Research progress and application prospects analysis of active lightning protection technology
LI Guoqiang1, CHEN Keji1, BIAN Rong1, CHEN Sile2, CHEN Zhaoquan2
1. State Grid Zhejiang Economic and Technological Research Institute, Hangzhou 310000; 2. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, Anhui 243032
Abstract：The traditional passive lightning protection technology mainly considers reducing the damage to the protected object after lightning occurs, which is increasingly difficult to meet modern lightning protection requirements. It is urgent to develop more proactive lightning protection technologies, directly regulating the generation and characteristics of lightning before providing protection. This paper briefly describes the development history of lightning physics and lightning protection technologies, with a focus on the research status of three active lightning protection technologies: new type air termination system, rocket-triggered lightning, and laser-triggered lightning. It also introduces other active lightning protection technologies represented by unmanned aerial vehicle lightning protection, compares the advantages and disadvantages of several active lightning protection technologies, analyzes the problems existing in current active lightning protection technologies, and looks forward to the future development trend of active lightning protection technologies.
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