Investigation of effect of transmission line arresters verified by lightning surges at substations.

In recent years, transmission line arresters have been installed to protect overhead power transmission lines from backflashovers caused by lightning. In addition, it has been expected that substation lightning surges incoming via transmission lines can be suppressed by them. However, the suppression effect by those with series gaps has not been investigated sufficiently. The author has measured lightning surges at two 77-kV substations from 1990 to 1993. As the transmission line arresters have been mounted on the towers since 1992, the lightning surges due to the sparkover of the series gap of the transmission line arresters can be observed at the substations. In this paper, the lightning surge waveforms due to such sparkover have been analyzed in detail. Next, an accurate EMTP simulation method considering the induced lightning surge voltages has been proposed. Finally, their suppression effect has been investigated by simulation corresponding to each mounting method. © 1999 Scripta Technica, Electr Eng Jpn, 126(4): 30–39, 1999 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]