structural design of lightning rods based on electric field analysis, we used a source of lightning voltage with 1.2/50 µs based on a double exponential equation. The results revealed that the electric field on the relaxation part decreases as the radius of curvature and corona ring increases. For the radius of curvature, the electric field first decreases and then increases with increasing radius of curvature and reaches a minimum at 7 mm and a maximum above 8 mm. For the case of the corona ring, the electric field decreases with increasing corona ring, and the optimal size of the corona ring was selected as 4 mm; the size of the 4 mm corona ring uniformly formed the electric field both at the tip part of the ground current collector and the corona ring. For the electric field concentration part, we found that the optimal X-axis position of the floating electrode and the Y-axis position between the ionizer conductor and floating electrode are 7 mm and 0.1 mm, respectively. These simulation results in this paper are expected to provide useful information for the design of optimized CTS-type lightning rods.

Keywords: lightning rod protection; charge transfer system (CTS); electric field analysis; numerical analysis; optimal design; finite element method; corona discharge; air insulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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