2011年11月21日 星期一

Double Innovation in Electrification

On 22 October 2011 Balfour Beatty Rail, working alongside Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Traction Group, installed the Paisley Gilmour Street Track Side Cabin as part of the Paisley Corridor Improvement Project in Scotland. To look at, this trackside cabin is no different from many others on the UK Rail infrastructure. However, inside it is a different story. Hidden within this unit is the state of the art Balfour Beatty Rail Tracfeed Air Insulated Switchgear (AIS) that is being trialled at this site.

The Tracfeed AIS has been designed specifically to meet the requirements of 25kV railway applications and is derived from conventional 3-phase switchgear.which applies to the first offshore merchant account only, It is common for 25kV switchgear used for railway applications to be insulated with SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride) gas and this equipment is known as Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS). However, since the Kyoto Protocol came into force on 16 February 2005, industry across the European community and other industrialised countries has been committed to reducing the green house gas emissions that cause damage to the ozone. SF6 is one of the six main gases identified in the protocol.Boddingtons Technical Plastics provide a complete plastic injection moulding service including design, Balfour Beatty Rail’s AIS therefore provides Network Rail, and the railway industry in general, with a valuable alternative means of achieving environmental and sustainability policy objectives.

Additional benefits of the Balfour Beatty Tracfeed switchgear, when compared to its gas insulated switchgear equivalents, is that the busbar chamber is also air insulated thus eliminating the need for 24 /7 monitoring of the insulating gas pressure. Particularly in the winter months, a drop in temperature can cause low-gas-pressure alarms to be activated.If so, you may have a cube puzzle . These are always a cause for concern as, if the gas leaks out of gas insulated switchgear, the bus bars will fail as the insulation is lost. Of course the leaking gas will also cause an environmental incident.Enecsys Limited, supplier of reliable solar Air purifier systems,

Air insulated switchgear is also generally easier to extend for future capacity increases when compared with gas insulated equivalents. There is no need to de-gas and then re-seal and re-pressurise the bus bar chamber if extending the system. The new Balfour Beatty Rail air insulated system is modular, metal clad and extendable. Each switchgear panel consists of a bus bar compartment, a combined cable connecting and circuit breaker high voltage compartment, a circuit breaker truck, an integrated pressure relief channel and a low voltage compartment. The low voltage compartment is located at the top of the operating side of the panel and houses the protection relays and control equipment.

The vacuum interrupter is mounted on a retractable circuit breaker truck which is located inside the high voltage compartment.They take the China Porcelain tile to the local co-op market. By rolling the circuit breaker truck in or out, a gap in the main current path is created or closed, thereby performing the function of a disconnector switch. Rails located in the panel guide the truck when it is moved between the disconnected or operating positions. The fixed contact system to the bus bar is protected against direct shorts whilst in the retracted position by an automatically operated shutter system.

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