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Thermal Characteristics of Aluminum Conductor Composite Core

Author(s): Zhihui Cheng
Source: Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 83: Advances in Sustainable Port and
Ocean Engineering (FALL 2018), pp. 356-358
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Thermal Characteristics of Aluminum Conductor Composite

Core
Zhihui Cheng

School of Civil Engeneering and Architecture

Northeast Electric Power University
Jilin 132012, China www.cerf-jcr.org
1185468361@qq.com

ABSTRACT

Cheng, Z., 2018. Thermal characteristics of aluminum conductor composite core. In: Liu, Z.L. and Mi, C.
(eds.), Advances in Sustainable Port and Ocean Engineering. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No.
83, pp. 356–358. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.

In this paper, the thermal characteristics of aluminum conductor composite core (ACCC) are studied with
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the example of ACCC315/40 conductor.The simulation software is used to simulate the relationship between
the temperature and the temperature of the conductor under the condition of ACCC, and the influence of the
wind speed on the surface temperature of the wire. The results show that with the increasing of numerical
operation line current, wire surface temperature will increase, when the environment temperature changes, the
temperature of wire will change the wind speed in the range of 0-1m/s, the wire surface temperature drop more
largely, as the wind speed increases, the wire surface temperature drops greatly. The research of this paper
provides the basis for the real-time monitoring of the conductor.

ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS: Aluminum conductor composite core, thermal characteristics, conductor
temperature, wind speed.

INTRODUCTION temperature, wind speed, time; the simulation included

Aluminum Conductor Composite Core as a new type wire
for research and development in recent years, with its good
heat resistance and low sag characteristics in a certain extent,
increased the safety of the line performance, use of ACCC instead
of steel core aluminum stranded wire has become a new trend
in the transmission line construction, when the temperature of
the conductor is the same, carrying capacity of ACCC is more
valuable than that of ASCR. For line capacity expansion project,
ACCC is the best choice, which not only can not dismantle the
original lines, can also increase the line current, reducing the
circuit cost greatly (Chen et al., 2014; Wu, 2011; Xie, 2011).
This paper chose ACCC315/40 wires, through the simulation
and experimental analysis of thermal characteristics of the wire,
making the simulation analysis of current conductor temperature
under different working conditions; and the surface temperature of
the conductor under different wind speed conditions; the surface
temperature of the conductor is verified through the test under the
working condition of naturalconvection (Liang, 2013; Liu et al.,
2013; Zhang, Zhou, and Yu, 2014).
THE THERMAL CHARATERISTICS OF THE
CONDUCTOR ARE ANALYZED
In order to study thermal characteristics of ACCC, simulation
model is established by ANSYS finite element software to carry
on the research and analysis by introducing the environment
DOI: 10.2112/SI83-058.1 received 11 November 2017; accepted in
revision 22 February 2018.
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material, the establishment of the model, the definition of grid
division, imposing of boundary conditions, and post-processing
(Chucheepsakul, 2017; Fu and Liu, 2017; Hao and Huang, 2015;
Klaycham, Athisaku, and Chucheepsakul, 2017; Li, Han, and
Wei, 2018; Liu, 2017; Mi et al., 2016; Xu, 2016; Zhao et al.,
2015).
The researching wire type chosen for this article is ACCC315/40,
which is shown in Table 1.
The Temperature of the Wire under Different Current
Conditions
For the simulation of ACCC315/40 years flow numerical,
Considering the symmetry of the model and convenience of
calculation, the model from left to right is carbon fiber composite
core wire, soft aluminum layer and air layer. The core radius is
0.0035 m, the aluminum layer is 0.0109 m, and the air space
is 0.327 m. The gridding division of analysis model is by free
division, and the core bar and aluminum layer are divided into two
categories. The heat rate of the aluminum layer can be transformed
by the Formula (1) :
I 2R 
Q (1)
SL
In this case, I is the current of a conductor; S is the cross-
sectional area of the conductor’s heat.
For ACCC conductor, soft resistivity of aluminum stranded
wire is greater than that of core resistivity, and because of ACCC
conductor excluding iron materials, there is no magnetic loss

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Table 1.  ACCC315/40 parameter table. wind speed of 0.1 m/s, 0.5 m/s, 1 m/s, and the wire temperature
distribution cloud graph is shown in Table 3.
The It can be seen from the Table 2, the conductor temperature is
Conductor
Composite Aluminum Profile Direct Current
Outside strongly influenced by wind speed, when the wind speed within
Core Section Resistance
Diameter the range of 0 to 0.5 m/s, the temperature of the conductor drops
Diameter
quickly compared with the natural convection conditions. When
7.0 21.8 314.6 0.0887
the wind speed is greater or equal to 1 m/s, the influence to
conductor temperature gradually slow down, and the wind speed
Table 2.  555A, 720A, 890A corresponding temperature nephogram. increases gradually, the conductor temperature tend to be stable.

