Discussion on "Experimental Demonstration of the Effectiveness of an Early Streamer Emission Air Terminal versus a Franklin Rod" [and Reply]

Laurent Pecastaing (1) , Thierry Reess (1) , Antoine Silvestre de Ferron (1) , S. Souakri , E. Smycz , A. Skopec , C. Stec , F.A.M. Rizk

1 SIAME - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Ingénieur Appliquées à la Mécanique et au génie Electrique

The paper [1] reports on comparative experiments on a triggered-gap electrode used as an early streamer emission air terminal, with some equivalent circuit analysis of the triggering circuit and simplified electric field calculations.

Keywords: early streamer emission air terminal; electron field emission; equivalent circuit analysis; equivalent circuits; Franklin rod; simplified electric field calculations; trigger circuits; triggered-gap electrode; triggering circuit

Domains: Physics [physics]

Laurent Pecastaing, Thierry Reess, Antoine Silvestre de Ferron, S. Souakri, E. Smycz, et al.. Discussion on "Experimental Demonstration of the Effectiveness of an Early Streamer Emission Air Terminal versus a Franklin Rod" [and Reply]. IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 2016, 23 (1), pp.605-608. ⟨10.1109/TDEI.2015.005764⟩. ⟨hal-02153363⟩