Prevention and Forensic
Analysis of Lightning Damage
(PAC 16-02, taped at POWERSYSTEMS
WORLD) Limited Time Sale:
This Day-long, two-segment course covers both prevention of lightning
damage for increased reliability , and the use of historical, radar and
satellite data, as well as site inspections to analyze lightning damage to
facilities.
Part 1: Managing the Lightning
Environment for Increased Reliability This course addresses the assessment of lightning risk for commercial and industrial facilities and lightning risk management
for mission-critical facilities using both archived and real-time lightning data.
You will learn:
How to use archival lightning data to obtain annual lightning incidence for a facility
How to use simple electrogeometric models to estimate lightning strike frequency
How to estimate where and how often lightning will strike a facility
How to interpret multi-strike events
What lightning events are most severe for various industries
How to assess the random nature of lightning events
How to interpret real-time lightning data
How to coordinate national and local lightning data systems
How to use real-time data to forecast risk
When to switch to backup power sources
How to run a lightning warning system for facilities operations
Decision-making criteria to avoid false positive
warnings
Part 2: Forensic Analysis of Lightning Damage Caused by Ground Strikes This course addresses the examination and analysis of historic data, including lightning location and meteorological
archives, together with site inspection to assess the cause and origin of lightning-related accidents involving severe
property damage or personnel death and injury.
You will learn:
How to interpret archived lightning location data
How to analyze lightning flashes on a stroke-by-stroke basis
How to interpret location accuracy and detection efficiency
How to estimate flash and stroke location errors
How to identify possible problem flashes
How to identify strokes missed by location system
The use of radar and satellite data to verify lightning data
What signatures to look for in lightning incidents
The use and misuse of eyewitnesses
When to reject lightning as a possible cause
How to present lightning data to an accident review board or
court-room
CD-ROM version includes:
-video (mpeg) and workbook (.pdf)
on 6 CD-ROMs
A-PAC-16-02-CD:
