Gas insulated bus system configuration
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.
InventorsDennis J. Matuszak, David F. Giegel, Douglas A. Herman
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Abstract
Gas insulated bus (GIB) systems and methods are provided that facilitate efficient cost control and resource utilization. A GIB system assembly includes one or more GIB runs which include a maximum number of a first GIB section components having a predetermined length and a second GIB section component having a custom or variable length coupled to one of the one or more first GIB section components at their flanged ends, and first and second tee-shaped connectors coupled to one of the one or more first GIB section components and the second GIB section component and used to couple the GIB runs together and orient the bus runs at a desired bus routing angle.
Claims6
A method for configuring and assembling a gas insulated bus (GIB) system comprising the steps of:
- optimizing the configuration of each GIB run of a plurality of GIB runs of a GIB system by including one or more first GIB section components and a single second GIB section component per each of the GIB runs of the plurality of GIB runs of the GIB system, wherein each of the one or more first GIB section components is configured to have a standardized predetermined length and each second GIB section component is configured to have a variable custom length;
- assembling each GIB run of the plurality of GIB runs by coupling the one or more first section GIB section components and the single second GIB section component end to end to achieve a predetermined length for each GIB run of the plurality of GIB runs of the GIB system;
- coupling a first GIB run of the plurality of GIB runs to a second GIB run of the plurality of GIB runs with a connector assembly, wherein the connector assembly comprises one or more standardize tee-shape connectors having first, second and third arms with the first and second arms extending from one another at 180 degrees and extending from the third arm at 90 degrees;
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- orienting the first GIB run relative the second GIB run wherein a first longitudinal axis of the first GIB run is oriented at a run angle relative to a second longitudinal axis of the second GIB between 0 degrees and 360 degrees to accommodate a predetermined bus routing angle.
A GIB run comprising,
- one or more first GIB section components having a hollow cylindrical enclosure with flanged ends and a standardized predetermined length and a cylindrically conductor located coaxially within the enclosure, and
- a second GIB section component having a hollow cylindrical enclosure with flanged ends and a custom or variable length and a cylindrically conductor located coaxially within the enclosure, wherein the second GIB section component is coupled at a first flanged end to a first flanged end of a first one of the one or more first GIB section components.
A GIB system assembly comprising
- first and second GIB runs, wherein each of the GIB runs comprises
- one or more first GIB section components having a hollow cylindrical enclosure with flanged ends and a standardized predetermined length and a cylindrically conductor located coaxially within the enclosure, and
- a second GIB section component having a hollow cylindrical enclosure with flanged ends and a custom or variable length and a cylindrically conductor located coaxially within the enclosure, wherein the second GIB section component is coupled at a first flanged end to a first flanged end of a first one of the one or more first GIB section components, and
- a connector assembly coupled to a first end of the first and second GIB runs, the connector assembly comprising first and second tee-shape connectors coupled to one another, the tee-shaped connectors having first, second and third arms with the first and second arms extending from one another at 180 degrees and extending from the third arm at 90 degrees, wherein one of the first, second and third arms of the first tee-shape connector is coupled to a first end of the first GIB run and one of the first, second and third arms of the first tee-shape connector is coupled to one of the first, second and third arms of the second tee-shape connector, and one of the first, second and third arms of the second tee-shape connector is coupled to a first end of the second GIB run, and wherein the first and second tee shape connectors of the connector assembly are configurable to accommodate a desired bus routing angle between 0 and 360 degrees.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.