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Experimental Study on Lighting Shielding Performance of ±500 kV HVDC Transmission Lines Hengxin HE, Junjia HE, Dandan Zhang, Li DING College of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Huazhong University of Science & Technology Wuhan, China Email: [email protected] Zhenglong JIANG, Cheng WANG, Huisheng YE Hunan Electric Power Test and Research Institute Changsha, China Abstract—This paper is to investigate the lightning shielding performance of the HVDC transmission line when taking the dc operation voltage into account. Firstly, the equivalency of the scale experiment is discussed from the following aspects: (a) the determination of test scale factor; (b) the electric field simulation of downward leader; (c) nominal field simulation of the HVDC transmission line. Secondly, a test circuit is established taking into account of the isolation of the dc charge circuit and surge generator. The exposure space distribution of the HVDC transmission line is obtained from a large amount discharge experiments. The total number of recorded discharge is over 7500 times. The competition between upward streamers originating from the grounded wire and polar conductor is observed by using the high-speed digital camera. Finally, the effectiveness mechanism of the dc operation voltage on the lightning shielding performance of HVDC transmission line is analyzed according to the recorded phenomenon. Keywords-±500 kV HVDC transmission line; lightning stroke shielding; scaled experiment; test equivalency; exposure space; upward streamer I. INTRODUCTION Lightning strokes to overhead transmission lines is a usual reason for unscheduled supply interruptions in the modern power systems. Field study indicates that more than 90% lightning stroke outage accidents for extra high voltage (EHV) and ultra high voltage (UHV) transmission lines are caused by shielding failure flashover. To improve the shielding effect of transmission line against lightning strokes is one of the key problems of the transmission line design, which aims at both maintaining reliability and reducing costs. The lightning shielding failure flashover rate of the HVDC transmission lines is higher than that of the EHVAC transmission lines in China. For the ±500 kV Jiang-Cheng HVDC transmission line which is a part of the Three-Gorges power energy transmission project and has been put into operation in 2004. The average lighting shielding failure flashover rate is 0.38 flashes/100km·a. A total of thirteen lighting shielding failure trip-off accidents occurred. Eleven trip-off accidents of them occurred on the positive polar of the bipolar HVDC system [1] . The similar results are reportd from the operation experience of ±500 kV Tian-Guang and ±500 kV Gui-Guang HVDC project in China [2] . It is believed that the simulation experiment is an effective way to determine the probability of lightning strokes attaching to the power facilities and to estimate the shielding effect of lightning rod or shielding wire [3-7] . The credibility of the lightning simulation experiment depends on how exactly it reconstructs the actual lightning attachment process. Over the past three decades, many experiments have been carried out in high-voltage laboratories to develop a more valid way to simulate the lightning attachment process by using long sparkle discharge. Most of these experiments were carried out by using two typical configurations. One is a rod-plane gap that the rod electrode is energized with positive impulse voltage and the plane is grounded potential [8] . It results in a positive leader incepting from the rod. Another typical configuration is an inverted rod-plane gap [5] . In this configuration, the overhead plane electrode is energized with negative impulse voltage and the rod is located on the ground at zero potential. It results a positive upward leader inception from the rod. In this paper, a traditional rod-plane gap is adopted. The rod electrode is energized with negative impulse voltage. The test object is replaced by a scaled model. Therefore, the encounter process of the downward leader and upward leader can be simulated by the negative streamer inception from the rod electrode and the upward streamer inception from the scaled model, respectively. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lightning shielding performance of the HVDC transmission line concerning the effectiveness of dc operation voltage by employing a simulation experiment approach. Firstly, the equivalency of the scaled experiment is discussed from the following aspects: (a) the determination of test scale factor; (b) the electric field simulation of downward leader; (c) nominal field simulation of the HVDC transmission line. Secondly, a test circuit is established concerning the isolation of the dc charge circuit and surge generator. The exposure space distribution of the HVDC transmission line obtained from a large amount discharge experiments and the typical discharge phenomenon are described in section 3. Finally, the effect mechanism of the dc voltage on the lightning shielding performance of HVDC transmission line is preliminary analyzed according to the recorded phenomenon. 978-1-4244-2487-0/09/$25.00 ©2009 IEEE

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  • Experimental Study on Lighting Shielding Performance of ±500 kV HVDC Transmission Lines Hengxin HE, Junjia HE, Dandan Zhang, Li DING

    College of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Huazhong University of Science & Technology

    Wuhan, China Email: [email protected]

    Zhenglong JIANG, Cheng WANG, Huisheng YE Hunan Electric Power Test and Research Institute

    Changsha, China

    Abstract—This paper is to investigate the lightning shielding performance of the HVDC transmission line when taking the dc operation voltage into account. Firstly, the equivalency of the scale experiment is discussed from the following aspects: (a) the determination of test scale factor; (b) the electric field simulation of downward leader; (c) nominal field simulation of the HVDC transmission line. Secondly, a test circuit is established taking into account of the isolation of the dc charge circuit and surge generator. The exposure space distribution of the HVDC transmission line is obtained from a large amount discharge experiments. The total number of recorded discharge is over 7500 times. The competition between upward streamers originating from the grounded wire and polar conductor is observed by using the high-speed digital camera. Finally, the effectiveness mechanism of the dc operation voltage on the lightning shielding performance of HVDC transmission line is analyzed according to the recorded phenomenon.

    Keywords-±500 kV HVDC transmission line; lightning stroke shielding; scaled experiment; test equivalency; exposure space; upward streamer

    I. INTRODUCTION Lightning strokes to overhead transmission lines is a usual

    reason for unscheduled supply interruptions in the modern power systems. Field study indicates that more than 90% lightning stroke outage accidents for extra high voltage (EHV) and ultra high voltage (UHV) transmission lines are caused by shielding failure flashover. To improve the shielding effect of transmission line against lightning strokes is one of the key problems of the transmission line design, which aims at both maintaining reliability and reducing costs.

    The lightning shielding failure flashover rate of the HVDC transmission lines is higher than that of the EHVAC transmission lines in China. For the ±500 kV Jiang-Cheng HVDC transmission line which is a part of the Three-Gorges power energy transmission project and has been put into operation in 2004. The average lighting shielding failure flashover rate is 0.38 flashes/100km·a. A total of thirteen lighting shielding failure trip-off accidents occurred. Eleven trip-off accidents of them occurred on the positive polar of the bipolar HVDC system[1]. The similar results are reportd from the operation experience of ±500 kV Tian-Guang and ±500 kV Gui-Guang HVDC project in China [2].

    It is believed that the simulation experiment is an effective way to determine the probability of lightning strokes attaching to the power facilities and to estimate the shielding effect of lightning rod or shielding wire [3-7]. The credibility of the lightning simulation experiment depends on how exactly it reconstructs the actual lightning attachment process. Over the past three decades, many experiments have been carried out in high-voltage laboratories to develop a more valid way to simulate the lightning attachment process by using long sparkle discharge. Most of these experiments were carried out by using two typical configurations. One is a rod-plane gap that the rod electrode is energized with positive impulse voltage and the plane is grounded potential [8]. It results in a positive leader incepting from the rod. Another typical configuration is an inverted rod-plane gap [5]. In this configuration, the overhead plane electrode is energized with negative impulse voltage and the rod is located on the ground at zero potential. It results a positive upward leader inception from the rod. In this paper, a traditional rod-plane gap is adopted. The rod electrode is energized with negative impulse voltage. The test object is replaced by a scaled model. Therefore, the encounter process of the downward leader and upward leader can be simulated by the negative streamer inception from the rod electrode and the upward streamer inception from the scaled model, respectively.

    The purpose of this paper is to investigate the lightning shielding performance of the HVDC transmission line concerning the effectiveness of dc operation voltage by employing a simulation experiment approach. Firstly, the equivalency of the scaled experiment is discussed from the following aspects: (a) the determination of test scale factor; (b) the electric field simulation of downward leader; (c) nominal field simulation of the HVDC transmission line. Secondly, a test circuit is established concerning the isolation of the dc charge circuit and surge generator. The exposure space distribution of the HVDC transmission line obtained from a large amount discharge experiments and the typical discharge phenomenon are described in section 3. Finally, the effect mechanism of the dc voltage on the lightning shielding performance of HVDC transmission line is preliminary analyzed according to the recorded phenomenon.

    978-1-4244-2487-0/09/$25.00 ©2009 IEEE

  • II. TEST EQUIVALENCY

    A. Test scale factor The lightning simulation experiment is generally carried

    out by using a configuration commonly known as a rod-plane gap. The negative downward leader channel is simulated by a rod electrode applying surge impulse to it and the electric power facilities under test are replaced by their miniature model. As shown in Fig.1, Hc is the height of the cloud, D is the horizontal distance between return stroke channel and ground object, DM is the distance between discharge strike point to the ground and the test object in laboratory experiment. It is impossible to simulate the whole process of lightning discharges by laboratory experiments with conventional lightning or switching impulses and only the final stage of lightning strokes to the grounded objects can be simulated by laboratory discharge in long air gaps under impulse voltages [3].Consequently, the test scale factor can be defined as the ratio of the streamer length of the negative downward leader zFL and the final jump distance of the laboratory long air gap discharge zFD:

    FLFD

    zkz

    = (1)

    The return stroke incepts when the streamer ahead the negative downward leader tip reaches the ground according to the propagation mechanism of natural cloud-to-ground lightning flashes. Hence the final jump distance is approximately equal to the streamer length of the negative downward leader zFL, which can be also roughly calculated by the empirical formula of strike distance. In this study, the final jump distance to the ground is calculated by using the downward leader charge distribution model proposed in [9] and [10], which is based on electrostatic considerations of measured waveforms of the return-stroke current. The downward leader core is assumed as the region where the electric field exceeds 3.0MV/m which is the critical ionization field of air. The length of the streamer ahead of the downward leader is calculated by the ambient potential profile ahead of the downward leader and by the constant electric field maintained inside the established negative corona region which is equal to 750.0kV/m for a negative streamer [11]. Therefore, the calculated results of the streamer length at the final jump of the negative downward leader as a function of the magnitude of lightning current is shown in Fig. 2. The maximum lightning current magnitude simulated here is approximately -40.0kA and the corresponding final jump length zFL is 50.22 m.

    Meanwhile, the maximum rod-plane gap length of the scaled experiment is 1.5m and corresponding breakdown voltage is approximate -1200.0kV under negative 250/2500 sswitch impulse voltage. It is in the acceptable error range that the discharge final jump distance zFD of scaled experiment is equal to the length of rod-plane gap HL considering the average electric field of negative streamer is 750.0kV/m. Thus the scale factor k is equal to 40.0 considering certain surplus margin. And the height of the scaled model is given by

    FDMFL

    zhh hk z

    = = ⋅ (2)

    Where h is the height of the actual grounded object under test and k is the test scale factor.

    Rod electrode

    Thunder cloud

    zFL

    HC

    HL Streamer

    Downward leader

    zFD hM

    Scale model

    Grounded object

    h

    DDM

    Fig. 1 Illustration of the scale factor of lightning shielding simulation experiment

    Fig. 2 the final jump length to the ground as a function of the magnitude of lightning current of downward leader

    B. The electric field simulation produced by the downward leader This section is devoted to discuss one of the most important

    aspects to ensure the credibility of the scale experiment. Assuming E1 (t) is the electric field in the vicinity of an actual grounded object during the final stage of the negative downward leader attachment to the grounded object, and E2(t)is the electric field nearby the test model during the discharge process in laboratory experiments. The equivalency of the scale experiment can be guaranteed, if the variation of E2(t) is consistent with the variation of E1 (t).

    According to the superposition principle, the spatial electric field E1(t) during the period of the negative downward leader attachment to the HVDC transmission line has two components Es(t) and Ei(t). Ei(t) is the total electric field produced by the HVDC transmission line which will be discussed in the following section. Es(t)is the electric field produced by the charge in the downward leader channel which can be calculated by the following methods.

    The average velocity of the negative downward leader vdcan be calculated by the empirical formula proposed in [14]:

    4 1/ 3d 8 10v I= × (3) Where I is the magnitude of lightning current. The average progress velocity of the downward stepped leader was found to be in the range of (1.8-2.2) ×105m/s from some observations of lightning strikes by Berger et al. From equation (10), using a lightning current I is equal to 30.0 kA, the velocity is 2.49×105m/s, which is consistent with Berger’s observations.

  • Combining with the leader channel model mentioned in section .A, the electric field at ground level is calculated when the magnitude of lightning current I is respective 10.0, 20.0 and 30.0 kA, and the corresponding horizontal distance Dis 50.0, 100.0 and 150.0m from the lightning channel, which is shown in Fig. 3. The calculation results confirm that the electric field increases significantly when the downward leader attaches to the ground in the final stage, and the total duration time is approximately in the range of 200.0~1000.0 s. It is consisted with the results of artificially triggered lightning experiments [15] and the close lightning electromagnetic measurements of the nature cloud-to-ground flashes [16].In order to simulate the electric field variation excited by the descending leader in the vicinity of the grounded object during the final stage, the standard 250/2500 s negative switch impulse voltage is applied to the rod electrode in the scaled experiments.

