Composite tower is one of development directions to line tower structure
and there are several kinds of design patterns for its lightning protection such as not setting up lightning shield line
lightning shield line not grounded
segmented ground through discharging tower
suspended ground along transmission line direction. Its design patterns have direct impact on anti-lightning performance of transmission line. And so
several design patterns for lightning protection by ATP/ATPdraw to 110 kV composite tower transmission line from the point of lightning protection are simulated
and the lightning withstand level and the rate of lightning trip-out are analyzed. The simulation results show that the integrated lightning protection effect of suspended ground along transmission line direction is the best in all these lightning protection design patterns to 110 kV composite tower transmission line. Research results in this paper can provide references and basis to lightning protection design of composite tower transmission line.