Conference Agenda

2:00pm - 2:15pm

High-Speed Imaging and Sensitive Current Detection of Switching Impulse Discharges

Marcelo Arcanjo¹, Koen Tolkamp², Oscar van der Velde¹, Guillem Tobella³, Claudia Navas³, Miguel Guimaraes⁴, Joan Montanya¹

¹Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain; ²Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands; ³Labelec Lightning Labs, Spain; ⁴Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais, Brazil

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Development of a 3D fractal-based model for simulating positive streamer flashover of short air gaps

Nikolaos Karanikiotis, Pantelis Mikropoulos, Pavlos Samaras, Alexios Ioannidis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Observations of the Breakdown Voltage and Corona Emission from Different Configurations of a Spiked Lightning Air Terminal

Nishanth Parus, Chandima Gomes, Carina Schumann

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

2:45pm - 3:00pm

Surface dielectric strength of insulating stand-offs of electrically insulated LPS under standard lightning impulse voltages

Petros Tsouris¹, Pavlos Samaras¹, Pantelis Mikropoulos¹, Thomas Tsovilis¹, Nikolaos Kokkinos²

¹Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; ²ELEMKO S.A

3:00pm - 3:15pm

Trapping of Lightning Energy in Metal Parts on A Human Body

Chandima Gomes

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

3:15pm - 3:30pm

Influence of Spatial Position of Nearby Lightning on Corona Onset in Floating Electrodes

Didace Habumugisha¹, Chandima Gomes², Sechaba Bareetseng³

¹University of the Witwatersrand; ²University of the Witwatersrand; ³Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa