GRID

Green Power
Transformers
Eco-effcient and innovative
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Alstom Grid creates and delivers customer-valued network solutions for
an energy-effcient future.
Our environmentally-friendly solutions are aimed at meeting major
energy challenges of today and tomorrow: energy effciency, market
effciency, grid reliability and environmental concerns.
Alstom Grids green solutions offer signifcant environmental benefts,
including better product performance up to 7 green criteria, covering
the 3 phases of the product life cycle:

Manufacturing: reduced consumption of natural resources

Operation: lower CO
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emissions, limitation of environmental risk,
noise reduction, space savings and energy effciency

End of life: recyling capabilities of products
Eco-effcient power transformers
Based on customer demand for environmentally friendly products that
improve life cycle costs with limited maintenance needs and increased
service lifetime, Alstom Grid introduces its Green Power Transformers to
accompany and assist customers with todays eco-management challenges.
Highlights:
Over 110 power transformers with our
innovative hermetically-sealed tank design sold
worldwide
Highest voltage reference (245 kV) in the world
for ester oil transformer applications in Brazil
State-of-the-art factories around the world
able to manufacture eco-effcient power
transformers
A sustainable range of green eco-effcient power transformers,
from 10 to 200 MVA and up to 245 kV
Answering our customers environmental
concerns through innovation.
Together, lets make the green choice!
15 MVA 120/17.25 kV 16.7 Hz track-side hermetic transformers for railways
75 MVA 115 / 31 kV hermetic transformer with vacuum tap changer and MS3000
monitoring system for off-shore wind farm Alpha Ventus
ECO-EFFICIENT POWER TRANSFORMERS
A Green Power Transformer (10 to 200 MVA and up to 245 kV) is a
sustainable, eco-effcient product with one or more of the following
functionalities:

Filled with ester oil instead of mineral oil

Hermetically-sealed tank design, equipped with patented expandable
radiators and OLTC with vacuum switch

Innovative technologies to reduce acoustic energy transferred and
optimise design of the active part

Optimised low loss levels

On-line MS3000 monitoring system
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Innovative characteristics of the Green Power Transformer range
ECO-EFFICIENT POWER TRANSFORMERS
Key customer benefts
Green Power Transformers offer a new
alternative for customers who want to
preserve the environment by offering a
lower carbon footprint, limited pollution risk
and optimised life cycle costs thanks to less
maintenance. Other advantages include
reduced ageing, lower noise levels and
increased fre safety.
To further maximise operational management
and prevent faults and damages, advanced
on-line monitoring systems can also be added.
Environmental and health benefts
One of the key benefits offered by
the Green Power Transformers is the
prevention of pollution through the use of
ester oil instead of mineral oil. Ester oil
is biodegradable and less toxic, limiting
pollution risk during operation, installation
and end of life.
Environmental benefts also include reduced
noise levels to limit disturbance in urban or
ecologically sensitive areas. Noise level reduction
above 10 dB (A) is made possible thanks to our
selection of high-performance materials and
equipment, optimised design of active parts and
innovative mechanical structures.
Increased safety
With a Green Power Transformer, fre safety
is improved considerably, offering increased
security, not only for operators but also for
those in close proximity. Ester oil has a fre
point above 350C, more than twice as high
as mineral oil. Green transformers are less
fammable and reduce fre spreading.
High eco-effciency
A major beneft of the Green Power
Transformer range is its optimised life cycle
cost. In our standardised process, design
choice and high-performance materials
achieve low losses for the optimal capitalised
cost of the transformer.
Alstom Grids innovative hermetically-
sealed tank design, equipped with patented
expandable radiators, goes a step further
in reducing life cycle costs: it reduces
maintenance, extends life time and
increases overload ability by preventing
contact between the oil and moisture, and
oxygen in the atmosphere. Hermetically-
sealed tank design reduces cellulosic
insulation and oil aging. It is further-
improved with the use of ester oil, which
increases a transformers insulation life,
thanks to higher water solubility and thus the
drying effect on paper.
Maintenance costs are also reduced as a result
of the hermetic tank design, which requires no
oil conservator and no associated devices. The
optional vacuum tap changers avoid contact
erosion and further reduce maintenance needs.
BIODEGRADABLE
Ester oil > = 95% biodegradable
after 28 days
25% 95%
Mineral Oil Ester Oil
FIRE SAFETY
150C 350C
Ester oil re point above 350C,
versus 150C for mineral oil
Mineral Oil Ester Oil
LOW SOUND LEVEL
Noise level reduction above 10dB(A)
compared to a conventional solution
1*STD NOISE LEVEL 1/2 1/4 1/10
Conventional Transformer Green Transformer
Comparison between conventional and green eco-effcient power transformers
136 & 31,5 MVA hermetic transformers at Vattenfall
Europe power plant
Soya beans used to produce ester oil
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GRID
Alstom Grid Worldwide Contact Centre
www.grid.alstom.com/contactcentre
Tel: +44 (0) 1785 250 070
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Bringing the bulk of energy closer to
consumption centres and investigating
green solutions
EDF Energy installed the frst purpose-built
132/33 kV 90 MVA 3-phase Green Power
Transformer flled with ester oil in the United
Kingdom. Located in Lutons interconnection
substation, it is equipped with our MS
monitoring system to ensure the highest
availability possible during operation. This power
transformer is installed close to consumption
centres, and the fuid is made from edible soya
beans, which are fully biodegradable and have
greater fre-resistant properties.
Preserving the environment in sensitive
areas and using renewable resources
Electronorte, one of Brazils main utilities, bought
and installed a 242 kV shunt reactor, flled with
ester oil, to promote sustainable development
in the protected Amazon region. This is, so far,
the highest voltage application for natural ester
oil transformers. The solution, developed with
oil from renewable resources, also responds to
customers concerns about the use of petroleum-
based fuids in high-voltage applications.
Green all the way from generation to
transmission
EWO Energietechnologie GmbH in Germany
bought Green Power Transformers that feature
hermetically-sealed tank design, equipped
with patented expandable radiators and with a
vacuum tap changer and flled with ester oil for
wind farm connection. On top of environmental
benefts, reduced transformer maintenance is also
a direct beneft of this green project.
Lowering maintenance and increasing
service provision
In the past 7 years, the national German
railway operator Deutsch Bahn purchased large
series 10 and 15 MVA hermetically-sealed
Green Power Transformers with patented
expandable radiators and vacuum tap changers
for reduced maintenance costs, optimised
overload capacities and longer life time.
Low sound transformers for silent
substations
PSE&G, one of the main utilities on the East
Coast of the USA, needed to have silent
substations to be built close to consumption
centres with high population densities in New
Jersey State. Alstom Grids 550 MVA 230 kV
auto-transformer with OLTC and ONAF cooling
was the right solution. Noise reduction was
achieved with optimised active part design,
tank decoupling, tank designed for reduced
transmission of energy, resonance absorbers and
sound panels, up to -10 dB on load sound level.
Key references
ECO-EFFICIENT POWER TRANSFORMERS
Summary of green functionalities
ALSTOM GRID Green Criteria
Applied to Green Transformer
Health
& Safety
Eco-Efciency
Reduction of
environmental risk
Reduction of
noise level
Improved
re safety
- Reduced maintenance
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- Longer life time
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Optimised loss levels
Filled with ester oil
Innovative hermetic-sealed
tank design, vacuum OLTC
Low audible sound level
On-line MS3000
monitoring system
Energy and
transmission efciency:
Optimised life
cycle cost:
- Reduced power losses
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- Overload ability
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242 kV 22 MVAr shunt reactor flled with natural
ester oil for major Brazilian utility Electronorte