TY - CHAP A1 - Darveniza, M. A1 - Flisowski, Z. A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Landers, E.-U. A1 - LoPiparo, G. A1 - Mazzetti, C. A1 - Rousseau, A. A1 - Sherlock, J. T1 - Application problems of the probabilistic approach to the assessment of risk for structures and services N2 - The paper deals with the development of the probabilistic approach to the assessment of risk due to lightning. Sources of damage, types of damage and types of loss are defined and, accordingly, the procedure for risk analysis and the way of assessment of different risk components is proposed. The way to evaluate the influence of different protection measures (lightning protection system; shielding of structure, cables and equipment; routing of internal wiring; surge protective device) in reducing such probabilities is considered. The paper has been prepared within the framework of the activity of IEC TC81-WG9/CLC TC81-WG4 directed to prepare the draft IEC 62305-2 Risk Management, in cooperation with the Secretary of IEC/CLC TC81. KW - Blitzschutz KW - Risikoabwägung KW - Lightning protection system KW - risk assessment KW - protection measures Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zischank, Wolfgang J. A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Frentzel, Ralf A1 - Heidler, Fridolin A1 - Seevers, M. T1 - Assessment of the lightning transient coupling to control cables interconnecting structures in large industrial facilities and power plants N2 - Large industrial facilities and power plants often require a huge number fo information and control cables between the differnet structures. These I&C-cables can be routed in reinforced concrete cable ducts or in isolated buried cable runs. KTA 2206 is the German lightning protection standard for nuclear power plants. During the last several years considerable effort has been made to revise this standard. Despite the well established principles and design guidelines for the construction of the lightning protection system, this standard puts special emphasis on the coupling of transient overvoltages to I&C-cables. KW - Blitzschutz KW - Elektromagnetische Kopplung KW - Überspannung KW - Kraftwerke KW - Industrieanlagen KW - Lightning KW - current distribution KW - electromagnetic coupling KW - overvoltages Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Schelthoff, Christof A1 - Mathieu, Moritz T1 - Calculation of interception efficiencies for airterminations using a dynamic electro-geometrical model Y1 - 2011 N1 - XI International Symposium on Lightning Protection (SIPDA), Fortaleza (Brasilien), 2011. SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Schelthoff, Christof A1 - Mathieu, Moritz T1 - Calculation of interception efficiencies for mesh-type air-terminations according to IEC 62305-3 using a dynamic electro-geometrical model T2 - International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP) : 2 - 7 Sept. 2012, Vienna Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-1-4673-1896-9 (E-Book) ; 978-1-4673-1898-3 (Print) SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, NJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Wiesinger, J. A1 - Zischank, Wolfgang J. T1 - Calculation of the longitudinal voltage along metal tubes caused by lightning currents and protection measures JF - Seventh International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering : Dresden, August 26 - 30 1991 Y1 - 1991 N1 - International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering <7, 1991, Dresden> PB - Techn. Univ. CY - Dresden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Thomsen, M. T1 - Comparison of single point and equipotential bonding for I&C systems of large-area industrial sites JF - Volume of proceedings : Budapest, Hungary, September 19-23, 1994 / organized by: Technical University of Budapest Y1 - 1994 N1 - International Conference on Lightning Protection <22, 1994, Budapest> ; ICLP <22, 1994, Budapest> ; Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem PB - Techn. Univ. CY - Budapest ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Roth, J. A1 - Wiedmann, J. T1 - Comparison of the damage for various types of fibre reinforced composites due to different lightning test standards (MIL-STD 1757 A, German military VG-standard 96903) JF - Proceedings of the 1992 International Aerospace and Ground Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity : October 6-8, 1992, Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ. Y1 - 1992 N1 - International Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity <1992, Atlantic City, NJ> PB - U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration CY - [Atlantic City, N.J.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Krichel, Frank T1 - Considerations about the lightning protection system of mains independent renewable energy hybrid-systems - practical experiences JF - Journal of electrostatics. 60 (2004), H. 2-4 Y1 - 2004 SN - 0304-3886 N1 - ISSN der E-Ausg.: 0304-3886 SP - 257 EP - 263 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Krichel, Frank T1 - Considerations about the lightning protection system of mains independent renewable energy hybrid-systems - practical experiences N2 - In the paper a lightning protection design concept for renewable energy hybrid-systems without power mains connection is described. Based on a risk analysis protection measures against direct strikes and overvoltages are shown in an overview. The design concept is realized exemplarily for the hybrid-system VATALI on the Greek island Crete. VATALI, not lightning protected at that time, was a victim of a lightning strike in the year 2000 causing destructions and damages of some mechanical and electrical components with costs of approx. 60.000 €. The hardware costs for the protection measures were about 15.000 €: about 50% of the costs are due to protection measures against direct strikes, 50% are due to overvoltage protection. KW - Blitzschutz KW - Erneuerbare Energien KW - Hybridsystem KW - Photovoltaikanlage KW - Windenergieanlage KW - Lightning protection KW - renewable energy KW - hybrid system KW - photovoltaic system KW - wind turbine Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Surtees, A. J. A1 - Gillespie, A. A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Rousseau, A. T1 - DEVELOPMENT OF A RISK ASSESSMENT CALCULATOR BASED ON A SIMPLIFIED FORM OF THE IEC 62305-2 STANDARD ON LIGHTNING PROTECTION N2 - Neue Blitzschutznorm IEC 62305. Entwicklung einer einfachen Software zur Risikoabwägung N2 - IEC Technical Committee 81 is currently creating the new IEC 62305 series of standards on Lightning Protection. Working Group 9 is responsible for Part 2 of this series, which deals with the assessment and management of risk its CDV (Committee Draft for Voting) stage and has been circulated to National Committees for comment. The paper details the development of the Simplified IEC Risk Assessment Calculator software tool as described in Informative Annex J of IEC62305-2 Ed.1/CDV 2. This tool is intended as a simplified implementation of the more rigorous treatment of risk management found in the written document. It is designed to be relatively intuitive for users who wish to obtain an initial assessment of risk sensitivity, but should not be considered a substitute to a full understanding of the methods provided in the standard when dealing with more complicated structures or those where greater risks to personal or system operation are involved. KW - Risiko KW - Risikoabwägung KW - Blitzrisiko KW - Blitzschutz KW - Risk KW - Risk Management KW - Risk Assessment KW - Lightning Risk KW - Lightning Protection Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Birkl, Josef A1 - Diendorfer, Gerhard A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Thern, Stephan T1 - Extremely high lightning peak currents T2 - 34th International Conference on Ligntning Protection, 02-07 September 2018 Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-5386-6635-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Landers, Ernst Ulrich A1 - Kern, Alexander T1 - Future evolution of risk management for structures : Advancement for the future IEC 62305-2 Ed3 Y1 - 2011 N1 - XI International Symposium on Lightning Protection (SIPDA), Fortaleza (Brasilien), 2011. SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rousseau, Alain A1 - Kern, Alexander T1 - How to deal with environmental risk in IEC 62305-2 T2 - 2014 International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP), Shanghai, China N2 - The 2nd edition of the lightning risk management standard (IEC 62305-2) considers structures, which may endanger environment. In these cases, the loss is not limited to the structure itself, which is valid for usual structures. In the past (Edition 1) this danger was simply taken into account by a special hazard factor, multiplying the existing risk for the structure with a number. Now, in the edition 2, we add to the risk for the structure itself a “second risk” due to the losses outside the structure. The losses outside can be treated independently from what occurs inside. This is a major advantage to analyze the risk for sensitive structures, like chemical plants, nuclear plants, or structures containing explosives, etc. In this paper, the existing procedure given by the European version EN 62305-2 Ed.2 is further developed and applied to a few structures. Y1 - 2014 SP - 521 EP - 527 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Heidler, F. A1 - Zischank, W. T1 - Induced overvoltages in cable ducts taking into account the current flow into earth / F. Heidler ; W. Zischank ... A. Kern ... JF - Conference proceedings : 14th - 18th September 1998, [Burlington Hotel, Birmingham, United Kingdom] / organised by: School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom Y1 - 1998 N1 - International Conference on Lightning Protection <24, 1998, Birmingham> ; School of Engineering and Advanced Technology ; ICLP <4, 1998, Birmingham> CY - Birmingham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zischank, Wolfgang J. A1 - Heidler, Fridolin A1 - Wiesinger, J. A1 - Metwally, I. A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Seevers, M. T1 - Laboratory simulation of direct lightning strokes to a modeled building : measurement of magnetic fields and included voltages JF - Journal of electrostatics. 