    Fig. 3 Electric field waveforms in the vicinity of lightning stroke target at ground level

    C. Nominal field simulation of the HVDC transmission line Another component of the spatial electric field E1(t) during

    the negative downward leader attachment to the HVDC transmission line is Ei(t), which is the total electric field produced by the HVDC transmission line. However, only the nominal field of the HVDC transmission line is concerned and the ion current field is neglected in this study for a simplification consideration.

    In order to select the valid magnitude of dc voltage applied to the scaled model line, the surface electric field Ec on the polar conductors of the actual HVDC transmission line and the scaled model line under monopole operation mode are calculated respectively by using the charge simulation method (CSM). The configuration position of the grounded wires and polar conductors are located according to the geometrical size of G4-40 which is a type of straight tower widely used in ±500kV HVDC transmission project in China. The calculation results are shown in Tab. 1. where rw is the radius of grounded wire, rc the radius of sub-conductor and Udc the dc voltage applied to the polar conductors, respectively. It indicates that the surface electric field of scaled model line coincides with the surface electric field of the actual HVDC transmission line if the applied dc voltage is in the range of 15.0~16.0kV. The four-bundle polar conductors of the actual transmission line are simulated by a single conductor in the scaled model line.

    Moreover, the electric field distribution at ground level of the scaled model line is measured by using the EFA–3 electric

    field sensor when the dc voltage applied to the positive polar of the model line is 16.0kV. The measuring result coincides with the calculation result of the electric field distribution at ground level of the actual ±500 kV HVDC transmission line, as shown in Fig.4. The comparison implies that the nominal electric field distribution in the vicinity space of the scaled model line can be excellently agree with that of the actual ±500 kV HVDC transmission line, if the dc voltage applied to the positive polar of the scaled model line is in the range of 15.0~16.0kV. Tab. 1 the surface electric field strength of a HVDC transmission line and

    the model line Transmission Lines rw/cm rc/cm Udc/kV Ec/ kV/cm

    Actual HVDC transmission lines

    0.550 1.186 550.0 22.347

    Scaled model line 0.055 0.100 15.00 22.328 Scaled model line 0.055 0.100 16.00 23.816

    Fig. 4 Measured and calculated electric field distribution at ground level of model transmission line under monopole operation mode contrasting

    with that of the actual HVDC transmission line

    III. EXPERIMENTAL CONFIGURATIONS

    A. Test Objects & Electrode Configurations The purpose of this paper is to study on the lightning

    shielding performance of the ±500 kV HVDC transmission line by using the experimental approach. The test object is the 1:40 scaled model line of the actual ±500 kV HVDC transmission line. It includes two 1:40 scaled model towers of G4-40 which is a type of straight tower widely used in ±500 kV HVDC transmission project in China. And it also contains the scaled model line segment connected to the scaled model towers. The four-bundle polar conductors and the grounded wire of the actual transmission line are replaced by a single conductor in the scaled model line with the radius of 1.0mm and 0.55mm, respectively. The length of the insulator string scaled model is 14.0cm which is made by epoxy rod with a diameter of 16.0mm. The shielding angle of the scaled model line is 11.3°.

    The negative downward stepped leader before the final jump stage is simulated by a rod electrode. The length of the negative downward leader can account for approximately over 90.0% of the whole gap length between the thunder cloud and the ground in natural cloud-to-ground flashes. Therefore the rod electrode should be as long as possible to reproduce the spatial electric field distribution beneath the downward stepped leader. A copper rod electrode with length of 2.0m and diameter of 18.0mm is adopted in the experiments. The rod electrode whose lower tip is fabricated into a cone with an apex angle of 30° is set aslant with a degree of 30° to ensure that every discharge incepts from the lower tip of the rod electrode.

  • Finally, the upper tip of the rod electrode is connected with the surge generator and hoisted by the driving crane located on the roof of the high-voltage test hall.

    B. DC charge and isolation circuit As discussed in section (c), in order to simulate the

    nominal electric field distribution of the HVDC transmission line, a dc voltage in the range of 15.0kV~16.0kV is applied to the polar conductor of the scaled model line. In the experiments, the maximum magnitude of applied surge voltage to the rod electrode is up to -1500.0kV. Therefore, the isolation of the dc charge circuit and the surge generator circuit should be considered when polar conductor of the scaled model line is attached by the primary discharge. The dc charge and isolation circuit proposed in the paper is shown in Fig.5: The ac resistance of water-resistance R1 is 400.0k , the capacitance value and surge withstand voltage of C2 is 0.65 F and 75.0kV, respectively. As illustrated in Fig. 6, a 250/2500 s negative switch impulse voltage with a magnitude of 286.0kV is directly applied at point A, and the over-voltage waveform of point B indicates that the maximum voltage magnitude and the voltage rising rate at point B can be significantly restricted by using the energy absorption branch R1-C2. In addition, the over-voltage of the test transformer outlet can be effectively restricted by using water-resistance R2. The ac resistance of R2 is 160.0 k .

