Electric Power ›› 2014, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (5): 78-82.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.2014.5.78.4

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Flexible Insulating Rod for Live Line Working with Ultra-High Voltage

XIANG Wen-xiang1, LIU Kai2, WU Zheng-rong3   

  1. 1. Electric Power Overhaul Branch Office of Hubei Electric Power Company, Wuhan 430054, China;
    2. Wuhan Branch Institute of China Electric Power Research Institute, Wuhan 430074, China;
    3. Taizhou Datong Electric Tools Factory, Taizhou 318000, China
  • Received:2014-02-16 Online:2014-05-31 Published:2015-12-21

Abstract: Hard insulating rod(“hard rod” for short) for live working with ultra-high voltage of 1 000 kV has the disadvantages of being too long and very heavy, which may cause many troubles in transportation, storage and operation. Therefore, flexible insulating rods were developed through improving the high-performance fibers and the compositively molding of the fiber with thermoplastic material. This new kind of rods can only be of 34.6% weight of hard rod with the same standard. Although the joint of a flexible insulating rod can only be of 10% weight of the steel joint, the specific strength increases to 2.85 times. With resembling in coil shape, the flexible insulating rod overcomes the difficulty of storage and inconvenience during transportation. It replaces hard insulating rod for live line working with ultra-high voltage and boosts the features of being “safe, reliable, light and flexible”.

Key words: live working, flexible rod, high-performance fiber, thermoplastic resin, composite molding, high-strength and light-weight

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