Evaluation of Lightning Backflashover Rate of a Fully Composite Pylon using Monte Carlo Method on Environmental Factors

Hanchi Zhang, Mohammad Ghomi, Kai Yin, Qian Wang, Filipe Miguel Faria da Silva, Claus Leth Bak

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Abstract

Design of a 400 kV fully composite pylon with external down-leads to bring grounding potential to earth wires has been proposed to meet the requirements of saving lines corridors and reducing visual impact. The backflashover performance of the pylon is investigated by EMT and the Monte Carlo method is employed on lightning current waveform parameters and soil resistivity. The backflashover rates of the pylon are estimated for different soil conditions and ground flash density in a broad variation. A case study in Denmark is exampled and compared with the backflashover rate of a conventional transmission tower. Because of the non-linearity of the relationship between backflashover probability and the value of soil resistivity, selecting constant soil resistivity for transmission tower footing model in high-resistivity region may overestimate the BFR.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
Number of pages5
PublisherIEEE
Publication date2022
Article number9917083
ISBN (Print)978-1-6654-0824-0
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-0823-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) - Denver, CO, USA
Duration: 17 Jul 202221 Jul 2022

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
LocationDenver, CO, USA
Period17/07/202221/07/2022
SeriesIEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
ISSN1944-9925

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