Industries
Proactively manage lightning and thunderstorm risks for all activities on your industrial site.
Your requirements
Chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agri-food, automotive, aeronautics, wood & paper, arms, mining, data centers… For many fields of industry, it is essential to manage lightning and thunderstorm risks properly on production sites.
Some sites produce or store particularly hazardous materials, such as the Seveso-classified sites in Europe.
For others, part of their activities take place outdoors, or include automated processes whose continuity is essential.
All these factors generate exposure to lightning risk, which needs to be addressed both in advance during construction and throughout its operational use and maintenance.
You are looking for reliable information and decision-making aid tools to:
- design and correctly size lightning protection systems for your installations,
- ensure the safety of your teams working outdoors,
- maximize production at your plants by avoiding disruptions and stoppages, in particular by starting up a standalone electrical source at the right time,
- inspect your equipment likely to have been damaged by lightning before it becomes worse,
- be able to give your insurance company proof of lightning damage.
Discover how we support industries:
All our solutions tailored to your requirements
Evaluate your exposure to thunderstorms and lightning
Analyze your risks and adapt your means of prevention and protection.
Be alerted to the arrival and end of a thunderstorm
Safeguard people and infrastructures, adapt your operations.
Monitor live thunderstorms and lightning
Optimize your preventive measures and mitigate risks as early as possible.
Check any damage and your installations after a thunderstorm
Determine whether lightning has caused damage and optimize your inspection process.
Integrate lightning information
Feed your own tools with our high-resolution flows and data, in real time or past time.
Training
Develop your skills or your employees’ skills in lightning risk management.
Develop your own lightning service capability
Take advantage of CATS and provide your users with services tailored to their requirements.
What our customers say
To comply with the regulatory framework set out in the lightning decree of 19/07/2011 concerning ICPE sites and the requirements of standard IEC 62793 concerning thunderstorm warning systems, we have been using two services offered by METEORAGE for around twenty years.
We opted for the Lightning Alert solution offered by METEORAGE, which enables us to receive messages indicating the start and end of an alert in the event of lightning activity, based on a pre-determined surveillance zone. These messages are transmitted directly to our prevention department and to all our production units. In this way, all activities that could be at risk are stopped, e.g. loading lorries or wagons or carrying out work on our site. Staff are then moved to sheltered premises for as long as the storm lasts. Once the thunderstorm has passed, an end-of-alert message is issued and operations can resume.
The second solution proposed by METEORAGE is called the Remote Lightning Counter and enables us to receive a map of lightning strikes on the site in order to implement a system for recording lightning activity. This mapping enables us to identify the location of the impact in order to analyse, with the operators, the possible consequences on the installations.
LyonDell Basell France
Global Chemical Industry
The Infrastructure Operations department at HMNB Clyde are responsible for providing electrical supplies to vessels and domestic supplies to the base, as well as conduct cranage operations across the site. The METEORAGE lightning services are used to give pre warning of any incoming lightning activity that will require the site to be transferred to standby electrical supplies (due to the risk to grid supplies) and halt any crane work being conducted on the site. The service is essential to the site to not put nuclear safety at risk by ensuring constant power supplies are provided to vessels, as well as the safety and wellbeing of the staff and service personnel on site by ensuring power is not lost to the site. The reliable prompt alerts and zoning areas ensure the control room staff have ample time to take action and watch any lightning activity move through the UK in real time. We don’t know why we didn’t use this service sooner to be able to safeguard the integrity of the supplies to the site.
Babcock International UK
International Defence company
United Kingdom
DEHN UK relies on METEORAGE to provide accurate, site specific and time sensitive information on lightning flash density and historical lighting activity. This information enables us to provide our clients with risk assessments and three-dimensional designs for their high-risk and critical national infrastructure sites to mitigate away the dangers from lightning and transient events. They have become a valued partner in achieving our goals and serving our global client base.
Dehn UK
Electrical engineering company
United Kingdom
METEORAGE’s lightning strike data is an integral part of the lightning risk analysis of a site and is particularly useful to us for conducting complex studies.
We integrate not only the local lightning strike density, but also analyze the distribution of electrical discharge current, in order to determine if the site is more severely struck by lightning than stipulated by the standard, or to take the seasonality of thunderstorms into account. Thirty years ago, the only data that existed was the number of days a human observer heard thunder.
Today, thanks to METEORAGE, we can obtain detailed data about lightning strikes on a site and learn more about the spatial representation and violence of the phenomenon, which we believe is crucial to protect a site from lightning.
SEFTIM
Design Office specialized in the lightning risk analysis of sensitive sites (nuclear industry, aviation, data centers, explosives, oil & gas etc.)
Key benefits for our users
01 No hardware or software installation.
02Compliance with international standards IEC 62858 and IEC 62793 – In France, with the Order of 19/07/2011 (ICPE).
03High-resolution data from the best current detection technologies.
04A dedicated technical team to ensure your services are up and running 24/7.
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