The capacity is two circuits (each of two pairs of cables) offering a total of 2000 MW import export, each operating at 270 kV. Both UK and France use 50Hz but the DC link was chosen for better control and lower losses. The whole link is 73 km with the under sea section is 48 km.
I did some consultancy on the Converter Station capacitor/thyrsistor banks in 1994 after several overheats resulted in near miss fires. They installed an air sampling system and I believe now use this in combination with a thermal imaging camera to spot individual units before they overheat and damage. (Power factor correction capacitors are a common reason for fires in consumer substations ( ie 11kV/415v substations inside buildings). I was also involved the in the cross harbour interconnector in Hong Kong which was completed in 1981 and allows China Light to import/ export power between Kowloon and HK island (where power is supplied by a different company, HK Electric). The capacity was 300 MW - the Kowloon side supply is connected via the largest underground substation I have ever seen adjacent to the New World Hotel which is actually built on the site of an earlier China Light substation which itself was built on reclaimed land so the transformer chambers are below sea level. The fire suppression on these was by CO2 - unlike most of China Light's primary s/s where deluge protection is the norm. Regards Stewart On 26 Aug 2009, at 21:25, Van pellicom Giedo wrote: > Yes, if i remember well between France and UK. > And it is... I am not sure, 150 Kv or 220 KvDC > And, and therefore I have to go back to the map, also somewhere in the > Mediterranean see. > Italian, Greek island etc... > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Todd Williams > Verzonden: 2009-08-26 21:18 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: RE: European electricity grid > > Is that an underwater DC transmission main? > > > At 03:13 PM 8/26/2009, you wrote: >> And the last one, for the Belgium Electricity grid lovers :-) >> >> http://www.elia.be/repository/pages/a8647b8fabf84821ab39c16803125d3e.aspx >> >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Van >> pellicom Giedo >> Verzonden: 2009-08-26 21:07 >> Aan: [email protected] >> Onderwerp: European electricity grid >> >> http://www.entsoe.eu/resources/gridmap/ >> >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Van >> pellicom Giedo >> Verzonden: 2009-08-26 20:18 >> Aan: [email protected] >> Onderwerp: RE: 3 from 1 >> >> ...It is TN and TT network of course.. >> >> Can someone send me that Famous NFPA sprinkler document in PDF ? >> [email protected] >> Or >> [email protected] >> >> thank you in advance >> Giedo >> Belgium >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sprinklerforum mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sprinklerforum mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > Todd G. Williams, PE > Fire Protection Design/Consulting > Stonington, Connecticut > www.fpdc.com > 860.535.2080 > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
