Abstract
Though anti-lightning receptor was important to avoid lightning damage to wind turbine, the conventional receptor made by typical copper or stainless steel was often melted down. A new developed material for the receptor had very high thermal conductivity. The high thermal conductive material was fabricated with compositing copper and graphite. The composite was sintered by pulsed electric current sintering (PECS) method. The highest thermal conductivity of the composites showed up to 600 Wm−1K−1. The receptor made from the high thermal conductive composite improved satisfactory lightning resistance compared with copper one. The high lightning resistance should be achieved from temperature suppression by thermal diffusion.
