Lightning Protection Products

Lightning is one of these natural events that catch people’s imagination. In real world they can be linked to a disruptive electric discharge due to the dielectric breakdown of the air between the clouds or between the clouds and the ground.

The use of lightning protection systems are the most effective method of reducing the risk of fire, explosions and damage to infrastructure due to lightning.

Petrochemical, refinery and storage facilities are some of the largest and most sophisticated industrial structures that need protection from lightning. Lightning also significantly affects all outdoor activities and can pose a serious risk for people in the open area. People who are directly struck by lightning, or stand next to lightning current-carrying objects or who, as a result of a flashover may even be carrying partial lightning current themselves, could sustain serious injuries which can even result in death.

LEC's systems and solutions are industry-leading in the prevention of potentially dangerous levels of lightning in the offshore sector, an industry that heavily relies on the handling of hazardous and combustible materials.

Legacy lightning protection systems involved sticking a metal rod into the ground. LEC's product line provides advanced technology through the use of charge dissipation technology.

This technology uses point discharge theory to facilitate the reduction of static electrical charge buildup. It accomplishes this by ionizing surrounding air to neutralize accumulated charges on the earth’s surface, thus ground charges that develop streamers no longer have sufficient electrical energy supporting them to initiate the strike process; thereby greatly reducing the risk of a lightning strike within the protected area.

Benefits of our patented lightning protection system (DAS)

• Provides enhanced performance over traditional lightning protection

• Patented technology

• High-grade stainless steel construction

• Lightweight and easy to install

• Corrosion-resistant

• Low wind loading

• Large selection of mounting hardware

• Independently tested

• Meets or exceeds UL 96A, NFPA 780, and IEC 62305 standards

Once lightning protection systems are installed, regular maintenance and periodic safety checks are required to ensure it continues to work at its optimum level.

To ensure your oil, gas, and mining facility is fully protected from a lightning event, contact our experts at LEC.

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Water is a fundamental utility. Its increased consumption is the reflection of population growth and an improved standard of living. A more efficient use of drinking water is growing in significance, especially against the backdrop of increasingly scarce drinking water resources. Therefore, waste water treatment plants are a key element of the drinking water cycle.

Due to vast surface areas and exposure of frequently isolated sites, water and wastewater treatment plants are particularly exposed to lightning risks. Lightning protection for water treatment plants involves protecting wellheads, pumping stations, and processing plants, which are highly susceptible to lightning strikes and damage. When any one of these units is affected by direct or indirect lightning strikes, and the resultant damage from surging electricity, you are looking at anywhere from hours to days’ worth of loss of service.

Furthermore, the consequences of a strike can be serious ranging from costs of re-establishing the availability of the treatment plant to the unknown cost for eliminating ground water contamination. Consequently, lightning protection systems must be installed to efficiently eliminate this threat and to increase the availability of the plant.

A well thought out lightning protection system is a critical step for the purposes of safety, protection of property, insurance costs, and down time.

A lightning protection system consists of external protection, and internal lightning protection. External lightning protection minimizes fire risk by lightning strike and the realization of the Lightning Protection Zones Concept helps to optimize the availability of the installation to a maximum level.

To ensure maximum technical and economic protection, the area of protection is sub divided into lightning protection zones (LPZ). Subsequently a risk analysis is carried out for each LPZ and the relevant types of damage. The mutual dependence of the LPZ’s are then examined and the required protection measure are defined to reach the necessary protection goal.

Our lightning protection solution aims to:

• Protect your facility, equipment, assets, and personnel
• Provide a safe working environment
• Provide effective interlocking defence thereby reducing vulnerability of interdependent critical infrastructure
• Reduce the risk of downtime

LEC installs the lightning protection systems in a neat and aesthetic manner while maintaining the national and international code requirements. We further provide a ‘no strike’ warranty on our installations and system.

Contact us to find out more about how we can work with you.

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Lightning strikes are characterized by very high stroke currents arriving in a very brief amount of time. This current flow across the surface of the earth in all directions until the cells between the thundercloud and earth, are neutralized.

An average lightning strike delivers about 30000 amps of electricity to the ground within a few milliseconds.

Being at the forefront of both the basic science and product development, we are uniquely qualified to address the problems inherent in lightning protection. Whether it is the petrochemical industry or the telecommunication industry, our methods use similar technology; a combination of a Dissipation Array system comprising of down conductors and grounding terminals along with surge protection devices.

While the priorities of each lightning protection project differ from industry to industry, some common features in every project are:

- Dissipation array system using our charge transfer technology. Our innovative and patented product lowers the risk of a direct lightning strike by delaying the formation of upward streamers. In other words, lowering the chances of lightning to strike the protected area.

As per the demands of your company, we can suggest the Spline ball Ionizer or the Spline ball terminal or the DAS, and they all work with the same technology.

- Surge protection devices to protect the electrical devices and valuable electronic equipment from the damaging effects of spikes and surges by disrupting them in the source voltage before they reach the devices plugged into them.

