BIM Design of Lightning Protection and Grounding Systems by ZANDZ

BIM Design of Lightning Protection and Grounding Systems by ZANDZ

Dear friends! We have finished the preparation for BIM design of lightning protection and grounding systems. The ZANDZ Technical Center is now ready to calculate solutions for lightning protection and grounding and apply it to your BIM model of the building, free of charge. To do this, send us the IFC file and the Terms of Reference to info@zandz.com. We will contact you to clarify details. ...

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Example Calculation for Lightning Protection System for an Electrical Signal Tower

Example Calculation for Lightning Protection System for an Electrical Signal Tower

The ZANDZ Technical Center has received a request to calculate the lightning protection system for the electrical signal tower. Let us further consider a solution proposed by our specialists.

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Lightning Protection and Grounding of a Hatchery in the Ryazan Region

Lightning Protection and Grounding of a Hatchery in the Ryazan Region

The ZANDZ Technical Center has received a request to calculate the lightning protection and grounding system for the hatchery located in the Ryazan Region. Let us consider the proposed solution.

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Videos of Webinars Held in April 2021

Videos of Webinars Held in April 2021

ЕВРОПЕЙСКИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ И СТАНДАРТЫ защиты линий переменного тока от перенапряжения - EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDS for AC Power Lines Surge Protection Алгоритм создания любых семейств в Revit - Algorithm to create any family in Revit 1. Анализ (эскиз) - 1. Analysis (sketch) 2. ...

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Lightning Protection and Grounding for a Gas Engine Generator

Lightning Protection and Grounding for a Gas Engine Generator

When designing generators, a particular attention is paid to electrical safety systems such as grounding and lightning protection. The ZANDZ Technical Center has received a request to calculate the lightning protection and grounding systems for the gas engine generator. Let us consider the proposed solution.

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Example Calculation of Lightning Protection System for a Chemical Analysis Laboratory

Example Calculation of Lightning Protection System for a Chemical Analysis Laboratory

The ZANDZ Technical Center has received a request to calculate the lightning protection system for a chemical analysis laboratory located in the European part of Russia. Let's consider the solution offered by our specialists.

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Webinar titled "Creating Simple MEP Families in Autodesk Revit From Scratch"

Создание простых MEP семейств в Autodesk Revit с нуля - Creating Simple MEP Families in Autodesk Revit From Scratch Parameter families are a base for digital information model. A simple and easy-to-understand algorithm for the creation of engineering families in Autodesk Revit allows optimizing your processes and then developing more complex model elements thus ...

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Design of Lightning Protection and Grounding System for A Closed Stationary Gas Control Unit

Design of Lightning Protection and Grounding System for A Closed Stationary Gas Control Unit

We often receive tasks to calculate lightning protection system for a gas control unit (GCU). According to RD 34.21.122-87, GCU is classified as Category II in terms of lightning protection and must be protected from direct lightning strikes, its secondary effects and external high voltages through on-ground (above-ground) metal utilities. Protection zone B is selected in line with item 2 of ...

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Grounding for Medical Equipment

Grounding for Medical Equipment

Since the times when electrical devices and complex equipment have started to be used in medicine, the need to develop safety measures both for patients and doctors and equipment has appeared.

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Functional Grounding Device for a Plasma Cutting Machine in the Moscow Region

Functional Grounding Device for a Plasma Cutting Machine in the Moscow Region

To arrange the workplace and provide safe operation of the plasma cutting machine by the personnel, you have to make a series of preparations. An essential issue is the presence of a functional grounding device meeting several requirements. Further, we are going to consider which requirements have to be taken into account and what solution was offered by the ZANDZ Technical Center. Initial data: ...

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Court has ordered to oblige the District Administration to provide lightning protection systems for secondary schools

Court has ordered to oblige the District Administration to provide lightning protection systems for secondary schools

The lightning protection for secondary schools is a very important issue since it is, first of all, about the safety of the children. However, not all officials are agree with it, and sometimes, we have to persuade them via a court. Thus, on April 1, the Belovsky District Court of the Kursk Region has issued an order for the Administration of the Belovsky District to allocate funds for the ...

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Lightning Protection of Ammonia Compressor Workshop at the Meat Processing Plant

Lightning Protection of Ammonia Compressor Workshop at the Meat Processing Plant

When the equipment is installed on the roof, it is affected to lightning strike; therefore, you have to provide the lightning protection system. The ZANDZ Technical Center has received a request to calculate the lightning protection system for the ammonia compressor workshop for the meat processing plant located in the European part of Russia.

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Webinar

Webinar "European Technologies and Standards for AC Power Lines Surge Protection"

Европейские технологии и стандарты защиты линий переменного тока от перенапряжения - European Technologies and Standards for AC Power Lines Surge Protection Christian Macanda, Head of Standardization and Production of the French company Citel and member of the Association of Standardization of France AFNOR, has prepared a ...

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Lightning Impact on Meerkat Population in South Africa

Lightning Impact on Meerkat Population in South Africa

Well-known English scientist Van Der Pelt had been tracking the dynamics in the population of meerkats in South Africa for 18 years. The target research regions included the endemic areas for these animals, i.e. deserts Namib and Kalahari. During the observations, the researcher tried to confirm the impact of various natural factors on the changes in the meerkat population in South Africa, ...

