Flexible Conductors and their Application in Industrial Power Engineering

In systems of power supply of contemporary energy-consuming industrial enterprises for electric transmission from external sources of power (TETs HEAT AND POWER PLANT or GPP main step-down station) to distribution points, located in centers of loads of enterprises, ever wider application find main-line conductors 6-10 kV instead of conduit run. Experience of operating conductors confirms their advantages in comparison with cable systems with respect to operational reliability, convenience in maintenance/servicing and safety in fire sense; fundamental initial costs of feeding electrical network are substantially lower and is reached considerable savings of cable production. Appearing as if collecting mains of power source, carried out directly into zone of consumption, conductors allow connection of users at any point and under specific conditions in any stage of construction and exploitation of enterprise. The primary feeding main lines of system of power supply become to a certain degree independent variables from change in technology or sequence of the construction of separate productions. Partially edited machine trans. of Promyshlennaya Energetika (USSR) n9 p25-30 1970.