Improvement of wind turbine lightning receptor

• Main Author: Mohammed Ahmed Al-Fakih, Nawfan Mohammed
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: TK2000-2891 Dynamoelectric machinery and auxiliaries. Including generators, motors, transformers
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6952/1/24p%20NAWFAN%20MOHAMMED%20MOHAMMED%20AHMED%20AL-FAKIH.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6952/2/NAWFAN%20MOHAMMED%20MOHAMMED%20AHMED%20AL-FAKIH%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6952/3/NAWFAN%20MOHAMMED%20MOHAMMED%20AHMED%20AL-FAKIH%20WATERMARK.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6952/

Lightning receptor is a device attached to a wind turbine blade that will attract and assist lightning current flow to the ground. However, lightning does not necessarily strike it, instead the other part of the wind turbine is still been stroked by lightning eventually leading to catastrophe...