WO2011001104A2 - Maintenance pour cables electriques par auto-cicatrisation - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
- H02G1/00—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing or dismantling electric cables or lines
- H02G1/16—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing or dismantling electric cables or lines for repairing insulation or armouring of cables
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
- H02G15/00—Cable fittings
- H02G15/20—Cable fittings for cables filled with or surrounded by gas or oil
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- the present invention relates to maintenance of an electrical cable which comprises at least one electrical conductor surrounded by an outer sheath which contains an insulating oil distributed around the electrical conductor, such as a fluid oil cable or an oleostatic cable.
- the oil is introduced into the cable during the manufacturing process of the electric cable or may be injected into the cable after its manufacture from one or more oil tanks.
- the cable may be buried and at least one oil tank, which is connected to the underground cable, may be disposed at at least one end of the cable in an oil pressurization station for example.
- the present invention provides a method of maintaining an electrical cable which comprises at least one electrical conductor surrounded by an outer sheath which contains an insulating oil distributed around the electrical conductor.
- the method consists in adding in the insulating oil of the cable a drying oil which is selected to solidify in contact with the air, in a proportion chosen to seal any leakage of oil which would appear accidentally through the outer sheath.
- the electric cable maintenance method according to the invention makes it possible to repair a lesion of the outer sheath of the cable as soon as it appears without the need for direct intervention by an operator on this sheath itself. In particular no trench access to the cable is necessary.
- Another advantage provided by the invention is that it is not necessary to dig a trench to repair an oil leak to the outside.
- Another advantage of the process in the sense of the invention is that it is compatible with both fluid oil electric cables with oleostatic cables. In addition, these cables may already have been installed prior to the present invention.
- Yet another advantage of the invention is that the method of maintenance of an electric cable is thus very inexpensive and simple to implement because it does not require the use of expensive equipment, cumbersome and complex use , such as a mass spectrometer.
- the method according to the invention is also effective in suppressing an oil leak through an accidental opening of the outer sheath of the cable.
- the drying oil polymerizes in contact with oxygen, typically with ambient air, for example.
- oxygen typically with ambient air, for example.
- the drying oil when the electric cable communicates with at least one oil tank, the drying oil can be added in the insulating oil of the cable via one or more of these oil tanks.
- the maintenance method can therefore be implemented easily in this way, in particular for fluid oil cables and for oleostatic cables, already installed before the implementation of the present invention.
- it may be a buried electrical cable with oil tanks directly accessible at the pressurization stations located at least one end of the cable and optionally along the cable, without detachment necessary.
- a maintenance process according to the invention thus allows to seal a leak without the need to dig a trench to clear the portion of electric cable that has a leak.
- the insulating oil of the cable can be kept under pressure in the outer sheath without modifying the means used at the pressurization stations.
- the pressurization of the cable oil avoids the formation of bubbles that can be the cause of arcing that may damage the electrical insulation of the cable.
- the present invention also provides a self-healing electric cable device that includes:
- the composition of the insulating oil of the cable comprises at least one drying oil.
- the proportion of the drying oil in the composition of the oil of the cable is chosen to seal any leakage of oil through the outer sheath.
- the drying oil may be a vegetable oil such as linseed oil or Chinese wood oil, also called “Tung oil”, or a mixture of Linseed oil and Tung oil.
- the final composition of the cable oil may further comprise a polymerization catalyst.
- a polymerization catalyst promotes and / or accelerates the polymerization of the drying oil. The clogging of the leak is then faster.
- the composition of the catalyst of polymerization may comprise a cobalt salt.
- the cobalt salt promotes the reaction of the drying oil with the oxygen which ensures an effective initiation of the drying oil polymerization reaction and thus allows a faster clogging of an oil leakage through the outer sheath .
- the electric cable may be adapted to withstand a pressure of the cable oil which is between 1 and 20 bar. The cable can then contain the oil of the cable under pressure sufficient to reduce the risk of bubbles, notwithstanding the presence of drying oil in the cable oil.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-section of a fluid oil electric cable (single-phase) to which the invention can be applied,
- FIG. 2 diagrammatically illustrates a particular implementation of a complete connection of a cable according to FIG. 1, and
- FIG. 3 is a cross section of an oleostatic (three-phase) electrical cable to which the invention can be applied.
- an electrical conductor 2 of electrical cable has the shape of a hollow core segmented into several sectors bathed in insulating oil.
- an oil channel 1 is delimited by internal faces of the sectors.
- This channel allows the supply of the cable by an insulating liquid, such as an oil.
- the liquid contains at least one hydrocarbon-based oil, such as a mineral oil, and a drying oil, for example a vegetable oil, added to the mineral oil, and optionally a polymerization catalyst.
- the drying oil can be introduced into the oil of the cable already present in the channel 1 when the cable has been installed before the present invention.
- the oil of the cable to which the drying oil is added is static or set in motion in the oil channel 1, and is subjected to a low pressure, less than 5 bar, preferably included between 1 and 2 bars.
- the electrical conductor 2 may be surrounded by a shielding layer of the core 3.
- the electrical conductor 2 with the shielding of the core 3 possible, is surrounded by tapes of a porous electrical insulating material 4 which are wound in successive layers.
- This insulating material which may be paper for example, is impregnated with a mixture of cable oil and drying oil. This mixture of oils, which is present in the oil channel 1, can circulate to the insulation material 4, passing between the sectors of the electrical conductor 2 and through the possible shielding of the core 3.
- the insulating material 4 which is thus impregnated with the oil mixture is itself surrounded by an outer sheath 5, one of the functions of which is to maintain the oil mixture inside the electric cable.
- Oil tanks 7 and 8 are arranged at the ends of the cable, for example in oil pressurization stations.
- An intermediate oil tank may optionally be arranged along the cable, for example in an intermediate pressurization station.
- the tanks 7 and 8 which are located near the ends of the cable, are connected to a hydraulic circuit of the cable through respective intermediate hydraulic circuits 9 and 10 and respective connection accessories 13 and 14.
- Each connection accessories 13 and 14 separate the hydraulic oil circuit of the cable from the electrical circuit of the cable and ensure the continuity of the hydraulic circuit oil.
- Cable termination modules 17 and 18, commonly referred to as “cable ends”, provide continuity of the electrical circuit of the cable, and isolation of the hydraulic oil circuit of the cable.
- the continuity of the hydraulic oil circuit of the cable is provided by the connection accessories 13 and 14, which are connected to the tanks 7 and 8 respectively via the intermediate hydraulic circuits 9 and 10.
- the tanks 7 and 8 are located in facilities, such as pressurization stations, allowing an operator to easily access these tanks.
- the configuration of the complete connection of a cable which is illustrated in FIG. 2, is in accordance with the installations of fluid oil cables which are already known.
- the cable may leak, for example because of aging of its outer sheath 5.
- the oil mixture then flows through the sheath external 5 towards the outside of the cable, which causes pollution of the environment.
- an oil leak can cause a drop in pressure and cause bubbles to form inside the cable, particularly in the insulating material 4 of a fluid oil cable. Arcs can then occur and cause irreversible damage in the cable.
- the drying oil can be initially added to the cable oil in the absence of leakage.
- the addition of the drying oil to the oil of the cable then produces a clogging of the leak as soon as it appears.
- the drying oil polymerizes in contact with the oxygen, typically the ambient air that is present outside the cable at the location of the leak. The clogging that is obtained is particularly early.
- the drying oil is added to the oil of the cable in the oil tanks 7, 8, when the leak is detected. Indeed, if an oil leak occurs, this leak is detected by noting a drop in oil level in at least one of the tanks 7 and 8. The leak is then clogged by the polymerization of the drying oil. without additional intervention by an operator, other than the addition of drying oil in the tank.
- the diffusion of the drying oil into the oil of the cable where the leak occurs can be rapid when the oil of the cable is set in motion in the oil channel 1. For a fluid oil cable said "circulating oil, the cable oil is permanently circulated in the oil channel 1.
- the oil of the cable can be set oscillating to go and return to the oil channel 1 by alternately increasing the pressure of the oil in a station of pressurizing at one end of the cable and decreasing it alternately in the pressurization station at the other end of the cable.
- the diffusion rate of the drying oil in the oil of the cable is increased and the clogging of the leak by polymerization of the drying oil is faster.
- the invention applies to any cable having at least one electrical conductor and an outer sheath which is disposed around the electrical conductor and which contains an oil distributed around the electrical conductor.
- the fluid oil cables and oleostatic cables have such a structure.
- an electrical insulation of an electrical conductor of a fluid oil cable is obtained by a winding of successive layers of a porous electrical insulating material impregnated with an oil, for example by a paper winding.
- An outer sheath surrounds the insulating material and contains the oil inside the cable.
- An oleostatic cable comprises several assembled phases, generally three, each of which comprises an electrical conductor which is surrounded by an insulation sheath.
- An outer sheath surrounds the phases and contains an oil distributed around the phases inside the cable.
- the outer sheath 5 contains the insulating oil of the cable 19 which is distributed around three phases.
- Each of the phases comprises an electrical conductor 2 and an insulation sheath 20 which surrounds the electrical conductor 2.
- the insulation sheath 20 comprises a porous electrical insulating material which is wound in successive layers and which is impregnated with an oil viscous
- a pressure drop may occur locally and bubbles may form at the inside of the cable, in particular in the insulation sheath 20 of at least one of the phases of the oleostatic cable. Arcs can then occur and cause irreversible damage in the cable.
- the insulating oil of the cable 19 is subjected to a high pressure, which may be between 10 and 20 bar for example, preferably between 12 and 18 bar.
- the configuration of a complete connection of an oleostatic cable which is already known, is very similar to that illustrated in FIG. 2.
- the oleostatic cable is buried in the ground and at least one oil reservoir 7, 8 is arranged at at least one end of the cable, for example in an oil pressurization station.
- the oil reservoir 7, 8 is connected to the hydraulic circuit of the cable via an intermediate hydraulic circuit 9, 10 and the respective connection accessory 13, 14.
- drying oil which generally has a high viscosity
- the oil of the cable gives the oil mixture a viscosity which is higher than that of the oil. initial cable oil.
- the oil leakage rate is reduced by the addition of drying oil, thanks to the increased viscosity of the oil mixture, even before clogging. complete leakage resulting from the polymerization of the drying oil.
- the soil pollution around the cable is therefore already reduced thanks to the higher viscosity that the drying oil provides to the cable oil.
- a drying oil for example linseed oil or Chinese wood oil, also called Tung oil, is added to the oil of the cable in a proportion chosen to seal the leak.
- the proportion of drying oil added is further selected to maintain the high electrical insulation that is provided by the porous insulating material impregnated with the oil blend.
- such a mixture may have hydraulic properties, and especially a viscosity, which are different from those of the cable oil. initial.
- the proportion of drying oil is then preferably chosen to modify little or no hydraulic behavior of the cable.
- This hydraulic behavior can in particular be characterized by a rheological profile of the oil mixture, and by the radial diffusion (or “diffusibility” in this case) of the mixture of oils through the materials present from the oil channel 1 up to to the inner face of the outer sheath 5.
- the proportion of drying oil must be low enough to best maintain the electrical and hydraulic behavior of the cable.
- the proportion of drying oil in the composition of the cable oil is preferably less than 50% (percent) by weight, more preferably less than 30% by weight;
- the proportion of drying oil is preferably sufficiently high to quickly and effectively plug an oil leakage through the outer sheath 5 of the cable.
- the proportion of drying oil in the oil mixture is preferably greater than 5% by weight, more preferably greater than 10% by weight.
- the proportion of drying oil in the composition of the insulating cable oil may be between 5% and 50%, preferably between 10% and 30%.
- the insulating cable oil within the meaning of the invention may comprise a polymerization catalyst which comprises a mineral salt, for example a cobalt salt.
- a polymerization catalyst which comprises a mineral salt, for example a cobalt salt.
- a catalyst promotes and / or accelerates the polymerization of the drying oil in contact with oxygen.
- the drying oil polymerizes more rapidly and produces a faster and more effective clogging, for a proportion of drying oil in the mixture which can be scaled down.
- the proportion of polymerization catalyst in the oil mixture can be less than 10% by weight, preferably less than 5% by weight, to avoid a polymerization of the drying oil inside the cable in the absence of leakage.
- the manufacture of the mixture of the cable oil and the drying oil may comprise the following steps:
- composition of the oil mixture that impregnates the insulating material 4 with a fluid oil cable can comprise:
- the mixture thus obtained is homogeneous and has a satisfactory viscosity, especially for an application of circulation of the fluid oil in the cable.
- this mixture according to the tests carried out, makes it possible to seal in less than twenty-four hours a leakage through the outer sheath 5 of a fluid oil cable, in which the mixture is subjected to a pressure of 1 , 5 bar, and with an initial oil leakage rate that is greater than 250 liters per week.
- the invention is not limited to its implementations in cables whose structures correspond to FIGS. 1 and 3.
- the cable may in particular incorporate additional constituent elements.
- the conductive core of the fluid oil cable may have a different embodiment than that based on separate sectors and that the shielding layer 3 of the core 2 is not essential for the invention.
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