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Estimation of the lightning performance of transmission lines with focus on mitigation of flashovers

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2018-08
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Koehler, Fabian Matthias
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The growth of transmission networks into remote areas due to renewable generation features new challenges with regard to the lightning protection of transmission systems. Up to now, standard transmission line designs kept outages resulting from lightning strokes to reasonable limits with minor impacts on the power grid stability. However, due to emerging problematic earthing conditions at towers, topographically exposed transmission towers and varying lightning activity, such as encountered at the 400 kV Beauly-Denny transmission line in Scotland, the assessment of the lightning performance of transmission lines in operation and in planning emerges as an important aspect in system planning and operations. Therefore, a fresh approach is taken to the assessment of the lightning performance of transmission lines in planning and construction, as well as possible lightning performance improvements in more detail, based on the current UK/Scottish and Southern Energy 400 kV tower design and overhead line arrangements. The approach employs electromagnetic transient simulations where a novel mathematical description for positive, negative and negative subsequent lightning strokes, which are all scalable with stroke current, is applied. Furtermore, a novel tower foot earthing system model which combines soil ionisation and soil frequency-dependent effect is used. Novel lightning stroke distribution data for Scotland as well as novel cap-and-pin insulators with arcing horn flashover data derived from laboratory experiments are applied. For overhead lines, transmission towers, and flashover mitigation methods describing their physical behaviour in lightning stroke conditions state-of-the-art models are utilised. The investigation features a variety of tower and overhead line arrangements, soil conditions and earthing designs, as well as the evaluation of various measures to improve the performance. Results show that the lightning performance of a transmission line is less dependent on the tower earthing conditions, but more dependent on the degree of lightning activity and stroke amplitude distribution. The assessment of flashover mitigation methods shows that cost-effective and maintenance free solutions, such as underbuilt wires can effectively replace a costly improvement of the tower earthing system. However, in locations where challenging earthing conditions prevail, tower line arresters or counterpoise are the only options to maintain an effective lightning protection.
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