Lightning Protection Products

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.

In our fast-paced environment, we depend on wireless and satellite communications for everything – cell phones, internet, radio, television, and data and more; reliability has become imperative. These towers are constructed of steel and designed to be the highest structure in the surrounding area in order to supply communications without any interruptions.

Sadly, telecommunication towers are particularly at risk of lightning damage and an ensured electrical surge; due to its tall stature and complex electrical makeup. A single direct lightning strike can cause physical damage and catastrophic failure resulting in substantial revenue losses.

When lightning strikes a tower the current flows downwards to the ground and can damage electronic equipment like antennae, dishes, cameras, etc. On its way down, these currents can leak and jump into nearby structures resulting in permanent damage to sensitive electronic devices and equipment.

The good news is there is a way to protect telecommunication towers and facilities from the devastating and lasting effects of lightning damage.

The lightning protection system from Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. – The Tower Kit

It’s a hybrid package that offers a robust and cost-effective solution for communication tower to protect them from lightning damage. The protection package includes direct strike protection, surge protection, and grounding.

And we protect the towers from lightning damage by enhancing lightning rods with lightning dissipators!

Spline Ball Ionizer – this is our patented and advanced air terminal that functions as a streamer retarding air terminal. It utilizes the phenomena ‘charge transfer’ – it provides a low resistance route for the static ground charge to reach the atmosphere, preventing the build-up of ground charge to the value necessary to trigger a strike on the protected structure. In short, it exchanges ions between the air and earth keeping the local electrical field below lightning potential.

Chem Rods – another patented marvel from us; it creates the optimal earth connection with a large conductive surface, electrolytic salts, and specially formulated backfills.

Transient limiter TLX100 – this versatile type 1 SPD is primarily used for light load service entrance and subpanels.  It can be installed upstream or downstream of the main disconnect.

LEC offers lightning protection products and services to many industries including broadcasting, wireless communications, data centers, 911 call centers, and many more.

This simple, reliable and inexpensive (compared to the cost of repair) method can protect most wireline communications from lightning damage.

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.

A Lightning protection system is designed to protect a structure from damage due to a lightning strike. Lightning Eliminators and Consultant Inc, has been installing the best protection systems for every industry for over 40 years.

For over two centuries, lightning rod served as the primary means of protecting lives, electronic component and various other industrial assets. In this outdated lightning protection system, lighting rod is engineered to protect the structure in event of a lightning strike – the lighting will strike the rod and the conductor cables will carry the lightning current from the lightning rod to the ground through wires instead of passing through the structure. The heavy and long rods buried in the ground provide a safe path for lightning discharge.

Do you know with technology advancements in the lightning protection industry, lightning phenomena  can now be prevented?

LEC’s Charge Transfer System works by reducing the static charge, which builds upon the protected area without the use of a lightning rod. As the lightning downward leader is formed, it looks for opposite polarity to equalize itself. Our device interrupts the formation of these polarities thus eliminating the strike completely. The ionizer offers a medium for point discharge to occur, while the down conductors provide the electrical connection between the charge collector and ionizer. Interconnecting ground electrodes and conductors, the ‘charge collector’ collects and channels the electrical charge to the ionizer.

Traditionally, a lightning protection system includes lightning rods or air terminals, conductor cables, ground electrodes, utility bonding clamps and surge protection. Whereas our charge transfer system consists of one or more ionizers, down conductors, charge collectors.

LEC has a range of patented technologies that are designed to avoid a lightning strike from occurring as opposed to a lightning rod which attracts and then grounds the strike to earth.

The confidence in our products has prompted us to extend a full ‘no strike’ warranty to each and every client. We aim to deliver a wide range of patented products, services, experience, commitment and specialist support whilst maintaining the best possible standards of workmanship and safety.

Having the vision to combine manufacturing, design and engineering expertise has ensured that our clients have the exact installation that gives them the ultimate efficiency of the lightning protection system. 

Every industrial plant is struck by lightning at least once in several years. Thus Lightning rods are just as important as they have ever been and the lightning protection system is in common use today.

There are different types of solutions available today to protect a facility from lightning but it is a common misconception that they are variations of the same technology.

Three main types of lightning protection systems used today: conventional system, charge transfer system and early streamer emission air terminal systems.

Conventional lightning rod – invented by Benjamin Franklin; these rods attract a strike and convey the energy to the ground without damaging the building or facility. They are mounted on top of the buildings and electrically bonded to the ground.

Although lightning rod is the most commonly known form of conventional lightning protection system there have been a great number of technological advances.

Early streamer emission – this technology is very similar to the conventional lightning rod: it moves towards streamer generation and attracts lightning. The lightning rod can be distinguished due to its geometrically complex shape, the presence of a small object near the top and a discharge trigger.

Charge transfer technology – it takes a completely opposite approach to lightning protection: it prevents a lightning strike within a specified area designated for protection. The lightning rod or air terminal, in this case, collect the induced charge from thunderstorm clouds within the protected area and transfers it through an ionizer into the surrounding air. This results in relieving the imbalance between the cloud and ground and the strike are prevented.

As opposed to conventional lightning rods and early streamer emission, CTS is a better technology for various industries such as oil and gas, storage tank farms, all types of energy producers, etc. These facilities have many flammable and other sensitive materials, where using conventional lightning rod carries the risk of ignition or damage to various equipments.

Lightning Eliminators & consultant Inc. has the best solutions for creating a protected zone against a lightning strike and it is through their Dissipation Array System – a specific type of CTS. This system was invented and patented by LEC.

Contact us to actively boost the resistance to lightning attacks on your property, buildings, plants and other facilities. 

