BPCL, India's second largest oil company, has extensive storage tanks on the west coast of India. Protecting them is particularly challenging due to monsoons, high lightning density and the corrosive environment near the sea. The risk of a direct lightning strike is extremely high, but a lightning protection system with air-termination rods is impossible due to the size of the tanks.

The solution here was a made-to-measure protection concept with lightning protection masts and an overhead line system. This provides optimum protection for the facilities and the people there.

The hybrid power plant pilot project in Prenzlau forms the highest point in the otherwise relatively flat countryside. This makes it a target for lightning. As the entire interior of the hall is classified as an Ex zone, conventional lightning protection would not suffice here.

The protection concept selected therefore comprises an isolated air-termination system erected at a distance from the structures and installations.

Europe's most important oil pipeline uses an energy recovery plant which produces about 12% of the Austrian TAL pump stations' energy consumption.
The plant is extremely vulnerable to lightning strikes due to its location in the mountains, where the ground is stony and the soil resistivity poor. Therefore, a holistic view was taken of the lightning protection and the protection of the sensitive terminal devices.

The lightning protection concept comprises isolated external lightning protection using HVI technology, a closed meshed earthing system, meshed equipotential bonding and surge protection for the power supply, measuring, control and regulation (MSR) technology, and the telecontrol system.

bayernets GmbH in Munich transmits natural gas via a 1,412 km long high-pressure pipeline network in Bavaria. With a network area of 32,000 km², the company is one of the largest network operators in Germany. As part of the gas network development plan, the MONACO natural gas pipeline will increase the security of supply in the south of Germany and Austria whilst also improving network stability and flexibility. The underground pipeline with a total length of about 87 km runs from the German-Austrian border in Burghausen to Finsing near Munich. There the natural gas is taken from the high-pressure network at the “Finsing 2” transfer station and fed into the downstream supply network at reduced pressure.

Open Grid Europe GmbH (OGE) is Germany’s leading natural gas transmitter with a gas pipeline network of roughly 12,000 km. One of the most important hubs in the natural gas grid is the OGE compressor station in Werne: here 13 pipelines come together from different directions.

Open Grid Europe relies on DEHN’s 3D planning service to integrate the lightning protection concept in the complex architecture of the site (incl. ex areas!). This guarantees the efficient configuration of air-termination devices under consideration of all parts of the facility.

As the operator, GASCADE Gastransport GmbH is responsible for the safe and reliable operation of the natural gas receiving station in Lubmin near Greifswald.

All possible risks were assessed and economically viable lightning and surge protection measures determined as part of a risk analysis in compliance with IEC 62305-2. Conducted interference impulse could be led in from the outside via the many interfaces and cause considerable damage to the PCS.