MODERN LIGHTNING PROTECTION
SYSTEMS FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
NABAROON GOSWAMI
DIRECTOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
EURO ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL
An external lightning protection air terminal’s job The Eurostar has been installed in European and
is to attract the lightning bolt towards it and to Asian continents since 2005 and has not reported a
conduct its current towards the ground. The single failure of its air terminal protection.
French Code NFC 17-102 ( latest update 2011)
has laid down extensive calculations and using
Rolling sphere ball method measured the radius
of protection that can be protected by one air
terminal unit. The Philippines has been using the
early streamer emission (ESE) systems from some
European and Australian manufacturers for
sometime with reasonable success of protection.
The Euro Engineering International , part of the
Euro Engineering ET, headed by Bulgarian
physicist Mr.Hristomir Nikolaev has perfected the
air terminal design and come up with a rather
remarkable upgrade to the air terminal unit. The
basic principle for earths electromagnetic
disturbances are they congregate on a sharp tip
of a conductive surface, hence anything metallic
has an advantage over other conductive surfaces.
Every other lightning air terminal has a single
point for attracting the electromagnetic ions but
the EUROSTAR manufactured by Euro
Engineering has multi-point solution on the
same head air terminal unit. This does mean
multiple points for ions to create a stronger
upward streamer that races towards the
downward streamer. The stronger the better,
technically translates to higher kA (Kilo Ampere)
rating. The Philippines and other countries of
South East Asia record some of the worlds
highest count in thunderstorm days (refer the
isokeraunic map) with unconfirmed reports of
even 10,000 kA to 25,000 kA. These
dangerous figures are surely devastating to
assets and human lives, which is a common
news. The need for better technology is surely
needed for the Philippines now.
In 2019, the (EU) European
Union‘s Intellectual Property
Office (EUIPO) registered the
design of Eurostar as a
patent. This means the
unique design cannot be
copied by any competing
companies in this field.
Record Dated 18/09/2019.
Filing number- 018006617.
The Eurostar is tested at
ICMET-CRAIOVA laboratory
for ∆T (Delta-t) as EARLY
STREAMER EMISSION test in
Photo of Eurostar NFC 17-102. EUROSTAR
ESEATS Model ES 60
repeated the test in 2022.
This is the most critical test
amongst all listed on Figure
C.1, Type test, Page 68 of the
NFC 17-102 (2011).
The protection radius of the ESEATS can be
calculated by using equation
RP = h (2R - h) + L(2R + L), where h >_ 5 mtrs
Level -1 protection to be considered only.
where: h is the height of the ESEATS tip relative to
the surface to be protected [m], R is the striking
distance from the classic Franklin rod, 20 m for LPL
I, 30 m for LPL II, 45 m for LPL III and 60 m for LPL
IV, L is equal to ΔT×10^6 [m], where ΔT is
characteristic of the applied ESEATS.
The Philippines is recording many lightning related
disasters and the time is now right to approve
advanced versions of ESE Lightning Air terminals,
but are the authorities listening?
For more information write to us at
eurostarlightningprotection@gmail.com