Metal Enclosed Switchgears

Metal Clad Switchgears

Gas Insulated RMU's

Catalogue 2011

a Friem & Aktif Group Company

Aktif trade mark for Medium voltage switchgears, Switching equipment and
Kiosks with high quality and environmentally sensitive

Competitive trade mark of Aktif for manufacturing Medium voltage

switchgears, Switching equipment and kiosks

Aktif trade mark for Capacitor Banks, Harmonic Filters, Resistors, Medical
Insulated Power Panels, Synchronization and Energy automation Panels
with high quality and environmentally sensitive

Aktif trade mark for Measuring, Protection, Automatic Meter Reading,

Billing and Energy Management Software.

Aktif trade mark for Measuring, Protection, Control and Power Quality products
with high quality, long life and environmentally sensitive

Identifies the product as top quality, safe and one step forward of the similar ones.

Symbolizes measurable energy saving products helps to energy continuity.

Identifies smart control logic.

Identifies easy to use products, simplifies the difficult tasks.

Green products, respects to the nature and our future.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
A1 Partition Specification 8
A2 Internal Arc Classification (IAC) 8
A3 Loss of Service Continuity (LSC) 9
A4 Insulation of Switchgears 9
A5 Comparison Table 10
A6 Related Standards 10

METAL ENCLOSED SWITCHGEARS

B1 Compartments 15
B2 Application Areas 16
B3 Advantages 16
B4 Standards Complied 16
B5 Technical Specifications 17
B6 Switchgears Types 18

METAL CLAD SWITCHGEARS

C 1 Metal Clad Switchgears 38
C 1.1 Compartments 39
C 1.2 Application Areas 41
C 1.3 Advantages 41
C 1.4 Standards Complied 41
C 1.5 Technical Specifications 42
C 1.6 Switchgears Types 43
C 2 Metal Clad Switchgears for Double Busbar applications 52
C 2.1 Compartments 52
C 2.2 Application Areas 53
C 2.3 Advantages 53
C 2.4 Standards Complied 54
C 2.5 Technical Specifications 54
C 2.6 Switchgears Types 55

GAS INSULATED RMUs

D1 Compartments 63
D2 Application Areas 63
D3 Advantages 64
D4 Standards Complied 64
D5 Technical Specifications 65
D6 Switchgears Types 67
D7 Sample Busbar Designs with RMU Units 78

AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT
E 1 Switching Equipment 82
E 2 Protection Devices 86
E 3 Measuring Devices 89
E 4 Measuring Transformers 93

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Company Profile
Aktif Mühendislik Ltd.

Aktif Engineering (AMDT) is established in 1996

Measuring, Protecting and Quality of Electricity.

2200m2 headquarter of AMDT is located in Istanbul

consisting of 35 employees. Since establishment AMDT
provides high quality engineering, supplying and start-up
services for the power quality, energy saving, energy
metering, protection.

AMDT provides standard and custom designed solutions

to domestic and international customers, with over 15
years of experience.

Aktif Raylı Sistemler Ltd.

Aktif Railway Systems (ARS) is established in 2008 for the

designing and providing of traction systems' substations
as well as providing on-board equipment used on vehicles.

The main purpose of ARS is providing engineering services

and products to public bodies and companies in this
sector.

Even though it is a brand new company, ARS managed to

complete successfully both Antalya Light Rail System
project as well as Istanbul Metro Stinger System projects.

Aksis Enerji Sistemleri Ltd.

Aksis Energy Metering Systems (AKS) is established in

2003 for providing metering solutions like Automatic Meter
Reading, Billing Software in every level of energy sector.
The company is focused on saving and efficient using of
energy by its Meter Management and Loss & Leakage
tracing solutions.

AKS answers all expectations in power systems with high

quality products and custom design software solutions.

AKS customers create over 100 million Euro energy bills

using different Metering, Management and Billing methods
of AKS.

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Aktif Elektroteknik A.Ş.

The company is established to manufacture Switchgears and

Kiosks under the name of “Setas” in 1981. First in 2008,
company merged to Aktif Group as Aktif Elektroteknik (AET)
and then the company becomes international after significant
participation of Italian Friem S.p.A in 2009.

9000m2 factory of AET is located in Ankara consisting of over

100 employees.

AET operates with its 30 years of manufacturing experience,

modernized machinery line, ever increasing know-how,
experienced Turkish and Italian R&D teams, quality products
type tested by the leading accredited European laboratories
and the vision of new ideas to meet with future expectations.

Friem S.p.A.

Friem manufactured over 40 million ampere and 1000 power

rectifiers for the worldwide since it's established in Milan at
1950.

Having technical knowledge of energy and electro mechanics

along with ability of complete design of conversion systems,
FRIEM provides also high voltage DC insulators, DC switches,
anodic control and protection products and auxiliary equipments
like polarization products to its customers.