    The charge volume accumulated on the surface of the polar conductor of the scaled model line relies heavily on the grounding status of the polar conductor, which has significant influence on the upward streamer inception condition of the polar conductor [17]. As shown in Fig.6, the capacitor C1provides a charge accumulation path from the ground to the polar conductor of the scaled model line. The capacitance value and surge withstand voltage of C1 is 300.0pF and 400.0kV, respectively. In order to avoid the external insulation flashover of capacitor C1, a 2.0cm needle-needle protection air gap is employed to parallel connection to the scaled insulator string. The surge breakdown voltage of this protection air gap is approximately 48.0kV. The protection air gap breaks down if the polar conductor is attached by the primary discharge. The voltage rising on the capacitor C1 can be effectively restricted. Moreover, the over-voltage of the test transformer outlet can be limited in a security range combining with the dc charge and isolation circuit.

    1-rod electrode 2-grounded wire 3-polar conductor4-scaled model of insulator string 5-protection air gap 6-scaled tower model7-post insulator 8-silicon-diode 9-test transformer 10-voltage regulator 11-

    isolation transformer Fig. 5 Illustration of the test circuit

    Fig. 6 Impulse response of DC charge test circuit (1-Applied switch impulse voltage at point A; 2-Response waveform at point B)

    C. Observation equipment and Test procedure The discharge process is recorded by the PCO.1200hs high-

    speed digital camera. It is produced by the PCO company in Germany. And the photographic speed in the experiments is 1000 frames/s.

    The probability of polar conductor attached by the primary discharge at a certain position Pc(x, y) is tested by the following procedure. Firstly, the rod electrode tip is placed at (x, y). A total number of 50 impulses are applied to the rod electrode for each rod electrode tip location (x, y). Then the attachment times to the grounded wire ng and polar conductor nc by the primary discharge are recorded. Finally, the shielding failure probability Pc(x, y) of polar conductor at position (x, y) can be yielded by dividing nc by the total number of applied impulses. Following that, if we change the position of the electrode tip (x, y), the exposure space distribution of the polar conductor can be obtained by repeating the procedure mentioned above which is shown in the Fig. 7.

    Fig. 7 Illustration of test arrangement for investigating the distribution of the probability of polar conductor attached by the primary discharge at a

    certain position Pc(x, y)

    IV. TEST RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS This experiment is carried out in the high-voltage test hall

    of Hunan Electric Power Test and Research Institute (EPTRI) in China from June to August in 2007. The total number of the recorded discharge is over 7500 times.

    A. The Pc(x, y) distribution of the scaled model line The Pc(x, y) distribution of the positive polar conductor is

    obtained respectively when the dc voltage applied to the positive polar is 0.0kV and 16.0kV by repeating the test procedure proposed in section . C. The equal probability

  • curves Pi of the positive polar attached by the primary discharge can be calculated by employing the curve fitting tools Datafit 7.02.

    All the tested spatial locations of the rod electrode tip are categorized into five groups according to the probability of the positive polar conductor attached by primary discharge when the applied dc voltage is equal to 0.0kV. The corresponding probability intervals are: [0.0%, 20.0%], [20.0%, 40.0%], [40.0%, 60.0%], [60.0%, 80.0%] and [80.0%, 100.0%]. All the spatial points mentioned above are illustrated in Fig.8. The calculated equal probability curves Pi show a good agreement with the test results.

    The equal probability curves of the positive polar attached by the primary discharge are obtained by adopting the same procedure mentioned above when the applied dc voltage is equal to 16.0kV. As shown in Fig. 9 the exposure space of the polar conductor expands significantly when the applied dc voltage to the positive polar is equal to 16.0kV.

