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Lightning Protection System for Buildings

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 410-2036/01
Abbreviation SOBB
Course title Lightning Protection System for Buildings
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Petr Orság, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. External influences, standards and related legislation, determination of spaces according to the influence of external influences, connection to design and electrical inspections. Normal and abnormal external influences acting on an electrical installation or electrical equipment (EZ), including their evaluation.
2. Structure and content of the protocol for the determination of external influences, operating rules, requirements of TIČR and SÚIP. Relation of the protocol to electrical equipment inspections. Composition of the committee for the preparation of the protocol for the determination of external influences, requirements. Methods of recording external influences in the protocols, responsibility.
3. Design of electrical distribution or electrical equipment with regard to the determined external influences. Requirements for electrical wiring in accordance with the provisions of the Decree on technical requirements for buildings. Issues in the design of electrical installations, EZ in terms of products used by the layman. Classes and codes of external influences, tables.
4. Lightning protection, standards and related legislation, link to the stages of project documentation.
5. Lightning and its effects, atmospheric phenomena, lightning parameters, direct and indirect lightning strikes, induced surges.
6. Design, installation, inspection and maintenance of lightning protection systems according to applicable standards, identification and analysis of risks, classification of buildings according to protection class.
7. Design of external lightning protection system, types of lightning arresters, methods of design of arresting system, arresters, shielding.
8. Design and implementation of protective measures to prevent injury to persons or animals by touch or step voltage according to the standard, earthing and earthing.
9. Design of the internal lightning protection system, lightning protection zones, bonding, electrical insulation, surge protection, principles, operation and verification of surge protectors, surge arrestor ratings and sizing.
10. Software tools for comprehensive design and sizing of lightning protection.
11. Selection, placement, arrangement and coordination of surge protectors, protection of electrical and electronic systems against overvoltage and electromagnetic interference.
12. Protection of inverters and PV plants against lightning.
13. Protection of bus systems and IT networks.

Exercise:
1. Determining space by external influences.
2. Establishing the operating rules of the school laboratory.
3. Assignment and solution of the 1st semester project.
4. Stages of project documentation related to lightning protection.
5. Calculation of the electrodynamic force for a direct lightning strike to a building with external lightning protection and induced surges.
6. Calculation of the risk to the object (house) due to lightning strike.
7. Design and calculation of an external lightning protection system for a given type of roof of a building (house) by the rolling ball/protective angle method.
8. Design and calculation of the ground system of the given object (family house).
9. Design and calculation of the internal lightning protection system for a given object (family house) for direct and indirect lightning strikes.
10. Assignment and solution of the 2nd semester project.
11. Design of lightning protection for a given object using a software tool.
12. Experimental measurements of earth resistance, lightning conductor earth resistance and surge protectors.
13. Credit test.

E-learning

Study supports are available in the LMS to students of the course.

Literature

[1] DEHN. Lightning Protection Guide [pdf]. 3rd updated edition. DEHN + SÖHNE, 2014. Available from: https://www.dehn-ua.com/en/lightning-protection-guide

Advised literature

[1] DEHN. Lightning Protection Guide [pdf]. 3rd updated edition. DEHN + SÖHNE, 2014. Available from: https://www.dehn-ua.com/en/lightning-protection-guide
[2] HOOLE, Paul a Samuel HOOLE. Lightning Engineering: Physics, Computer-based Test-bed, Protection of Ground and Airborne Systems. Springer, 2022. ISBN 978-3-030-94727-9 .
[3] HORVÁTH, Tibor. Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection: A Multimedia Teaching Guide. Wiley, 2006. ISBN 978-0-470-03018-9 .