Characteristics of Two Ground Grid Potentials After a Triggered Lightning Stroke

Abstract

It has been determined that the discharge of lightning current to ground through grounding grid results in high potential at the grounding grid and other nearby grounding grids, which is very destructive. In the present paper, based on artificially triggered lightning technology, the characteristics of the ground potential rise (GPR), the transient effect at the active grid under the transient impulse of lightning current was analyzed. The impulse grounding resistance is found to decrease for large input currents. On the other hand, for small input currents, it usually increases. In addition, the characteristics of the transfer potential of the passive grid which is located 40 m from the active grid were analyzed. It was shown that the peak value of the transfer potential at the passive grid was approximately 5.1% of the peak value of the ground potential at the active grid during the return stroke. The achievements made in this study may contribute toward the optimization of the simulation model.

Keywords

• Artificially triggered lightning
• lightning current
• grounding grid
• ground potential rise (GPR)
• impulse grounding resistance
• transfer potential