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Sebastian EBERT, Horst MEMMER, Andreas WEINLEIN, Gero SCHRDER, Sdkabel GmbH, Mannheim (Germany),
sebastian.ebert@suedkabel.com, horst.memmer@suedkabel.com, andreas.weinlein@suedkabel.com,
gero.schroeder@suedkabel.com
The link pillars had to pass special internal arcing and The interface connection between the OSE top bolt and
short circuit current tests before National Grid approved the busbar (earthing spigot) had to be considered as well
the use of the link pillars in the city. The link pillar has during this project.
been designed as pedestrian model (figure 4).
Additionally as part of the 275 kV cable system design
The cross-bonding design is shown in figure 5. Each both, PD monitoring and a DTS monitoring system via
cable screen has been crossed bonded in each link pillar. fiber optic cables have been installed and commissioned.
The cable conductor has been transposed in each joint
bay entering area (bell mouth). For all activities on site method statements and risk
assessments had to be issued for approval prior to the
work commence.
Furthermore the cable manufacturer has developed a
special earthing design concept for each individual joint bay
in order to achieve a required maximum earthing resistance
of 5 , which has been measured at each joint bay after
installation before and after backfilling with CBS. The size
of each earthing system and the numbers of used earthing
rods with surrounding conductive material had to be
Fig. 5: Earthing design with cross bonding designed individually at each joint bay depend on the
thermal resistivity of the ground material (figure 14).
Six pieces of factory pre-tested and pre-assembled
275 kV compact outdoor plug-in sealing [6] ends were The joint type is three piece composite design, known
installed as outdoor terminations (figures 6, 7): from [3, 4, 5] which passed both, additional mechanical
load tests and water immersion tests of the corrosion
protection system according NGTS standards.
In total 14 joint bays had to be designed and installed with A general cable pulling schematic drawing is shown in
a number of 42 cross bonding joints and associated figure 11 which shows the position of drum stand, winch
equipment. During each installation of the EHV cable and main rollers. Ground loading tests had to be carried at
accessories hold points were implemented as an activity each joint by prior to drum offloading.
of quality assurance by the cable manufacturer and the
National Grid Alliance West.
earthed working method at the sealing ends, the wrapped around in order to avoid a contact with the
conductor and the screen had to be earthed at all times screen and the at this moment isolated conductor at the
(figure 12). For an isolated working procedure, a same time with the hands of the workers.
combination of at least 2 isolation barriers between man
and electrically conductive parts of the cable system or
installation scaffold had to be used (figure 13). The
scaffolding had to be earthed every 5 m.