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STATE-OF-THE-ART LIGHTNING PROTECTION FOR HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES Steve: One of my clients operates a large chemical plant on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Because of its location, lightning has always been an issue for them. They could live with the limited amount of damage to equipment, but reliability issues, up to and including plant outages, were more […]
Microprocessor-based equipment has improved modern operations; they run faster and more efficiently than ever. With technical advances, comes the requirement for progressive maintenance responsibilities and the need to step up the measures that protect them from damage. The measures that were adequate for equipment based on previous technologies would therefore be insufficient. How Lightning Forms […]
Steel and fiberglass production tanks are subject to myriad vulnerabilities. They require multiple layers of static and lightning protection including: Dissipation of static and bound charge (potential) on the stored product Direct lightning attachment to the tank or tank battery Bonding of all masses of inductance on the tank and battery There exist solutions that […]
Download the PDF It was a stormy night… The importance of grounding. It’s nearly done. After all those months, weeks, days and nights of hard work, the wireless system is almost up and running. Tomorrow, the local telephone service provider will be bringing in the T1 lines, the wireless will be connected to the wire-line […]
Download the PDF A clear understanding of the operational theory of streamer-delaying products might lead the technology’s opponents to take another look and to devote some of their energy to figuring out how and why it works. Bruce A. Kaiser Six years ago there raged in these pages a debate over the benefits of static dissipation as […]
Download the PDF The bearings on a submersible pump at the Loxahatchee River District Wastewater Treatment Plant in South Florida were failing frequently and apparently at random during the summer. But after plant operators reviewed maintenance and weather records, they realized that the failures always occurred within 3 days of a suspected direct lightning strike […]