The client is a newly established oil depot in 2020, whose main business scope includes wholesale and warehousing of finished oil products. Petroleum and its derivative products are volatile, flammable, and explosive. During their production, processing, storage, and transportation, if they are struck by lightning, they often cause explosions and fires, causing significant casualties and property losses. Lightning protection devices are also indispensable throughout the entire oil depot, using the 3.0 lightning warning system.
The harm of lightning to the petroleum and petrochemical industry is mainly reflected in three aspects. One is safety accidents such as oil depot fires or personal injuries caused by lightning; The second is that lightning strikes cause power interruption, leading to production process interruption, measurement failure, and other production accidents; The third issue is the ineffective shutdown caused by excessive defense against lightning, which affects work efficiency.
Multiple studies have shown that lightning strikes are the largest source of fire in oil depot fires. The Swedish SP Research Institute investigated 480 oil depot fires between 1951 and 2003, with 1/3 being caused by lightning strikes. Building a safe and effective lightning warning system is one of the effective means to reduce safety accidents, production accidents, and production efficiency losses caused by lightning.
The oil depot uses a lightning warning system, which has been discussed for a long time between our company and the customer. We have chosen 3.0 lightning warning system for the customer. The system can issue a lightning warning response 30 minutes in advance, providing sufficient time for monitoring personnel to evacuate and avoid danger. And the detection range of the system reaches 20km, real-time monitoring of atmospheric electric field changes, alarm before the arrival of lightning, and timely control of lightning activities, easily avoiding lightning hazards.
The 3.0 Lightning Warning System is an intelligent lightning protection monitoring and warning system with real-time atmospheric electric field monitoring and lightning approaching alarm functions. Accurate yellow, orange, and red level three lightning warning can be sent 5 to 30 minutes in advance, allowing users to take lightning protection measures in advance and avoid potential loss of life and property. The 3.0 lightning warning system is an important equipment used for active lightning protection, applied in important places such as golf courses, oil depots, refineries, airports, helicopter aprons, and electricity.