Friem is a share holder of Aktif Elektronik in Turkey and also

COET S.r.L in Italy.

Coet S.r.L.

Since establishment in 1962 in Milan, COET has been

producing AC/DC switching equipments and panels that are
used safely by its customers thanks to the COET's work on
industrial and electric equipment and patents obtained in this
field.

All manufactured products are the result of long technical

research and development work. This way, the company is
known for the originality and diversity of its planned solutions.

COET has been working on Industrial and railway systems

and has become one of the leading companies in the field of
supplying switching equipments for traction substation.

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Introduction

Aktif Group is in continuous development with its

customer oriented activities, advanced engineering
know-how, R&D works, software developing abilities and
with the continuous support of loyal customers that are
attained and protected by precise work and ethical
principles of the company.

The group companies have ISO 9001 since 90s and our
factory has ISO 14001 Environment and ISO 18001
Occupational Health and Safety Certificates.

Technology
The most important activities of Aktif is R&D and increase the
Employee quality which the investment amount of these
activities are more than average.

All mechanical projects are designed by 3D-CAD platforms.

Power flow, test and quality works are calculated by
Worldwide accepted simulation software and ActWin software
as well as developing software for different platforms.

In order to increase the production quality and capacity all

machinery within the facility are renewed with latest
technology equipment in 2009.

Mission

By the help of our following missions are continuing to

announce product quality and knowledge of our company
and country in best possible way by meeting rising
customer expectations.

open minded approach

high quality policy
innovative ideas
constantly improved processes
polished employees
knowledge based decisions

Vision

To increase the number of our loyal customers in global

market, hence increasing the market share and
becoming reputable, reliable and preferred company as
worldwide with our;

prominent quality difference,

customer oriented approach,
innovative activities,
open minded approach.

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Security

The human safety and security are the main concerns in

all of our products.

Design, Interlock logics and documentation of our

products are implemented, manufactured and tested in
order to reach the highest safety level.

Furthermore, services and site works are done according

to human safety rules by taking into account the
dangerous of electricity.

High Performance, Durable and Simple

Endurance of our products, which are produced with high

level of awareness and accurateness in addition to follow
international standards, ensures an outstanding
performance for the users. Therefore our products are
considered as top of the line products.

Visual simplicity and being user friendly are the design

criteria for the software and hardware of our products. Our
products have the most simple and functional features for
emergency applications as well as persistence of habits and
customer satisfaction are basics in design, production and
shipment.

Service Continuity
The service continuity means efficiency of power
consequently profitability of the business.

Our products are designed and manufactured in order to

ensure energy sustainability and provide the best service
availability.

This policy is the cornerstone of our orientation and training

programs and it is fully applied by our technical and
administrative staff.

Local & Remote Monitoring

Energy continuity and efficiency can be ensured only by

monitoring of equipments local and remotely.

Our products are designed with remote monitoring and

management features by the help of our software
development abilities on different platforms and hardware
capabilities. This will ensure the saving and profitability,
directly.

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A 1 Partition Specification 8
A 1.1 Accessible Compartments 8
A 1.2 Non-accessible Compartments 8
A 1.3 Partition Class 8
A 2 Internal Arc Classification (IAC) 9
A 3 Loss of Service Continuity (LSC) 9
A 4 Insulation of Switchgears 10
A 5 Comparison Table 10
A 6 Related Standards 11

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Information
A Technical Information

Metal Enclosed switching and control equipment between

the rated voltage 1 - 52 kVac are defined in IEC 62271-200
standards.
Medium It is possible to classify the Switchgears in accordance with
Voltage
Switchgears the specifications given in IEC 62271-200 standard
conveniently in the below given table.

Internal Loss of A 1 Partition Specifications

Partition Insulation of
Arc Service
Specifications Compartments
Classification Continuity The structure of the switchgears partitions and their features
are provided in 3 main headings as seen in the attached table.

Accessible
Compartments
Non-accessible
Compartments
Partition
Class
A 1.1 Accessible Compartments
Interlock-controlled accessible compartment: Compartment
Switchgears classification according to IEC 62271-200 containing high voltage parts, intended to be opened for
normal operation and/or normal maintenance as stated by
the manufacturer, in which Access is controlled by integral
design of the switchgear and controlgear. Installation,
extension, repairing are not considered as normal
maintenance
Procedure-based accessible compartments: Compartments
containing high-voltage parts, intended to be opened for
normal operation and/or normal maintenance as stated by
the manufacturer, in which Access is controlled by suitable
procedure combined with locking. Installation, extension,
repairing are not considered as normal maintenance
Tool based accessible compartments: Compartment
containing high-voltage parts, that may be opened, but not
for normal operation and maintenance. Special procedures
are required. Tools are necessary for opening.