Facility guard, Transient limiters, DC Surge protectors, Data line protectors, Coaxial line protectors are some of our manufactured SPDs protecting from the hazards of transient and fault currents.

- A risk assessment is needed to determine the type of lightning protection system needed by the facility. It takes into account parameters associated with the structure and its surroundings, the lightning flash density of the location and the industry.

- Maintenance and inspection of the existing lightning protection systems is recommended to continue the designed safety for the structure as an ongoing process. It is also fundamental in ensuring compliance with industry safety standards

Lightning Eliminators & Consultants Inc.https://masonlamb.tumblr.com/post/177228453225/the-importance-of-grounding-rod-protection-system" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">, serves a wide range of customers including oil, gas, chemical and other industrial facilities. We have established ourselves as a global leader. Contact us to get your property protected.

While a lightning strike on its own is bad enough, when that strike ignites a fire, it opens doors to a host of issues. As these disasters aren't planned and they are unexpected, a prudent business creates a disaster recovery plan which is frequently tested and regularly maintained.

A still better approach to averting such disasters altogether is by installing a lightning protection system.

Our lightning protection products can safeguard various industries including but not limited to refineries, offshore platforms, and rigs, pipelines, terminals and tank farms.

Let us take a closer look at our patented products according to their usage:

LIGHTNING PREVENTION

Dissipation Array System – Based on the charge transfer technology, this patented product prevents downtime, loss of assets while increasing the level of lightning safety.

Spline Ball Ionizer – A supplement to our patented Dissipation Array installation, our patented SBI is the first line of defense for structures that require lightweight protection with a low wind profile.

Spline Ball Terminal – a superb alternative to standard air terminals; it is engineered to reduce the risk of direct strikes while performing as a highly efficient air terminal.

Streamer Delaying Air Terminal – another alternative to standard air terminals; it is designed to delay upward streamer generation and reduce the risk of lightning damage.

STORAGE TANK PROTECTION

Retractable Grounding Assembly – floating roof tanks are most susceptible to fire from lightning strikes. Our award-winning RGA creates a low impedance bond between the roof and shell giving you a cost-effective, easy to install and virtually maintenance free system.

In-tank Potential Equalizer – As the name suggests, our IPE combats the problem of internal electrical discharges within non-metal and lined tanks.

GROUNDING / EARTHING

Smart Ground Testing Service – It’s an advanced ground audit system producing highly accurate results even on the energized ground. Our smart ground offers practical recommendations to improve the earthling system as well.

ChemRod – it requires less real estate and fewer electrodes to meet specified resistance. Each Chem Rod creates an optimal electrical connection to earth with a large conductive surface.

LECWELD – this is an easy and efficient field welding system, wherein the process forms a solid copper molecule bond that does not loosen or corrode throughout the life of the host structure.

Grounding Augmentation fill – GAF is a special formula to create a low resistance earth interface, making it easier and less expensive to prevent a lightning strike.

The primary purpose of our products is to reduce the accumulation of electrical charges thereby prevent the electrical current flow into the building which could cause considerable damage.

Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. has the experience and expertise to manufacture, engineer, install, and maintain systems that integrate lightning protection, grounding, and power quality products into existing infrastructure.

A traditional lightning protection system consists of a lightning rod and a network of down conductors and earthing electrodes that provide initial protection to a building. When appropriately designed and installed this system carries a lightning strike safely to the ground, avoiding damage to property and life. However, it is not practical to let charged electromagnetic current near sensitive electronic devices.

At Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc., we recognized the need to design a more practical and efficient system. Through our skills and experience in this field, lightning protection system under the Charge Transfer Technology is widely recognized as the best and most advanced protection from a lightning strike. 

The Charge Transfer Technology used in Dissipation Array System prevents the termination of lightning within the desired area of protection. This reduces operating cost and downtime as it safeguards against lightning damages fire and electrocution.

How we work

We offer a comprehensive set of services from the first inspection to the final installation. Our experts perform an extensive on-site survey and assess the requirements. Based on this survey our engineers design an all-inclusive protection system in accordance with subjective needs. The design of the system is a critical part of any installation and identifies all that is required to meet the set
international standards and specifications. While the concept behind lightning protection system is relatively straightforward, the requirements for proper installation can be complex. 

Our industry trained professional installers complete the installation process within the time stipulated and to the highest and safest standards. Follow-up testing is carried out at regular intervals and involves a visual survey of the entire system. Electrical resistance testing is also carried out as a part of the service.

Surge suppressors are another very important part of a lightning protection solution. It adds another layer of protection to sensitive electronics from the surge of transient voltage.

We are a US manufacturer providing a full range of lightning protection systems designed to the highest standards using state of art technology and machinery.

 

 

Being a leader in the field of effective lightning protection systems, Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. has spent many years developing and testing superior lightning protection products. Due to our efforts, we have many patented lightning protection products. Most notably is our designed Dissipation Array System which is engineered to prevent a lightning strike.

Dissipation Array System (DAS)

“DAS uses a naturally occurring scientific phenomenon called point discharge to retard the collection of lightning within a finite protection zone.”

It works on the principles of Charge Transfer Systems. These lightning protection products lower the static field long enough for the lightning to terminate or strike outside the protected area.

DAS does not attract lightning it eliminates it.

There are three typical reasons for our clients to choose DAS as their choice of lightning protection:

1.       Operations of every facility are too critical and sensitive to let a high voltage lightning strike to be collected and then grounded. This is especially risky in a physically explosive environment and places where downtime will be very costly.

2.       Industries that will experience extended restart period due to initial downtime or repairs; system checks, processes that cannot be reset and disposals and waste that cannot be reused are areas where choosing our DAS system is the best approach.

3.       Another critical area where this patented lightning protection product is the best choice – personnel safety. Any industry where an area must be occupied by personnel even during a storm activity, such as for surveillance or security reasons.

Additionally, there are other patented lightning protection products that combine (depending on the need and the area to be protected) to provide full protection against lightning.

-          Dissipation Array System (DAS)

-          Chemical Grounding Rods (CHEM-ROD)

-          Retractable Grounding Assembly (RGA)

-          Spline Ball Ionizer (SBI)

-          Spline Ball Terminal (SBT)

-          In-tank Potential Equalizer (IPE)

We understand that an industrial facility’s lightning protection design has to be unique, with immense capabilities to protect your entire facility from damage. Rest assured our lightning protection products incorporate physics and state-of-the-art engineering principles to provide successful and cost-effective protection.

Contact our team and get protected today!

Industrial lightning protection for businesses is vital to their success.

A direct lightning strike can damage structures, critical equipment and also the occupants as it can induce fast transient overvoltages into the power system. At Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. we offer superior lightning protection system to suit all types of commercial and industrial buildings. Our lightning protection and surge protection solutions are based purely on solid, well-grounded science. We endeavor to supply turnkey solutions, which are both technically and economically effective.

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We boast of a very efficient workforce. Our personnel is responsible for installing all types of lightning protection and surge protection systems. We have all resources, materials, and the latest plant, machinery, and vehicle to work on any size project – large scale to a remote mountaintop. Our work progress and quality of workmanship are monitored regularly through various control and testing systems.

Further, every installation is done with minimum disruptions to your services. All our manufactured and patented lightning protection and surge protection products comply with the appropriate national and international standards. We also extend a ‘no strike’ warranty with all our installation and services.

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Our brand is based on some very basic principles and as such our aim is simple too:

- Don’t attract lightning, eliminate it

- If some secondary currents to pass through a protected structure, to ground them safely to earth, thereby reducing the risk of side flashes

- To protect equipment from surge and transient on power lines, signals and data lines.

- Provide excellent pre-sales and after-sales services

- Mitigate loss or damage to all expensive and important business electrical and electronics

- Minimize financial loss and downtime

Our expertise in this field is well known, and we work heavily in this area to improve our offering and to service our customer base. With the wealth of experience of over 4 decades, we are now well placed to advise an appropriate and cost-effective solution to meet your specific lightning protection needs.

Every industry is constantly at risk of being adversely affected or damaged by overvoltage. One of the greatest threats is a bolt of lightning. A single discharge of lightning near a power supply cable will generate significant overvoltage transient, sometimes causing irreparable damage. 

Protective devices such as lightning surge protection devices are used to offset these external influences. They have the job of safeguarding the connected systems without interfering with its operations.

How does a lightning surge protector work?

Once voltage rises above expected level, the surge protector comes into play. It suppresses the excess voltage, diverts it safely to the ground and prevents it from causing any harm. When used together with air terminals, grounding rods, these surge arrestors form an industry's total lightning protection system.

Why do we need lightning surge protection device?

This decision can be taken by answering simple questions like

-          Whether your facility is adjacent to any tall structure or near a hilltop or located in the lightning-prone area?

-          If your existing lightning protection system includes surge arrestors?

-          Does the machinery or equipment require resistance to overvoltage?

-          Are surges internally generated by the facility itself, such as a large motor starting or welding operations?

However, the need for lightning surge protection devices depends on numerous factors. Our range of surge protection devices are designed and developed with the aspect of lightning protection and should not be considered as an option. Each product is developed by a team of experienced engineers with the aim to solve specific problems faced by industries.

Every business has different needs when it comes to keeping their systems running. An industry might require surge protection on their fire alarms while another might consider installing it on security systems and data centers.

Different types and combinations of lightning surge protection device are installed in different protected zones to meet different needs. Some arrestors are generally installed in the service entrance switchboards to protect low voltage equipment such as facility guard and data line protectors.

Installing a lightning surge protection device from Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. ensures security of your company data, employees and facility during an unpredictable electric surge, as well as ensures continued function of critical systems.