As external lighting protection system consists of components like lightning rod, cable connections, surge arresters, ground termination and cable fasteners.

A typical lightning protection system from Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. includes

-          A dissipation Array system, which is the key component and available in a range of configuration for almost any structure

-          A grounding system using Chem lightning rods(chemically charged electrodes)

-          A transient voltage surge suppression

-          Modular strike prevention devise

For more than 200 years lightning rods have been used to collect and control the destructive powers of lightning. But now there has been a greater number of technological advancement in the lightning protection industry. So it not wise to allow thousand of amperes to flow near sensitive electronic equipment by installing a lightning rod.

This is primarily because Charge Transfer System is available to prevent a lightning strike from occurring altogether.

In very simple language, a lightning rod serves as a terminal to pull away harmful electrical current from structures directly inside the ground; whereas, CTS actually prevents the formation of lightning within a protected area.

Conventional lightning rods are very simple in design - they are just electrically conductive metal rod barely 10 in tall.

The DAS (Dissipation Array System) working under CTS technology has proprietary configurations and contains electrical charging configurations. They use fewer air terminals, bonds, and grounds and still provide a larger zone of protection. Unlike a lightning rod, this technology works to reduce the rapid transfer of electrons that occur with lightning into a slow drip by pushing storm-induced electric charge up into the atmosphere, away from the protected place.

Both, the lightning rod and Dissipation Array System initially operate off the same scientific principle known as point discharge. The similarities between them end here as their actions diverge. A lightning rod moves towards streamer generation whereas DAS utilizes a slow discharge process.

Because CTS technology prevents rather than redirects lightning, it is a solid solution to lightning strike problems as compared to the conventional lightning rod.

Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. has been in the forefront of DAS development and also its patent holders. In the last four decades, this system has demonstrated a history of 99.7 percent reliability and includes a ‘no strike’ warranty. 

Lightning protection products have become a necessity.

Lightning is a natural phenomenon that simply cannot be avoided, thus we need to protect ourselves against it. Lightning causes major problems for companies such as damaging buildings, plants, and critical equipment. This phenomenon alone accounts for millions of dollars annually in structural damage to buildings. But what is not accounted for is the loss to business due to downtime or when the businesses are forced to shut down for repair.

Modern lightning protection products provide means by which the cause of lightning is eliminated altogether.

At Lightning Eliminators Consultant Inc., we provide high quality, effective and patented lightning protection products. Our aim is to provide the highest standards of services without compromising on quality and price. At LEC, our wealth of knowledge in lightning protection, earthing, and surge protection gives us the ability to offer leading edge product development and unparalleled technical support.

This commitment to quality follows through all aspects of the company. Our dedicated workshop, using a combination of high tech machinery, skilled staff, and technical expertise; have the ability to engineer and modify product items to the specification of each facility.

Catering to the requirements of the ever changing technological world we offer lightning protection products like:

Dissipation Array System – a breakthrough technology in preventing lightning strike, DAS reduces the formation of electrical field between the cloud and earth. Thus it prevents a lightning strike altogether diminishing the loss of assets and downtime.

Spline Ball Ionizer – the lighter version of the DAS technology, SBI is ideally installed on structure requiring lightweight protection with low wind profile. But it offers the same effects as its counterpart.

Spline Ball Terminal – a superior alternative to the conventional lightning rods, engineered to function greatly and reduce the risk of a direct lightning strike.

Streamer Delaying Air Terminal – as the name suggest, the SDAT is designed to delay upward stream generation and reduce the risk of lightning damage.

Our lightning protection products have great resistance to corrosion, offer security of high standards by drastically nullifying the effects of lightning and comply with the industry standards.

We continuously look for ways to make improvements and development to our company and have built long lasting trust with every customer.  

 

 A lightning protection system commonly known as LPS is designed to protect non conducting structures such as buildings and its contents from lightning damage. This system provides mean by which a lightning discharge may enter or leave earth without damaging or even passing through conducting or non-conducting source such as electrical and sensitive equipments.

A standard LPS does not prevent lightning from striking; it simply provides the lightning strike a low resistance path to the ground where the enormous energy is safely dispersed.

However, the lightning protection system manufacturers and patented by the Lightning Eliminators and Consultants Inc. work under the Dissipation Array System. This technology retards the collection of lightning within a finite protected zone. In more simple words, the system reduces the potential voltage difference between the protected site and the storm clouds significantly, thus preventing a lightning strike.

This reliable system encompasses both structural and transient overvoltage protection.

Let us understand the lightning protection system under the charge transfer technology; patented as the Dissipation Array System.

Without a protection device, every ground object will provide a path to earth to emit positive streamers (electricity) upwards into the sky. These positively charged ions intercept the negative ions from a thunder storm creating a channel of air for these voltage currents to travel along thus causing a lightning strike.

With LEC’s lighting protection system in place, the formation of upward positive streams is interrupted thereby eliminating a direct lightning strike within the protected area. It continuously lowers the voltage potential between the protected site and storm cells, preventing any lightning activity from terminating and does not allow itself to be struck either.

Advantages of installing a lightning protection system

-          It prevents fire and/or explosion. A fire or explosion can be triggered by the heat of lightning flash or by the overheating of electrical arcing and conductors.

-          It prevents failure of internal electrical and electronic systems

-          It prevents mechanical damage including dislodged materials  and punctures of structure roofing

Lightning can be unpredictable and a well-designed lightning protection system will take this into consideration. Lightning Eliminators and Consultants Inc. has designed this system such that it eliminates the huge energy from the protected area and at the same time safely using its other devices to draw away the energy which might have entered the protected area.