Experts from Siemens and RWE will lay a one kilometer underground section of a 380,000 volt transmission line to allow for expansion of Frankfurt Airport. This will be the first commercial installation of a gas-insulated underground power line, using an aluminum tube to encase the conductor and insulating gas. Construction began in April 2010 with a goal of connecting the new line to a substation by spring 2010. The success of this approach could lead to broader adoption of this underground power line technology.
Experts from Siemens and RWE will lay a one kilometer underground section of a 380,000 volt transmission line to allow for expansion of Frankfurt Airport. This will be the first commercial installation of a gas-insulated underground power line, using an aluminum tube to encase the conductor and insulating gas. Construction began in April 2010 with a goal of connecting the new line to a substation by spring 2010. The success of this approach could lead to broader adoption of this underground power line technology.
Experts from Siemens and RWE will lay a one kilometer underground section of a 380,000 volt transmission line to allow for expansion of Frankfurt Airport. This will be the first commercial installation of a gas-insulated underground power line, using an aluminum tube to encase the conductor and insulating gas. Construction began in April 2010 with a goal of connecting the new line to a substation by spring 2010. The success of this approach could lead to broader adoption of this underground power line technology.
The building of a new runway at Frankfurt Airport means
changes are having to be made to an extra-high voltage transmission line that crosses the planned approach path. Experts from Siemens and the electricity company RWE will therefore lay a one-kilometre-long section of the 380,000-volt line underground. Aluminium has been chosen as the con- ductor material.
This will be the world’s first commercially installed gas-
isolated extra-high voltage line so the companies in the con- sortium had to develop the new technology required.
The current-carrying conductor is enclosed in a casing tube,
with the interspace filled with an insulating gas. The conduc- tor itself is in the form of an aluminium tube. High-purity alu- minium is characterised by excellent electrical conductivity and at the same time is also readily formable – two proper- ties to which particular importance is attached for this spe- cific application.
The go-ahead has now been given for the seven-million-euro
project. Excavators have been digging a 10-metre wide trench for the tube since April. The new transmission line is scheduled to be connected to the Kelsterbach transformer substation in the spring of 2010. Once this approach has proven itself in practice, other transmission lines using this technology will doubtless follow. ______________________________________
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