Preliminary Report on Oak Ridge National Laboratory Testing of Drake/ACSS/MA2/E3X

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1237155· OSTI ID:1237155

Irminger, Philip ^[1]; King, Daniel J. ^[1]; Herron, Andrew N. ^[1]; Davis, Cody ^[2]; Temple, Bill ^[2]; Baker, Gord ^[2]; Li, Zhi ^[1]; Starke, Michael R. ^[1]; Ollis, T. Ben ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. General Cable Corporation, Highland Heights, KY (United States)

A key to industry acceptance of a new technology is extensive validation in field trials. The Powerline Conductor Accelerated Test facility (PCAT) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is specifically designed to evaluate the performance and reliability of a new conductor technology under real world conditions. The facility is set up to capture large amounts of data during testing. General Cable used the ORNL PCAT facility to validate the performance of TransPowr with E3X Technology a standard overhead conductor with an inorganic high emissivity, low absorptivity surface coating. Extensive testing has demonstrated a significant improvement in conductor performance across a wide range of operating temperatures, indicating that E3X Technology can provide a reduction in temperature, a reduction in sag, and an increase in ampacity when applied to the surface of any overhead conductor. This report provides initial results of that testing.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1237155
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2015/549; TE1101000; CETE004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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