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Press Release11 July 2016Erlangen
Siemens receives order to deliver world’s first 1,100 kV HVDC transformers
Siemens is manufacturing the transformers in
its network of factories led by its transformer plant in Nuremberg, Germany, in
cooperation with its factory for HVDC transformers in Guangzhou, China. The
scope of supply also includes special converter transformers, which can be
connected directly to China’s 1,050 kV AC grid, which worldwide never has been
realized in this way before.
“With our transformers and our technology,
we support a global power grid, called Global Energy Interconnection, GEI,”
said Beatrix Natter, CEO of the Transformers Business Unit within the Siemens
Energy Management Division. “In this way, we are also helping to interconnect
the global ultra high-voltage three-phase grids and ultra high-voltage DC grids
on the 1100 kV DC and 1050 kV AC level.”
Siemens completely redesigned all key
components of its 1,100 kV converter transformers on the basis of many years of
experience constructing HVDC transformers. In manufacturing these kinds of
transformers, the company is entering a new dimension in HVDC technology. The
Changji-Guquan system will transmit power with a transmission voltage of 1,100
kV DC for the first time worldwide. As core components of every HVDC
transmission system, the converter transformers are responsible for converting
the voltage of the three-phase grid into 1,100 kV transmission voltage in order
to supply the converters.
“Our transformers for cutting edge HVDC
transmission project in China have positioned us as the industry leader,”
Natter said. “The innovations being implemented here will benefit our entire
product range.” In developing the 1,100 kV converter transformers, the main
goal was to meet the extraordinarily stringent requirements imposed on the
insulation systems of these high-tech transformers at a voltage level of 1,100
kV. For example, the two valve bushings through which the current flows from
the interior of the transformers into the converters are approximately 19
meters long, due to the necessary insulation clearance in air. With bushings,
the transformers are 37.8 meters long, 5.85 meters high and 5.20 meters wide.
With insulating oil, they weigh 823 metric tons, and the transport weight is
490 metric tons.
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