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Eaton Corporation is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of safe, reliable and high-performance medium voltage power distribution equipment in accordance with lEC, ANSI and GB / DL standards
Complete Global Medium Voltage Switchgear Solutions
Eaton, a premier leader in designing and manufacturing power distribution and protection equipment in the electrical industry, offers a comprehensive range of medium voltage (MV) solutions to meet the needs of virtually every application. From products that feature cutting-edge design that allow for easy access, maintenance and space savings, to arc-resistant products that enhance safety, Eaton's medium voltage solutions provide a variety of products for every need. Additionally, Eaton's global service network provides maximum customer support in all regions of the world.
As one of the few completely vertically integrated and diversified industrial manufacturers in the world, Eaton designs not only MV assemblies, but also the key components that comprise the MV solutions - from steel housing and circuit breaker compartments to vacuum interrupters, circuit breakers, bus systems and fuses.
Eaton's MV heritage, strengthened by acquisitions such as Westinghouse DCBU, Cutler Hammer, MEM and Holec, has resulted in breakthrough MV technologies and numerous international patents over the years.
Part of Eaton's complete electrical PowerChain Solutions - which help businesses minimize risks while realizing greater reliability, cost efficiencies, capital utilization and safety - Eaton's medium voltage equipment meets all applicable standards and certifications such as IEC, NEMA / ANSI, GB / DL, UL, IEEE, KEMA and CSA.
When it comes to medium voltage solutions, you can trust the one name with a long history of proven performance: Eaton.
iET1
Intelligent Medium Voltage Switchgear
Overview
Eaton has specially introduced the iET1 intelligent switchgear, based on the ET1 medium voltage switchgear, which uses modern sensing technology, microcomputer processing, and communication technology, combined with an expert diagnosis system, and organically combines with the switchgear to realize its intelligentization and health management, reduce unnecessary power outage overhaul and testing, implement targeted inspection or maintenance, reduce maintenance workload and cost, and improve the reliability and economy of the power system.
The iET1 intelligent switchgear is suitable for users in smart grid, data center, airport, industry, and other sectors. Online monitoring, protection, and control modules can be optimally configured according to customer requirements, in order to create intelligent solutions and systems that meet system requirements.
Features
• Modular design of intelligent system, which can be flexibly selected according to requirements;
• The remote control software and embedded expert system are integrated into the system to display the operation status, perform parameters monitoring, and give failure warnings.
• Both the human-machine-interface (HMI) on the switchgear and the system's mobile device APP ensure the flexible operation of the switchgear.
• Functions such as testing, operation control, and warnings are available in the monitoring center via the remote control software.
•It is fully integrated with the existing ET1 switchgear and E-VAC circuit breaker, and has no impact on basic performance and interface size;
Main functions
Monitoring function:
• Monitoring of rising temperature
• Temperature and humidity monitoring in cabinet
• Real-time video monitoring
• Circuit breaker status monitoring
•Monitoring of the circuit breaker' mechanical properties and curve graphs
• Partial discharge monitoring
Control function:
• Remote control of opening/closing of the circuit breaker
• Remote control of chassis
• Remote control of grounding switches
• One-key sequence control
Warning function:
• Warning of temperature anomalies
• Warning of mechanical faults
• Warning of electrical faults
Prediction function:
• Prediction of temperature rise
• Prediction of operational failures
Operating conditions
Normal use conditions in indoor installation and use:
• An ambient temperature of -25°C \~+40°C, and the daily average temperature does not exceed 35°C;
• Humidity conditions: The daily average relative humidity is not higher than 95%, and the monthly average relative humidity is not higher than 90%;
• The surrounding air is not obviously polluted by dust, smoke, corrosive and combustible gases, steam or salt pollution;
• The altitude is not more than 1,000m;
• Earthquake intensity does not exceed level 8;
• The amplitude of electromagnetic interference induced in the secondary system shall not exceed 1.6 kV.
If the operating conditions exceed GB/T11022 and the above provisions, contact Eaton for confirmation.
