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Combining the expertise of a global manufacturer with local proximity centres, Alstom Grid is the best partner
for High Voltage products asset management all along the circuit breaker's lifecycle. With more than 60 years
of worldwide experience dedicated to live tank, dead tank and generator circuit breakers on legacy products,
we provide customers with a full range of services on the three different types of insulating technologies:
minimum oil, air blast and SF6 circuit breakers.
Based on our manufacturing expertise and
time-proven refurbishment experience,
Alstom Grid offers the most cost-effective
and efficient solutions to increase the life
span of your circuit breakers and generator
circuit breakers.
From onsite assessments, periodic inspections, mid-life overhauls through to complete
life-extensions, we can customise the most
appropriate program for your circuit breaker
type, age and ratings.
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Live tank circuit breakers benefit from three-pole application and one
interruption chamber arranged in the insulator, which can be either
porcelain or of a composite material. The enclosure that houses the
contacts is energised. Live Tank design includes three main types:
Air: pneumatic mechanism
Oil: Spring or hydraulic mechanism
SF6: Spring or hydraulic mechanisms
Models: FG1, FL, FX, FXT, GL, H, HGF, HPF, HPGE, S1, S2, S4, PK
Dead tank circuit breaker's contact enclosures are not energised and
are connected to the ground grid. The live parts are located in a metal
tank filled with SF6. The gas plays the role of quenching agent as well
as insulation of the live parts.
Compact SF6
Models: HYpact
Project design
Customer challenge
Circuit breakers have been designed to
optimise the reliability and efficiency of
operating networks. Operators require
efficient solutions to avoid unscheduled
downtime, major failure and the subsequent
penalties.
Condition-based maintenance
Transmission equipment constitutes an important capital investment and is critical to network stability. To prolong assets life and
ensure their reliability, Alstom Grid offers condition-based maintenance.
Customer challenge
Synchronisation
Alstom Grid designed synchronisation relays
for circuit breaker to increase equipment's
reliability. Synchronising circuit breaker for
some operations such as shunt reactor,
capacitor banks are critical. Overvoltage and
over current generated by these operations
can seriously damage the asset and its
neighbouring equipments. To avoid
overvoltage and over current, and to increase
asset life, service teams study the possibility
of installing a RPH relay on your circuit
breaker. The relay will synchronise the circuit
breaker's operations according to network
voltage, avoiding stress to the substation's
equipments.
Customer challenge
Expertise on circuit breaker operations and
SF6 handling are key to avoid errors, accidents.
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SF6 management
According to potential environmental, health and safety impacts of SF6 use, Alstom Grid supports its customers in efficiently
managing SF6 and shares its best handling practices for a permanent reduction in SF6 emissions.
For Alstom Grid, the goal is to offer
customers the most economical and simple
solution for the management of SF6 in their
installed park.
Customer challenge
SF6 makes equipments more resistant to the
effects of pollution and climate and more
reliable over the long-term. The resulting size
reduction allows equipment to fit better with
customers' needs in specific environment
constraints. Operators have the responsibility
to efficiently manage SF6 in order to limit
environmental impacts, as well as health and
safety risks.
Decontamination
SF6 recycling
Renovation
Alstom Grid offers solutions to expand the life
of ageing equipments by replacing worn circuit
breakers, switches, control and protection.
Services experts conduct for example circuit
breaker mid-life overhauling or GCB forklift
upgrade.
Customer challenge
High Voltage substations are key contributors
of the Grid assets value while they are critical
for Grid reliability and availability. After
decades of operations, Grid operators may
foresee risks of increasing failure rate
according to electrical and environmental
stress. They may also address the needs for
evolving power performance or the needs for
standard or technological enhancement.
Modernisation
Modernisation of equipments is a way of
getting benefits of new design and technology
on equipments already in operation as well as
solutions for obsolescence issues on old
equipments. Alstom Grid provides circuit
breaker modernisation, add-on condition
monitoring system allowing optimised asset
management.
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N.B.: To safely set up these operations, SF6 gas contained in the poles must be drained and the effective pressure reduced to 0.03 Mpa (20C). The quality of the recovered gas must be
controlled before being reintroduced into the poles. If the quality does not conform, new gas must be used.
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(1) Mechanical and electrical operations are recorded by counters as close or open, not both
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