A 1.2 Non-accessible Compartments

Compartments that should not be needed to open and the
opening may damage the integrity which contains high-voltage.

A 1.3 Partition Class

It is a classification that defines whether metallic or
non-metallic parts to be used or not for the purpose of
segregating the compartments contains live parts.

Partition class PM Switchgear providing continuous

metallic partitions and/or shutters,
intended to be earthed, between
opened accessible compartments
and live parts of the main circuits

Partition class PI Switchgear having one or more non-

metallic partitions or shutters
between opened accessible
compartments and live parts of the
main circuit

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 Technical Information A

A 2 Internal Arc Classification

It is a classification for metal enclosed switchgear and
controlgear, to ensure that in case of an internal arc the
defined conditions for protecting people are met and verified
by the appropriate test.

Three types of accessibility are defined, by considering

possible accessibility of Switchgears at site.

Accessibility Type A: Restricted to the authorized

personal only

Accessibility Type B: Unrestricted accessibility, open

to any people

Accessibility Type C: Accessibility restricted by

installation which is out of
reachable distance for pole
mounted switchgears. The
allowable minimum height of the
facility should be defined by the
manufacturer.

The metal enclosed switchgear and controlgear may have

different accessibilities for different directions. The following
codes should be used to define accessibility from different
directions.

F : Front
L : Side
R : Back

A 3 Loss of Service Continuity

It is a classification which defines the keeping of other
Switchgears and/or functional units in energizing position
when main circuit compartment of a switchgear is opened.

LSC2: It shows the having to other accessible compartments

out of the main busbar compartment of single busbar
switchgear and controlgear. Two subsections are
defined.

LSC2B: defines the Switchgears that opening and

interfering of switching compartment is allowed
while both cable and busbar compartment is
energized.

LSC2A: defines the Switchgears that opening and

interfering of switching compartment is allowed
while only busbar compartment is energized.

LSC1: defines the Switchgears that opening and interfering of

switching compartment is not possible while any of
busbar or cable compartments is energized since cable
and current-voltage transformers are located in a single
section.

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A Technical Information

A 4 Insulation of Switchgear
Switchgears may have different types of insulations as
follows:

Air Insulated
Gas Insulated
Liquid Insulated

A 5 Comparison Table
Metal Clad Metal Enclosed
Specifications RMU Units
Switchgears Switchgears

LSC 2B-PM 2A-PI PM

IAC AFLR AFL AFL
IP 40 40 67
SMC series Metal Clad Switchgears Ur Up to 40.5 kV Up to 40.5 kV Up to 40.5 kV
Ir Up to 4000 A Up to 1250 A Up to 1250 A
Ik Up to 50 kA Up to 25 kA Up to 25 kA

SME series Metal Enclosed Switchgears

TPR6 series Gas Insulates RMUs

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 Technical Information A

A 6 Related Standards
The IEC 60298 was able to meet the standards while it was
utilized in previous years. However, due to the advancement of
the technology and developments in Switchgears designs, and
bringing the safety to the forefront, the standard was no able to
handle the power cuts of the systems as well as maintenance
needs of the users.

In the following table the new IEC 62271 standard and its
sections and corresponding old standard numbers are written
as it's published by SC17A and SC17C committees.

IEC 62271 HIGH VOLTAGE SWITCHGEAR AND CONTROLGEAR

Section New Heading Old IEC Number

1 Common specifications for high-voltage switchgear and controlgear standards IEC 60694
2 Seismic Competence for rated voltage of 72.5 kV and above -

100 High-voltage alternating current circuit-breakers IEC 60056

101 Synthetic testing of high voltage alternating current circuit breakers IEC 60427
102 Alternating current disconnectors and earthing switches IEC 60129
103 Switches for rated voltages above 1 kV and less than 52 kV IEC 60265-1
104 High voltage switches for rated voltages of 52 kV and above IEC 60265-2
105 Alternating current switch-fuse combinations IEC 60420
106 High voltage alternating current contactors and contactor-based motor-starters IEC 60470
107 High voltage alternating current switchgear-fuse combinations -
108 Switchgear having combined functions -
109 Alternating-current series capacitor by-pass switches -
200 AC metal enclosed switchgear and controlgear for rated voltages above IEC 60298
1 kV and up to an including 52 kV
201 AC insulation-enclosed switchgear and controlgear for rated voltages above IEC 60466
1 kV and up to an including 38 kV
202 High-voltage/low-voltage prefabricated substations IEC 61330
203 Gas-insulated metal enclosed switchgear for rated voltages of 72.5 kV and above IEC 60517
204 Rigid high-voltage, gas-insulated transmission lines for rated voltages of IEC 61640
72.5 kV and above
300 Guide for seismic qualification of high-voltage alternating current circuit breakers IEC 61666
301 High-voltage alternating current circuit breakers - Inductive load switching IEC 61233
302 High-voltage alternating current circuit breakers - Guide for short circuit and IEC 61633
switching test procedures for metal-enclosed and dead tank circuit breakers
303 High-voltage switchgear and controlgear - Use and handling of SF6 in high voltage IEC 61634
switchgear and controlgear
304 Additional requirements for enclosed switchgear and controlgear from IEC 61932
1 kV to 72.5 kV to be used in severe climatic conditions
305 Cable connections for gas-insulated metal-enclosed switchgear for IEC 60859
rated voltages of 72.5 kV and above - Fluid filled and extruded insulation cables-
Fluid-filled and dry type cable terminators
306 Direct connection between power transformers and gas-insulated IEC 61639
metal-enclosed switchgear for rated voltages of 72.5 kV and above.
307 High-voltage switchgear and controlgear - The use of electronic and IEC 62063
associated technologies in auxiliary equipment of switchgear and controlgear
308 Guide for asymmetrical short-circuit breaking test duty T100a -
309 TRV parameters for high voltage switchgear and controlgear with rated value ove
1 kV and under 100 kV -
310 Electric endurance test for circuit breakers with rated voltage of 72.5 kV and above -

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B1 Compartments 15
B2 Application Areas 16
B3 Advantages 16
B4 Standards Complied 16
B5 Technical Specifications 17
B6 Switchgears Types 18
B 6.1 Incoming Switchgears with Disconnectors 20
B 6.2 Incoming Switchgears with Load Break Switch 21
B 6.3 Cable Connection Switchgears 22
B 6.4 Incoming Switchgears with Circuit Breaker 23
B 6.5 Outgoing Switchgears with Circuit Breaker 24
B 6.6 Outgoing Switchgears with Vacuum Contactor 25
B 6.7 Outgoing Switchgear with Fuse and Load Break Switch 26
B 6.8 Bus Coupling Switchgears 27
B 6.9 Bus Coupling Switchgears with Load Break Switch 28
B 6.10 Bus Section with Load Break Switch 29
B 6.11 Bus Section with Circuit Breaker 30
B 6.12 Bus Riser 31
B 6.13 Bus Voltage Measuring Switchgear 32
B 6.14 Bus Current Measuring Switchgear 33
B 6.15 Current & Voltage Measuring Switchgear with Load Break Switch 34
B 6.16 Surge Arrestor Switchgears 35

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Enclosed
Switchgears
B SME series Metal Enclosed Switchgears

SME series Metal Enclosed Switchgears are the switching and

control equipment between 1 kV and 40.5 kV, manufactured in
conformity with IEC 62271-200.

The first Metal Enclosed Switchgear of Turkey is manufactured

in Aktif factory in 1995 and tested in international test
laboratories.

SME series Metal Enclosed Switchgears are manufactured by

galvanized metal sheet with 2 mm thickness and painted by
electro-static powder paint in colors conforming to RAL coding.

SME series Metal Enclosed Modular Switchgears

manufactured by Aktif Elektroteknik are defined with following
features as per IEC 62271-200 standards:

Air insulated
LSC 2A Loss of Service continuity
PI Partition Class
AFL Internal Arc Classification
3 accessible compartments

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 SME series Metal Enclosed Switchgears B

B 1 Compartments
SME series Metal Enclosed Switchgears contain
3 segregated compartments.
a
a - Low Voltage Compartment
b - Busbar Compartment
c - Switching Equipment Compartment

a - Low Voltage Compartment

b This compartment contains all secondary circuits for
measurement, protection, control, monitoring,
communication and other associated systems.

b - Busbar Compartment
Busbar Compartment mainly consists of;
- Electrolytic copper busbars according to rated current.
- Epoxy resin post insulators
Access to busbar compartment is possible with special safety
c procedures and tools.

c - Switching Equipment Compartment

In this Compartment following equipment is contained
according to the project specifications:
Switching equipment
Current transformers
Voltage transformers
Surge arresters
Grounding
Capacitive voltage divider
Cable connection couplings

Furthermore, this compartment also contains following

switching equipment:
SF6 Gas or vacuum circuit breaker
SF6 Gas insulated Load Break Switch
SF6 Gas insulated or Rotary Disconnector
Vacuum Contactor
Switching compartment access is controlled by integral
design of Metal Enclosed Switchgear to ensure safe
operation according to IEC 62271-200
The following mechanic Interlocks are provided as standard:
performing of Load Break switches with/without fuses is not
possible when;
the Switching compartment door is open and/or,
the Grounding disconnector is in Closed position
switching of Disconnectors used together with circuit
breakers is not possible when;
the Switching compartment door is open ,
the Circuit Breaker is Closed position and/or,
the Grounding disconnector is in Closed position
switching of Grounding disconnector is not possible when;
the Line Disconnector is in Closed position.

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