Lightning Detection System for Wind Turbines Using a Large-Diameter Rogowski Coil
Volume 10, Issue 1, Page No 1-6, 2025
Author’s Name: Sarawuth Pramualsingha, Kazuo Yamamoto, RikutoTanaka
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Fraunhofer-Institut f¨ur Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS, System Quality Center (SQC), Critical Systems Engineering, Berlin, 10589, Germany
a)whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sarawuth.pr@kmitl.ac.th
Adv. Sci. Technol. Eng. Syst. J. 10(1), 1-6 (2025); 
  DOI: 10.25046/aj100101
Keywords: Lightning detection, wind turbines, large-diameter Rogowski coil, wideband integrator, high-current measurement
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A lightning detection system based on a large-diameter Rogowski coil and an analog integrator was developed for wind turbine applications and is presented in this paper. To accurately detect lightning current, the Rogowski coil was designed with a lower cutoff frequency of 0.1 Hz. The analog integrator, comprising an inverting active integrator, and an amplifier, was used to restore the original waveform of the lightning current. Tests were conducted to verify the bandwidth of the system using alternating current, damped sinusoidal current, and a rectangular pulse. The system demonstrated a bandwidth of 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz, which is within the standard acceptable range. This lightning detection system offers a significantly lower cost compared to commercial alternatives, making it highly suitable for practical applications.
Received: 15 March 2024 Â Revised: 31 December 2024 Accepted: 01 January 2025 Â Online: 16 January 2025
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