Adopted standards
GB 3906 Alternating-current metal-enclosed switchgear and control gear for rated voltages above 3.6 kV and up to and including 40.5 kV
• GB/T 11022 Common specifications for high-voltage switchgear and control gear standards
IND/1 4ZU44 IIlemyemt
alternating-current metal-enclosed
switchgear and control gear for rated
voltages above 3.6 kV and up to and
including 40.5 kV
• NB/T 10091 Technical specification for online temperature monitoring system of high-voltage switchgear
Applications
• Smart grid
• Data centers
• Airports/hospitals
• Industrial and commercial enterprises
• Petrochemical industry
Intelligent Monitoring Function
Temperature on-line monitoring
The wireless passive temperature sensor is used to collect the temperature information of the key parts of the switchgear, and the temperature information is transmitted to the intelligent monitoring device via wireless signals; The sensor itself can realize long-life online uninterrupted measurements without a battery power supply.
• The temperature sensor has long life and high reliability;
• Lossless installation does not affect the main circuit;
• Each switchgear can monitor up to 12 points;
• Maintenance-free self-powered sensor and contact conductor accurate temperature measurements;
The highly reliable wireless transmission, high voltage temperature measuring unit and the low voltage side receiving unit are completely electrically isolated;
Video monitoring
Cameras are installed in the breaker room, bus room, or cable room of the switchgear to check the running status in real time and realize the visualization of key operations.
• Cameras with short focal length infrared hemisphere adaptive brightness;
• Check the status of each compartment of the switchgear with real-time video;
•Monitor the action process of handcart and grounding knife in real time in local and remote manners;
Partial discharge online monitoring
The coupling capacitance sensor is used to continuously monitor the insulation and live state of the switchgear in real-time, comprehensively detect various types of insulation defects, realize the functions of partial discharge monitoring and threshold warning of the switchgear, comprehensively measure the characteristic parameters of the partial discharge, and support communication to upload recorded data, providing a basis for equipment management and maintenance.
Direct monitoring based on the pulse current principle has a high sensitivity and strong anti-interference ability;
• The capacitive coupling sensor can be used to monitor the voltage and insulation state at the same time;
• Integrated functions of high-voltage live indication, electricity inspection, and phase inspection;
• Partial discharge diagnosis warning function and relay warning contact output;
• Power frequency voltage live indication and relay forced locking function;
•Continuous real-time online monitoring of partial discharge to help find potential insulation defects of equipment earlier and quicker;
• Comprehensive measurements of partial discharge characteristic parameters: Probability intensity, discharge frequency, and average intensity;
• Calibration according to IEC 60270-2015 (GB/T 7354-2018) to meet the quantitative monitoring requirements of insulation defects;
Intelligent Monitoring Function
Circuit breaker status and characteristic monitoring
The mechanical characteristic parameters and operating current of the vacuum circuit breaker are monitored by the displacement sensor and hall element. Based on Eaton's R&D, manufacturing, and application experience, the professional diagnostic algorithm is used to monitor the changing trends of the switch characteristic state, judge and predict the operation of circuit breaker, and realize the transition from planned maintenance to condition-based maintenance of the circuit breaker, realizing timely detection and early treatment of circuit breaker faults and further ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the distribution system.
Monitoring of mechanical characteristics
The movement curve of the mechanism is obtained by displacement and pressure sensors, and the mechanical characteristic parameters of the circuit breaker can be obtained by intelligent model analysis and calculation.
• Opening/closing time
• Opening/closing speed
Clearance between open contacts
Over-travel
Opening rebound
Closing bounce
Three phases configured to monitor synchronicity
Monitoring of circuit breaker control loop
Obtain the state parameters of the secondary device, and configure the hall element to monitor the opening/closing coil current and the energy storage motor current.
● Monitor the current fluctuation of the opening/closing coil and the energy storage motor, and extract the characteristic quantity to identify early potential risks
The hall sensor is used to monitor related signals independently without intervening in the original secondary circuit
Display Control Function
The FXD310 intelligent monitoring device is the core equipment of intelligent cabinets, which collects sensor signals and component status information, realizes information collection, display, monitoring, control, early warning, event recording, and communication functions, and can communicate with other cabinet components and upload data to the background monitoring system.
