Alltec Corporation News & Articles
Why Protecting Wind Turbines from Lightning is Critical
News by Alltec Corporation
Tuesday December 29, 2009
Exactly when and where lightning will strike is an unpredictable act of nature. If scientists could calculate the exact location of future lightning, the United States would be able to avoid the $2 billion in annual property damage due to this awesome yet terrifying natural phenomenon. However, the fact that lightning usually strikes the highest point is indisputable. Height, shape and isolation are all leading factors in determining the place where lightning will choose to strike. One of the worst possible courses of action during a storm is to stand under a tree; in fact, this is the number one leading cause of death or injury from lightning strikes. Wind turbines act in a similar manner, as they are the tallest point and sustain a high probability of being struck by lightning. Therefore, it is often not a matter of “if” but “when” a wind turbine will be struck by lightning or experiences other types of overvoltages and currents.
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Commitment to Quality in the Lightning Protection Industry through ISO 9001:2000 Certification
Lightning-Protection by Alltec Corporation
Monday December 15, 2008
Alltec Corporation is pleased to announce the completion of its ISO 9001:2000 certification, which was officially attained December 10th, 2008. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the world’s largest developer and publisher of International Standards, with a network of institutes in 157 countries. ISO standards facilitate trade between countries and often make trade fairer, as well as more secure. ISO standards also ensure desirable characteristics of products and services such as quality, environmental friendliness, safety, reliability, and efficiency. Through Alltec’s achievement the following quality statement was developed:
Customers are the center of our focus and define the quality of our performance, reliability, competitive pricing, on-time delivery, service, proper transactional processing, and continuous improvement efforts. In pursuit of these goals, the Alltec corporate environment is one of personal and corporate growth, empowerment, and freedom to help our customers realize their desired goals. Quality is the responsibility of and success for every employee.
Over the past year Alltec employees have worked diligently to obtain this goal, and plan to use these standards as a framework for the upcoming 2009 business plan. This policy helps provide direction and measurable goals of Alltec’s continuous commitment to quality. Alltec maintains its dedication to providing the best possible services and products to customers around the world.
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Mobile Lightning Protection & Grounding
Lightning-Protection by Alltec Corporation
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Alltec Corporation’s Mobile Lightning Protection and Grounding (MLPG) Systems are designed and manufactured to be employed with metallic masts, towers, and other mobile equipment and temporary structures. Sensitive and expensive electronic sensors, communication antennas, radar, and other rapid deployment devices, require protection from direct lightning strikes, electrostatic, and electromagnetic pulse energy. Alltec Corporation’s MLPG Systems provide charge dissipation terminals and ground electrodes to meet this need. Custom configurations, accessories, and design assistance are available to meet any site description and specification. Call with your application requirements.
Features:
- Created expressly for simple, rapid, and reliable assembly and disassembly.
- MLPG System Charge Dissipation Terminal (CDT) Assemblies may be oriented and adjusted to suit a wide variety of mast mounted equipment, and are available for both offset (side), and straight (top), installation on mobile equipment deployment structures.
- Exclusive charge dissipation features utilizing the Point Discharge Principle for lightning strike mitigation: electrodes break down into corona before streamers can form, thereby lowering accumulated charges and postponing streamer generation. Models are available for both standard and high-risk applications.
- Multiple grounding configurations are available to suit specific cost/performance goals: a robust copper and stainless steel winged ground electrode (shown) for excellent low resistance/impedance earth ground connectivity; stainless steel and copper clad stainless steel electrodes, with steel handles for speedy installation/extraction; and, copper clad stainless steel rods for cost effective multipurpose applications. Custom designs, materials, and exothermically welded connections are available.
- Materials and wire selections to cover every need and application.
- Rugged, wheeled carrying case is optional accessory.
- The entire MLPG System typically requires less than 46” X 12” X 6” stowage space, and weighs less than 30 lbs, supplying portable convenience.
- Requires less than 15 minutes to assemble and install onto typical mobile mast.
- Use with PowerTrip® Transient Voltage Surge Suppression devices for a complete Alltec “Protection Pyramid™”, the Three-Step lightning protection, grounding, and power quality site solution.
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Research Partnership
Research-and-Development by Alltec Corporation
Tuesday January 30, 2007
Alltec Corporation and the National Technical University, “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute,” of Ukraine have signed a memorandum of understanding for research and development in the field of lightning protection and grounding.
The Research & Design Institute Molniya (Lightning) is one of the most renowned satellite institutions of the National Technical University. The institute was formed to provide solutions to the most important nationwide problems in the field of high voltage electro-physics and engineering. Today the institute is both a school and a powerful scientific organization with a unique experimental base, which carries out fundamental and applied research in the development and creation of unique high-voltage devices for scientific and technical purposes.
The institute employs 200 highly qualified staff members, among them five doctors of technical sciences and ten PhDs. The scientific collaborators of the institute published five manuscripts, more than 1000 papers, and obtained more than 500 patents and innovation authorship certificates. In 2001 the experimental units of the institute were entered into the International Test Equipment Register (IEC 61000-4-32).
Together Alltec Corporation and the National Technical University, “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute,” will be researching and developing methods to increase the effectiveness of current technologies as well as establishing experimental methods to test and develop a new generation of products.
We look forward for a long-term and mutually beneficial relationship, while discovering a whole spectrum of facts regarding lightning and its adverse effects on people and third generation electronics.
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TerraStreamer Product Release
Product-Release by Alltec Corporation
Thursday June 30, 2005
TerraStreamer® ESE utilizes advanced electronics to provide structural lightning protection to facilities that would otherwise be difficult or cost prohibitive to protect by conventional means.
TerraStreamer Early Streamer Emitter:
- Available in three models
- High grade stainless steel
- Lightweight and low wind loading
- Tested and certified
- Two Year Warranty
Alltec Corporation is proud to announce the debut of their TerraStreamer® ESE system. It is after extensive research and testing that Alltec introduces a technologically advanced Early Streamer Emitter. TerraStreamer® represents a significant step in lightning protection advancement. Alltec has strived to enclose this technology within a lightweight and unobtrusive high-grade stainless steel housing.
The TerraStreamer® models have been independently tested by Laboratorio Central Oficial De Electrotecnia (LCOE) and certified to UNE 21186 & NFC 17102 standards. Triggering times have verified a protection radius up to 109 meters. All three models are backed by a two-year warranty.
Alltec Corporation has designed a large assortment of mounting hardware and accessories for the TerraStreamer® ESE system that are manufactured from high-grade materials. Custom installation materials are available upon request.
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