60 (2004), H. 2 - 4 Y1 - 2004 SN - 0304-3886 N1 - ISSN der E-Ausg.: 0304-3886 SP - 223 EP - 232 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zischank, Wolfgang J. A1 - Heidler, Fridolin A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Metwally, I. A. A1 - Wiesinger, J. A1 - Seevers, M. T1 - Laboratory simulation of direct lightning strokes to a modelled building - measurement of magnetic fields and induced voltages N2 - In IEC 61312-2 equations for the assessment of the magnetic fields inside structures due to a direct lightning strike are given. These equations are based on computer simulations for shields consisting of a single-layer steel grid of a given mesh width. Real constructions, however, contain at least two layers of reinforcement steel grids. The objective of this study was to experimentally determine the additional shielding effectiveness of a second reinforcement layer compared to a single-layer grid. To this end, simulated structures were set up in the high current laboratory. The structures consisted of cubic cages of 2 m side length with one or with two reinforcement grids, respectively. The structures were exposed to direct lightning currents representing the variety of anticipated lightning current waveforms. The magnetic fields and their derivatives at several positions inside the structure as well as the voltage between “floor” and “roof” in the center were determined for different current injection points. From these data the improvement of the shielding caused by a second reinforcement layer is derived. KW - Direkter Blitzschlag KW - Elektromagnetischer Schutzschild KW - Magnetische Felder KW - Induzierte Spannungen KW - Stahlbetonkonstruktion KW - Lightning KW - electromagnetic shielding KW - magnetic field KW - reinforced concrete KW - induced voltage Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Heidler, Fridolin A1 - Zischank, Wolfgang J. A1 - Frentzel, Ralf T1 - Lightning current distribution and coupling to control cables in power plants or large industrial facilites Y1 - 2002 N1 - International Conference on Grounding and Earthing <2002, Rio de Janeiro> ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Krichel, Frank A1 - Neskakis, Apostolos A1 - Müller, Klaus-Peter (u.a.) T1 - Lightning protection design of a renewable energy hybrid-system without power mains connection Y1 - 2001 N1 - International Conference on Renewable Energies for Islands <2001, Crete> ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Krichel, Frank A1 - Müller, Klaus-Peter T1 - Lightning protection design of a renewable energy hybrid-system without power mains connection N2 - In the year 2000 a direct lightning strike to the hybridsystem without power mains connection VATALI on the Greek island Crete results in the destruction and damage of some mechanical and electrical components. The hybrid-system VATALI was not lightning protected at that time. The hardware damage costs are approx. 60,000 €. The exposed site of the hybrid-system on top of a mountain was and still is the reason for a high risk of lightning strikes. Also in the future further lightning strikes have to be taken into consideration. In the paper a fundamental lightning protection design concept for renewable energy hybrid-systems without power mains connection and protection measures against direct strikes and overvoltages are shown in detail. The design concept was realized exemplarily for the hybrid-system VATALI. The hardware costs for the protection measures were about 15,000 €. About 50% of the costs are due to protection measures against direct strikes, 50% are due to overvoltage protection. Future extensions, new installations, or modifications have to be included into the lightning protection design concept of the hybrid-system. KW - Blitzschutz KW - Erneuerbare Energien KW - Hybridsystem KW - Lightning protection KW - Renewable energy KW - hybrid-system Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bouquegneau, Christian A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Rousseau, Alain T1 - Lightning safety guidelines Y1 - 2010 N1 - Ground´2010 International Conference on Grounding and Earthing ; 4th International Conference ond Lightning Physics and Effects, Nov. 2010 Salvador - Brazil SP - 1 EP - 6 ER -