19922, 1:15 °M Lightning dasign fr buried cables - realy? | GrayMatters Home » Ask the Experts Electrical Earthing Blog » Lightning design for buried cables - really? 01/11/2017 BY IAN — LEAVE A COMMENT Lightning design for buried cables — really? Continuing the theme for lightning design. | was having a technical discussion with a delegate, during a seminar in Germany. The question popped up regarding Lightning design on an AD plant (AD = anaerobic digestion). This site, with long-buried cable-runs, between plant areas. The delegates question, “What about the buried cables?” What do we do about Lightning protection for buried cables in Lightning design?” The question was not aimed at surge protection, but at physical protection of the cables from a direct lightning strike. And, before you say what? Yes, buried cables are at risk from direct strike attachments. © Hello! What brings you here? hitpsigreymattersglobal.convightring-design-buried-cables! 1819922, 1:15 > Lightning dasign fr buried cables - realy? | GrayMatters What's the problem? So, consider this. The lightning stroke itself will have travelled a considerable distance through the air. Also, in the order of 1-2 km a dielectric medium. Therefore, the resistivity of air is approximately 1.3 - 3.3 x 1014 Qm depending on moisture levels (humidity, etc). So, do we think a few hundred millimetres of soil cover (which incidentally, is far more conductive than air), is going to prevent a lightning attachment to the cable? Well, maybe yes, maybe no. Clearly, the cable construction will play a part ina potential strike attachment. But lightning has been known to overcome the cable insulation of a few millimetres AND the soil cover combined. The actual risk may be acceptably small for most facilities, but what if Courtesy of Dehn you had the cables travelling in a Hazardous Zone or feeding a mission-critical facility, such as, a large-scale data-centre, nuclear power plant, telemetry on a highway or similar, then de-risking may be a no-brainer. How to protect buried c © Hello! What brings you here? hitpsilgreymattersglobal.convightring-design-buried-cables! 21819922, 1:15 PM Lightning design for buried cables - really? | GreyMatters Se PEERS a ee Sey ee Earthwire on an Overhead Powerline (OHL). Imagine the cables are structures, and these structures are above ground so the soil doesn't exist. All we need to do is exercise a little imagination and imagine the cables are above- ground structures like the phase conductors on an OHL and ignore the soil. This is what Lightning protection for buried cables looks like. If you've got a project or query you'd like us to look at, why not drop usa line on LiveChat? 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