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Lightning Protection and Grounding of a Museum in the Moscow Region

Lightning Protection and Grounding of a Museum in the Moscow Region

During the reconstruction or overhaul of building and structures, we need to upgrade or replace the lightning protection and grounding systems. The ZANDZ Technical Center has received a request to calculate the lightning protection and grounding system for the museum in the Moscow Region. Let's consider the proposed solution for this task. Initial data: Facility: museum building; AP drawings; ...

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Potential of active impacts on the lightning

Potential of active impacts on the lightning

Длина встречного лидера, м - Opposed leader length, m Длительность импульса, мкс - Pulse duration, μs Высота стержня 30 м - Rod height 30 m Амплитуда импульса 5 МВ - Pulse amplitude 5 MV A positive answer to the question on the possibility to control lightning does not cause any doubts. Using Russian pulse current ...

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Rarest Lightnings Captured from the International Space Station

Rarest Lightnings Captured from the International Space Station

What do "blue jet", "elf" and "red sprite" have in common? It appears that all of these strange names designate the phenomena associated with the lightning, which are very difficult to observe from the Earth's surface. To perform research of various atmospheric phenomena, in 2018, a set of optical cameras, photometers, and X-ray and gamma radiation detectors were installed at the International ...

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Lightning Protection of a Water Tower in the Siberian Federal District

Lightning Protection of a Water Tower in the Siberian Federal District

A water tower seems to be a facility that, from the first sight, is not necessary to protect against lightning. The lightning protection is required not to protect the tower itself but to protect the equipment in the pumping room, with which a metal coupling exists along pipes or through the water. If a water tower is not protected against lightning, then the lightning current will go to the pumps along the pipeline and cause their failure.

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Videos of Webinars Held in the First Quarter of 2021

Videos of Webinars Held in the First Quarter of 2021

ОНЛАЙН РАСЧЕТ МОЛНИЕЩАШИТЫ И ЗАЗЕМЛЕНИЯ РВС - ONLINE CALCULATION OF LIGHTNING PROTECTION AND GROUNDING OF A VERTICAL STEEL RESERVOIR (VSR) КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ ИЗМЕРЕНИЯ В ПРАКТИЧЕСКОЙ МОЛНИЕЗАЩИТЫ - KEY MEASUREMENTS IN PRACTICAL LIGHTNING PROTECTION We offer you to watch videos of webinars held in the first quarter of 2021. ...

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Laser Beam Effects of Electrical Discharges

Laser Beam Effects of Electrical Discharges

In our website, we sometimes publish interesting articles associated with the lightning. They are often written by scientists, researchers, and other science-related people. Our new publication is a great addition to this collection. It was created with the participation of scientists from Australia, Qatar, the USA and is dedicated to the most recent (October 2020) research of the possibility to ...

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Lightning Protection System for Observatory Located on Pip Ivan Mountain Using GALMAR Equipment

Lightning Protection System for Observatory Located on Pip Ivan Mountain Using GALMAR Equipment

The astronomy and meteorology station on Pip Ivan Chornohora (the Carpathians) built by the Polish people in 1938 was not almost operated according to its intended purpose. For long time after the Second World War, there were only bare walls, and sometimes the building was used as a tourist shelter. Plans to reinstate the facility have regularly occurred since 1996. There was an information that ...

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Lightning Protection of a Car Assembly Workshop

Lightning Protection of a Car Assembly Workshop

Sometimes, we have to protect really large facilities against lightning. A car assembly workshop having a total area over 50,000 sq. m was one of them. Although the grid can be installed on buildings with flat roofs, it does not provide protection against direct lightning strike. The customer did not like this lightning protection method, therefore, lightning rods were the only option.

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Rolling Sphere Method: Pros and Cons

Rolling Sphere Method: Pros and Cons

Зона защиты - Protection zone The method has been a subject of detailed analysis during the webinars and in special articles. However, we have to repeat major considerations once again trying to persuade the designers to stop rolling an easily rolling sphere. Today, it is related to very active attempts to integrate the calculation method to the Russian lightning protection practice ...

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ZANDZ ZZ-6t and ZZ-6s: Grounding Sets for Single-Family Houses

ZANDZ ZZ-6t and ZZ-6s: Grounding Sets for Single-Family Houses

ZANDZ ZZ-6t and ZZ-6s grounding sets are intentionally designed to perform high-quality grounding for electrical equipment in a single-family house using a hammer drill or a jackhammer. With them, you can make grounding as a single 6 m rod, which is mostly sufficient for electrical installations in a typical country house without gas boiler and back-up power supply. The sets are similar in their ...

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Lightning Protection for 110 kV Electrical Substation

Lightning Protection for 110 kV Electrical Substation

We have received a task to calculate the lightning protection for the 100 kV electrical substation with a closed switchgear (CSW). It is technically easier to protect it against lightning than the substation with an open switchgear since it has a smaller footprint, and the entire high-voltage equipment is located in the same building.

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