Webinar
Eifelkabel has a workable thermoplastic insulation system that has been in service for over 7 years.
Thermoplastic insulation system with emphasising on polypropylene 
Date: November 14th, 06:00 Zurich time
Duration 80 min
Registration fee: 400 €
Customers: Design Engineers in Cable Companies or Utilities, Test Engineers
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We will highlight other thermoplastic solutions that have been used in the past and are under development.
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Our world is getting more and more sensitive to the environment like energy saving and recycling and here XLPE shows some disadvantages to other systems: it can only be thermal recycled and the energy consumption during production is high. Additionally after production of the cores, there is a need for a degassing process that can be very energy and time consuming. Also during this process there is a potential risk of damage to the cable cores.
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Further-on XLPE has the tendency of pre-cross-linking, called scorch, that can create defects inside the cable insulation system.
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Since more than a decade now people have been looking into alternatives to XLPE and came up with a modified polypropylene. In this technology the Italian company Prysmian with their P-Laser ™ is the leader. However also other companies came up with thermoplastic solutions.
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At the end you, will understand some of the basic properties of PP important for AC and DC application and possibilities to modify these properties by adding additives or blending other polymers into PP.
