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    The document introduces a new type of long flashover arrester (LFA-M) that provides a simple, effective, and inexpensive method for lightning protection of medium voltage overhead distribution lines. The LFA-M can protect lines against both induced over voltages and direct lightning strokes. It works by extending the impulse flashover channel along the arrester surface through creeping discharge, which allows the power arc to extinguish. This prevents the arrester from being destroyed by excessive current during a direct lightning strike. The LFA-M has been tested in Russia on 10kV distribution lines over the past three years with over 80,000 arresters installed, and the results have been very successful.

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    The document introduces a new type of long flashover arrester (LFA-M) that provides a simple, effective, and inexpensive method for lightning protection of medium voltage overhead distribution lines. The LFA-M can protect lines against both induced over voltages and direct lightning strokes. It works by extending the impulse flashover channel along the arrester surface through creeping discharge, which allows the power arc to extinguish. This prevents the arrester from being destroyed by excessive current during a direct lightning strike. The LFA-M has been tested in Russia on 10kV distribution lines over the past three years with over 80,000 arresters installed, and the results have been very successful.

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    The document introduces a new type of long flashover arrester (LFA-M) that provides a simple, effective, and inexpensive method for lightning protection of medium voltage overhead distribution lines. The LFA-M can protect lines against both induced over voltages and direct lightning strokes. It works by extending the impulse flashover channel along the arrester surface through creeping discharge, which allows the power arc to extinguish. This prevents the arrester from being destroyed by excessive current during a direct lightning strike. The LFA-M has been tested in Russia on 10kV distribution lines over the past three years with over 80,000 arresters installed, and the results have been very successful.

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    Chapter 1

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    Navneet Singh
    The document introduces a new type of long flashover arrester (LFA-M) that provides a simple, effective, and inexpensive method for lightning protection of medium voltage overhead distribution lines. The LFA-M can protect lines against both induced over voltages and direct lightning strokes. It works by extending the impulse flashover channel along the arrester surface through creeping discharge, which allows the power arc to extinguish. This prevents the arrester from being destroyed by excessive current during a direct lightning strike. The LFA-M has been tested in Russia on 10kV distribution lines over the past three years with over 80,000 arresters installed, and the results have been very successful.

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    CHAPTER 1

    INTRODUCTION

    1.1 General

    A new simple, effective and inexpensive method for lightning protection of medium voltage overhead distribution line is using long flashover arresters (LFA). A new long flashover arrester model has been developed. It is designated as LFA-M. It offers great number of technical and economical advantages. The important feature of this modular long flashover arrester (LFA-M) is that it can be applied for lightning protection of overhead distribution line against both induced over voltages and direct lightning strokes. The induced over voltages can be counteracted by installing a single arrester on an overhead line support (pole). For the protection of lines against direct lightning strokes, the arresters are connected between the poles and all of the phase conductors in parallel with the insulators. In many countries, covered conductors are used for distribution overhead lines. Such conductors have many benefits comparing with bared conductors but there is a problem of conductors burn down by power arc follow .which occurs after application of lightning over voltage and flashover of insulator. Arcing horns or similar devices, which are used in some countries for protection of covered conductors against conductors burn down, do not protect overhead lines from lightning outages. In Russia for lightning overvoltage and conductor-burn protection of 10 kV overhead lines, Long Flashover Arresters (LFAs) have been used for more than three years. The operating principle is based on extension of the impulse flashover channel on the arrester surface through the creeping discharge effect. Owing to a long flashover length, the power arc gets extinguished. The main advantage of LFA is that current passes outside the apparatus, flowing along arrester surface. Therefore, the arrester cannot be destroyed by excessive current, even at direct lightning stroke. LFAs construction is rather simple and reliable. There are several types of LFA under development. LFA of Loop type (LFA-L) is intended for protection of overhead lines against induced over voltages. LFA-Ls are recommended to be installed one arrester per pole with phase interlacing. LFA of Module type (LFA-M) can protect overhead lines against induced over voltages and direct lightning strokes as well. In latter case it should be installed in parallel to each insulator at a pole. Experimental exploitation of LFAs started in 1999 and during last three years more than 80 thousands arresters were installed in various utilities. Since field experience with 10 kV LFAs in Russia is very successful, it was decided to work on developing 13.8 kV LFAs .considering that it is the predominant voltage level of overhead distribution lines in Brazil and other countries. Lightning has been reported as being the main source of outages on distribution networks, corresponding to 30 to 60 % of these system outage indexes.

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