    Pi=20.0% Pi=40.0% Pi=60.0% Pi=80.0% Pc>0.0% Pc>20.0% Pc>40.0% Pc>60.0% Pc>80.0%

    1- 2- 3- 4-

    Fig. 8 the exposure space distribution of G4–40 (Udc=0.0 kV)

    1-Udc=16.0 kV Pc=10.0% 2-Udc=16.0 kV Pc=50.0% 3-Udc=16.0 kV Pc=90.0%

    4-Udc=0.0 kV Pc=10.0% 5-Udc=0.0 kV Pc=50.0% 6-Udc=0.0 kV Pc=90.0% Fig. 9 the comparison of exposure space distribution of G4-40 taking into

    account of the applied dc voltage

    B. Effect of dc operation voltage magnitude and polarity on the Pc(x, y) distribution The rod electrode tip is located at x=1400.0 mm. The Pc(x,

    y) distribution is obtained by changing the y coordinate of the rod tip when the dc voltage applied to the polar conductor is -

    30.0, −16.0, 0.0, 16.0, 30.0 kV, respectively. The test results are shown in Fig.10. It indicates that the probability of the polar conductor attached by the primary discharge increases significantly as the applied positive dc voltage increases. And the exposure space reduces because of the effect of the negative dc voltage.

    Fig. 10 Distribution of exposure space variation with the polarity and magnitude of DC voltage at x=1 400.00 mm

    C. Effect Mechanism of dc operation voltage The effect mechanism of the dc voltage on the Pc(x, y)

    distribution is preliminary analyzed according to the discharge phenomenon recorded by the high-speed digital camera.

    The typical discharge phenomena are illustrated in Fig. 11. Fig. 11 (a) and Fig. 11 (b) show the typical phenomena of the grounded wire and polar conductor attached by the primary discharge respectively when the applied dc voltage is equal to 0.0kV.

    As shown in Fig. 11 (a) and Fig. 11 (b), although the upward streamer incepts from the grounded wire, the polar conductor is attached by the primary discharge when the applied dc voltage is equal to 16.0kV. It can be concluded that the competition exists between the upward streamers incepted from the polar conductor and grounded wire. The incepted upward streamer from the polar conductor takes the lead in encountering the downward streamer incepting from rod electrode. Therefore, the primary discharge attaches to the polar conductor even if the upward streamer incepts from the grounded wire.

    The applied positive dc voltage increases the surface electric field of the polar conductor. It is easier to satisfy the upward streamer inception criterion for the polar conductor than the situation which the applied positive dc voltage is zero. Meanwhile, this competition phenomenon is also shown in Fig. 11 (e) and Fig. 11 (f). Although the upward streamer incepts from polar conductor, the grounded wire is attached by the primary discharge when the applied dc voltage is equal to 16.0kV. It confirms the conclusions discussed above.

  • (a) (b) (c)

    (d) (e) (f)

    Fig. 11 Photograph of discharge phenomenon recorded by high speed camera. (a) and (b) is the typical phenomena of the grounded wire and polar conductor attached by the primary discharge respectively when the applied dc voltage is equal to 0.0kV; (c) and (d) is the typical phenomena of the polar

    conductor attached by the primary discharge even if the upward streamer incepts from the grounded wire; (e) and (f) is the typical phenomena of the grounded wire attached by the primary discharge though the upward streamer incepts from the polar conductor;

    V. CONCLUSIONSThis paper has described the investigation method and

    results of the lightning shielding performance of the HVDC transmission line. The scale experiments were carried out to study the exposure space distribution of the HVDC transmission line taking into account the effect of the dc voltage. The main contributions of present work are summarized as follows:

    1) The credibility of the lightning simulation experiment depends on how exactly it reproduces the electric field E(t) variation in the vicinity of the grounded object in the final stage of the lightning attaching to the grounded object. E(t) consists of two components Es(t) and Ei(t) which is produced by the downward leader channel and the HVDC transmission line, respectively. Es(t) can be simulated by using a rod electrode energized with negative switch impulse. It is recommended the rise time of the applied impulse voltage is in the range of 200.0~1000.0 s taking into account of the average velocity of the natural negative downward step leader. Ei(t) can be simulate by applying a dc voltage in the range of 15.0~16.0 kV to the 1:40 scaled model line. The encounter process of the downward leader and upward leader can be simulated under this configuration.

    2) A test circuit is established taking the isolation of the dc charge circuit and surge generator loop into account.

    3) The competition between upward streamers originating from the grounded wire and polar conductor is observed by using the high-speed digital camera. The applied dc voltage makes it easier to satisfy the upward streamer inception criterion for the polar conductor. Although the upward streamer incepts from the grounded wire, the polar conductor

    can still be attached by the primary discharge taking into account the effect of dc voltage.

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTThe authors wish to thank all of the anonymous reviewers,

    whose comments assisted in improving the clarity of the paper.

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