"Avaliação de correntes de descargas atmosféricas através de medições diretas em estruturas altas" / Lightning current discharge evaluation through direct measure in tall towers

AUTOR(ES)

Miltom Shigihara

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The characteristics of lightning currents have a fundamental importance on insulation coordination and on the design of transmission and distribution lines equipment. The CIGRE cumulative frequency distribution curves relative to the main parameters of the first and subsequent downward flashes, which are very frequently used for the evaluation of the lightning performance of transmission and distribution lines, refers to data obtained from negative current measurements from tall instrumented structures. However, currents measured on elevated objects may present distortions associated with differences on the impedances of the lightning channel, the strike object and the grounding system. In other words, the current in such objects may, in some circumstances, depend significantly on the measuring point and differ substantially from the current that flows along the lightning channel. These currents are called "contaminated". The curves regarding current magnitudes, front times and rates of rise presented in CIGRE refer to these "contaminated" currents, since the reflections that occur at the base and at the top of elevated strike objects were not taken into account in the processing of the data that led to those curves. The data should, thus, be reviewed. On the other hand, the term “decontaminated” current stands for the current that flows through the lightning channel assuming reflection coefficients at the bottom and at the top of the strike object equal to zero, i.e., the same impedances for the lightning channel, the elevated object and the grounding system. In this work a computer code was developed and several aspects related to the "contamination" and "decontamination" processes are discussed, with emphasis upon the influences of the various parameters of the system "lightning channel - strike object - grounding" on the stroke current. A discussion of the characteristics of a stroke current measured at the bottom of a 62,5 m high mast located at the Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia da Universidade de São Paulo is also presented.

ASSUNTO(S)

descargas atmosféricas return stroke models modelos de descargas de retorno “contaminated” current estruturas elevadas elevated objects corrente "contaminada" lightning

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