Lightning Protection Products You Never Knew You Needed

Dissipation Systems are designed to prevent lightning strikes. These refer to devices using point discharge phenomena to retard and reduce the potential of lightning strikes on their protected devices.

Choosing the appropriate lightning protection products for a specific application requires several performance issues to be considered, such as the radius of the dissipater electrode cross-section, the construction material of the dissipater, the number and density of electrodes, and the configuration of the dissipater on the structure it is designed to protect. 

The Dissipation Array System (or DAS) is a lightning prevention system. Well, it doesn’t prevent lightning from happening altogether, but it does prevent lightning from striking the protected structure. There is a lot of detail on how it does this, but the simple version is that it lowers the electrostatic field in the protected zone. This prevents upward-rising lightning leaders (or streamers) from being created on the protected structure. Without these upward-rising leaders, essential for lightning collection, lightning would not be able to hit that structure. The DAS is a no-strike prevention system. This means that the system will not allow strikes to the protected area due to its high level of performance. 

Our lightning protection products also consist of a low-impendence grounding system, Transient Voltage Surge Suppression (TVSS), and a Strike Prevention Device (SBI). It can be configured for almost every structure; for example, the Hemisphere Array is suitable for industrial or commercial structures, whereas the Rim Array is designed for floating roof tanks in the petrochemical and flammable industries.

The SBIs are a more cost-effective, modular design based on the same principle of operation. They prevent 70-80% of strikes at a lower cost. 

Spline Ball Terminal – It has the capability of decreasing the risk of a direct lightning strike, and if prevention is not possible, it safely collects the strikes and eliminates them to the ground. The SBT is an off-the-shelf lightning protection product that perfectly replaces standard air terminals.

Our state-of-the-art products and reliable installation processes ensure you can have peace of mind knowing your property is protected. Trust us to be your go-to source for all your lightning protection needs. We serve a wide range of customers, including oil, gas, chemical, and other industrial facilities. We have established ourselves as a global authority.

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