Category : Technical Articles
Mechanism for AB Cables Handling, Laying & Jointing
Paramount Communications Ltd, part of the Paramount group of companies, is one of India’s leading cables manufacturing company, having the experience of over 5 decades. Over the years the group has widened its product portfolio to cater wide span of industries including power, railways, telecom, construction, defence and space research......
Organomodified Siloxanes
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ms. Kathrin Lehmann* Improved fire protection Flame-retardant plastics can save lives by delaying the spread of a fire, allowing valuable time for firefighting. But flame retardants based on metal hydroxide can achieve their full effect only if the right processing aids are used in the production of the flame-retardant......
High-Speed PlasmaANNEALER for Stainless Steel and Nickel Alloy Wire, Tube and Rope
Plasmait GmbH has introduced a second generation plasma annealer designed for wire, rope and tubes made of stainless steel and nickel alloys and with cross-sections from 20mm2 down to the smallest fine wire sizes. With this new second generation concept Plasmait allowed for a radical increase of continuous annealing speeds......
Selection of EHV Power Cables
Amitava Bose* Abstract In the past, transmission of power was predominantly through overhead lines. It was only in the last leg that underground power cables were used for distribution of power to the load distribution centre’s and consumers in the urban area. High voltage XLPE cable technology has rapidly advanced,......
Fiber optic cables deployed in India’s longest natural gas pipeline
With the world becoming more concerned about climate change, carbon dioxide emissions, and air quality, the focus on natural gas for electricity generation has increased as natural gas emits the least carbon dioxide per unit of energy produced. Natural gas also finds uses across residential, commercial, industrial and transportation sectors,......
MV Power cable reliability trends – Moisture or Peroxide/Dry cure!!
Introduction Initially after the start of the use of XLPE cables, there have been early / premature cable failures which lead the industry wide developments in manufacturing process, materials development and improvements and also material handling. It was identified that the contaminations, protrusion, electrical stress, moisture and/or water were responsible......
Installation of OPGW cables for GETCO’s 220 kV Transmission Line
Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) undertook the challenge of supplying and installing of Optical Ground Wires (OPGW) on GETCO’s old 220kV transmission line in Kangashiyali, Gujarat. Critical attributes and challenges The most critical attribute of this project was that the OPGW was to be strung on 30 years old towers, which......
Nexans’ innovative overhead line technology helps Brazil solve electricity transmission problems in its large cities
July 3, 2012 Nexans has worked with Light, Rio de Janeiro’s electric utility, to develop the innovative Lo-Sag™ conductor to help solve Brazil’s crucial issue of supplying more electricity to its large urban centres*, where the construction of new overhead transmission lines is severely restricted and needs controlled clearance to......
DuPont and cable industry collaboration yields safer, more durable cables
DuPont Vamac ethylene acrylic elastomer (AEM) has been chosen by Huber + Suhner AG, Switzerland, a leading supplier of automotive cable systems, as insulation for battery cables supplied to Fiat, Ford, Jaguar, GM/Holden and Renault, and also as screened insulation cables for hybrid prototypes and the fully electric Tesla Roadster.......