Electricity Temperature of Wire EXPERIMENT TO ANALYZE THE THERMAL

555A 332.1 CHARACTERISTICS OF WIRE
The tested wire is 50 meters long, connected by hydraulic
720A 351.8
pressure, and there is no apparent damage to the surface of
890A 371.5 the wire. At the same time, in order to prevent tensile machine
electrically charged, a piece of insulator is fixed on both ends
of the wire respectively and the other end is fixed on the tensile
machine. 20%RTS is imposed on conductor, the wire overhangs
under the weight.

Table 3.  The influence of different wind speed on the surface temperature
of wire.

Wind Temperature of Wire

0.1 334.2
0.2 327.0
0.5 318.6
1.0 313.3

Figure 1.  Temperature and time variation curve of conductor.

and eddy current loss caused by steel wire material. So ACCC

is different from other wires in calculation, just considering the
effect of skin effect. Under the influence of the skin effect, it is
believed that the electric current is not passed in the wire core,
which is 0 .
When the temperature of the environment is 290 k, the heat rate
of 555 A, 720 A and 890 A are applied respectively, and the results
are shown in Table 2.
As you can see in Table 2, the higher the current of the wire,
the higher the temperature of the wire. Comparing with 300/40 Figure 2.  Copper connection diagram.
conductor LGJ, the current value of the wire ASCR is for 628A
under the urface temperature of 353 k, ACCC’s current value is
greater than ASCR’s, therefore, the safety of ACCC is higher at
run time with higher heat resistance.
As shown in Figure 1, the curve of conductor’s temperature
changing with time in 632 A, what can be seen from the diagram
is along with the increase of the time, the conductor temperature
also will increase with a linear change. Therefore, the temperature
real-time monitoring of wire is necessary to prevent accidents due
to conductor surface overheating.

The Temperature of the Wire under Different Wind Speed

Conditions
In the same case of wire data, different wind speeds are applied
to the surface of the wire to explore the temperature change of the
Figure 3.  Low voltage high current transformer.
conductor . The current of 700 A is applied to the wire with the

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Table 4.  ACCC temperature and corresponding ampacity.
Conductor Temperature Carrying Capacity
29.4 200
32.5 250
35.1 300
38.6 350
43.2 400
48.6 450
54.3 500
60.4 550
67.1 600
72.1 650
77.8 700
86.5 750
93,.7 820
100.2 895
70 * 6 mm copper platoons are chosen (as shown in Figure 1) to
respectively connect the low voltage large current transformer (as
shown in Figure 2) and drainage plate assorted with strain clamp,
constituting a loop to impose low voltage large current. The test
connection schematic is shown as Figure 3.
Four temperature measuring points are set on the conductor
surface, taking the average as the average temperature of the
conductor, and current value of the wire is measured with ampere
meters. Starting at room temperature, the temperature of the wire
is risen gradually until 120ºC; each temperature stabilizes for 1.5
hours The test values are shown in Table 3.
According to the data in Table 4, the conductor temperature
rises along with the increase of current. Conductor temperature
is basically the same compared with the simulation analysis.
Therefore, when running, the wires can provide data for real-time
monitoring to prevent the wire current is too large, leading to
accident because of high conductor temperature .
CONCLUSIONS
The thermal characteristics of ACCC are studied in this paper,
and the effect of temperature on the wire under the conditions of
natural convection and forced convection is obtained.
(1) Under the natural convection condition, through the
comparison of the simulation analysis and experimental data,
the conductor temperature rises with the increase of load flow.
In actual operation, it is necessary to monitor the conductor
temperature of wires to prevent the accident caused by increase of
conductor temperature because of too large electric current.
(2) Under the working condition of forced convection, with
the increase of wind speed, the influence on the conductor
temperature is different. when the wind speed is within the range
of 0 to 0.5 m/s, the conductor temperature drop quickly; when the
wind speed is greater than 1 m/s, surface temperature of wires
decline more slowly, basically the same.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by the Special project of provincial
economic structure strategy adjustment of Jilin Province
(2015N026): Aluminum Conductor Composite Core running
characteristic test, research and development platform
construction.
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