Continuously monitors sensor data;
• Event warning;
Large LCD screen as display and human-machine interface;
• Local video display;
• Event recording;
● Local or remote control operation;
• Safe operation permission;
Complies with the IEC61850/IEC104 communication protocol, and configures optical fiber Ethernet communication port, RS485/232 port, and USB port;
The LCD screen of the intelligent monitoring device can display the primary circuit of the switchgear and the real-time status of each equipment; Electric operation of circuit breaker, handcart, and grounding switch can be realized through the control center.
Breaker opening/closing control
• Local/remote electric operation
• Display of basic characteristic parameters of the circuit breaker
Handcart entry/exit control
Entry/exit of electric chassis
• Mechanical/electrical double interlocking and protection
• Display of basic operating parameters of electric chassis
● Manual/electric switch and interlock to ensure manual priority
Grounding switch control
Electric opening/closing operation of grounding switch
• Display of basic parameters of electric operation
Display and HMI
• Operation Interface
• Main circuit wiring diagram display
• Main circuit wiring diagram display
• Real time video
One-key sequence control
• Set operation buttons of "one-key power on" and "one-key power off"
• The system monitors the position and status of the circuit breaker, handcart, and grounding switch, and follows the safety interlocking operation procedure to realize power-on and power-off operations
● Power-on operation: Grounding switch opening- handcart entering working positioncircuit breaker closing
• Power-off operation: Breaker opening- handcart returning to test position- grounding switch closing
Transition operation among operation, hot standby, and cold standby
Intelligent Medium Voltage Switchgear
Warning Function
The intelligent monitoring device can also set warning thresholds in the system, and send out warning signals for temperature and anomalies of circuit breakers, which are uploaded to the monitoring system.
• Warning of temperature anomalies
Warning of mechanical faults
Warning of electrical faults
Event Recording and Report
The intelligent monitoring device can record historical data of various events and form reports, which can be queried locally and transmitted to the background system at the same time.
Operation report;
• Communication report;
• Remote communication report;
• Temperature rise report;
• Event report list;
● Records can be updated and cleared cyclically.
System Settings and Permission Management
• System settings; Time and password;
User settings; Permission and password;
● Fixed-value setting; Environmental fixed-value and protection parameters
Component Configuration and Distribution of Intelligent Switchgear
1
Display operation LCD screen
Voltage and partial discharge monitoring device
2
3
4
Hall element
5
Displacement sensor
6
7
Electric earthing switch
8
9
Temperature and humidity sensor
10
Monitor camera
Eaton Expert Diagnosis System
The background system is equipped with monitoring software and an embedded expert diagnosis system to realize the display, monitoring, and prediction of the switchgear; The expert diagnosis system can evaluate the running state of circuit breaker, comprehensively judge the load and temperature rise of switchgear, give early warnings and alarms for the state of the circuit breaker and switch, and provide diagnosis opinions and suggestions.
• Evaluates the state of circuit breaker mechanism, electric chassis, electric grounding switch, and other equipment and informs users, gives alarm and early warning to mechanism and electrical faults, and provides self-diagnosis opinions of the faults;
• Based on the collected temperature and current load information, the system makes a comprehensive analysis and judgment, gives early warning information on excessive temperature rises or bad rises, and provides reasonable solutions;
• Based on the mechanical characteristics, action current, and action time of the circuit breaker mechanism, the system analyzes the mechanism characteristics, finds fault symptoms such as refusing action and mis-operation in advance, makes mechanical life judgments, sends out early warning information in time, and generates operation and maintenance reports, which can save circuit breaker maintenance costs, reduce equipment/system losses, avoid major accidents, and effectively improve the operation reliability of the system.
• Configure local background system, mobile APP, and cloud data processing
Eaton's mission is to improve the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services. We provide sustainable solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power - more safely, more efficiently, and more reliably. Eaton's 2019 revenues were $21.4 billion, and we sell products to customers in more than 175 countries. We have approximately 95,000 employees.
Eaton began operation in China more than 20 years ago. Since entering the Chinese market in 1993, Eaton's presence has grown significantly in the country. In 2004, Eaton moved its Asia Pacific headquarters from Hong Kong to Shanghai.
In the Greater China region, Eaton has nearly 9,800 employees, 29 manufacturing bases and 5 R&D centers. Today, we make most products for all of Eaton's distinct business here.
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