ONLOAD 17

The Sloven­ian trans­former man­u­fac­tur­er Kolek­tor ETRA wants to make dig­i­tal­iza­tion as easy as pos­si­ble for its cus­tomers. MR is help­ing them with this.

The glob­al demand for trans­form­ers and ener­gy tech­nol­o­gy is enor­mous. Maschi­nen­fab­rik Rein­hausen has there­fore launched an invest­ment offen­sive to sig­nif­i­cant­ly expand its glob­al pro­duc­tion capac­i­ties.

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is a key tech­nol­o­gy that is also increas­ing­ly find­ing its way into the ener­gy sec­tor. Roland Götz, Head of Inno­va­tion and Tech­nol­o­gy at Maschi­nen­fab­rik Rein­hausen (MR), explains what con­tri­bu­tion the Rein­hausen group is already mak­ing and what oppor­tu­ni­ties arise for grid oper­a­tors from com­pre­hen­sive data col­lec­tion and the use of AI.

Sul­phur hexa­flu­o­ride is an excel­lent insu­lat­ing gas for elec­tri­cal appli­ca­tions but has a cat­a­stroph­ic green­house effect. An EU reg­u­la­tion is there­fore grad­u­al­ly ban­ning its use. HIGHVOLT is pre­pared for this and is mak­ing its gas-insu­lat­ed test and mea­sure­ment sys­tems future-proof.

MR launched the VACUTAP® VV® on the mar­ket in 2000. Since then, it has enabled cus­tomers all over the world to oper­ate their trans­form­ers vir­tu­al­ly main­te­­nance-free. A pio­neer­ing achieve­ment.

A ground­break­ing inven­tion is one thing. Trans­lat­ing it into con­sis­tent­ly reli­able pro­duc­tion is anoth­er. A look at the pro­duc­tion process shows how MR ensures the high­est qual­i­ty for every sin­gle VACUTAP® VV®.

The VACUTAP® VV® is in oper­a­tion all over the world. Espe­cial­ly in Asia. Two trans­former man­u­fac­tur­ers report on their expe­ri­ences.

With the new VACUTAP® VI, MR is tak­ing vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy to a new lev­el and mak­ing it even more effi­cient and sus­tain­able. This inno­v­a­tive on-load tap-chang­er enables com­pact trans­form­ers for net­work oper­a­tion that were pre­vi­ous­ly unthink­able. A big step for a world that needs more and more ener­gy.

Toni Hot­tner, Head of Electro­mechan­i­cal Devel­op­ment at MR, on the devel­op­ment of the new VACUTAP® VI.

Will new con­vert­er tech­nolo­gies such as volt­age source con­vert­ers (VSC) make the tap-chang­er in HVDC sys­tems super­flu­ous? A study by the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Ilme­nau has inves­ti­gat­ed this ques­tion.

Ampri­on GmbH (Ampri­on) is putting the world’s largest phase shifters into oper­a­tion for Germany’s largest grid node. They are an impor­tant con­trol ele­ment in the trans­mis­sion grid to ensure that the ener­gy tran­si­tion suc­ceeds. How­ev­er, this is only made pos­si­ble by high-per­­for­­mance on-load tap-chang­ers from MR.

POWER ON – the pod­cast for any­one inter­est­ed in the trends and chal­lenges of the ener­gy sec­tor – is enter­ing its sec­ond round. New this time: Cus­tomers also talk about their region­al and indi­vid­ual chal­lenges and solu­tions. What you can expect: