WINDING SOLUTIONS

CTC/PICC CONDUCTORS

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 ABOUT

APAR
APAR Industries Limited, founded by Late Mr. Dharmsinh D. Desai in the year
1958 is one among the best established companies in India operating in the
diverse fields of electrical, metallurgical and chemical engineering. Over the
ensuing years it has evolved to be a 1 Billion US Dollar diversified company
offering value added products and services in Power Conductors, OPGW
Products, Wire & Cables, Copper Products and Petroleum Specialities.

A technology - driven and customer - reinforcing product innovation, cost

focused vendor to some of the most leadership and premium quality and
brand enhancing power companies living its vision 'Tomorrow's Solution
in India and abroad, APAR has Today’ resulting in Reliability, Respect,
strengthened the business of its Reputation and Repeat business
customers through proactive across customers of Power
product development, timely Conductors, OPGW, Wire & Cables,
product delivery and superior Copper Products and Petroleum
product attributes by Specialties.

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CONDUCTORS CTC CONTINUOUSLY TRANSPOSED CONDUCTOR

CTC gives several advantages in the design &

construction of transformer compared to conventional
paper covered conductors.
✓ Reduction in Electrical losses,
✓ Uniform distribution of temperature,
✓ Increase in space factor,
✓ Reduced winding time,
✓ Reduction in size of transformer,
✓ Reduction in total cost.

Copper & Copper Alloys:

CU-ETP, CU-Ag0.1 & OFC according to ASTM B-49-17

CTC COPPER
Copper CTCs are typically used as winding material
for power distribution, traction and furnace
transformers.

Variants: continuously transposed conductor, twin

CTC, special protection paper-covered CTC, netting
tape CTC

CTC ALUMINIUM

Aluminium CTCs reduce winding power cost by 60%.

Variants: continuously transposed conductor, twin CTC,

special protection paper-covered CTC, netting tape CTC

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CONDUCTORS CTC CONTINUOUSLY TRANSPOSED CONDUCTOR

Types of enamel and epoxy for individual strip:

Code Type of Enamel Class

PVA Poly-vinyl Formal Resins 120OC
PEI Poly-ester-imide 180OC
PEI+PAI Poly-ester-imide + Poly-amide-imide 200OC
Epoxy Standard B-Stage Epoxy 120OC
Epoxy (HS) Special B-Stage Epoxy 120OC

Advantages of Epoxy Coated CTC:

The bonding resins of epoxy give high bonding strength & increases
short circuit resistance.

Production Range CTC

Parameter Range
Number of strands 5 to 83
Width (Single Strip) 3.15 mm to 11.50 mm
Thickness (Single Strip) 0.90 mm to 3.00 mm
Number of layers Maximum 24
Transposing factor (Ft) 6 to 12

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CONDUCTORS CTC CONTINUOUSLY TRANSPOSED CONDUCTOR

Work Hardening: Proof stress at Rp0.1% & Rp0.2%

Proof stress code Range

CPR A 80 to 110 MPa
CPR B 90 to 120 MPa
CPR 1 140 to 200 MPa
CPR 2 170 to 220 MPa
CPR 3* 220 to 260 MPa
*CPR > 240 MPa, we recommend Cu-Ag0.1 (Silver Bearing)

Insulation for CTC Bundle:

Paper type
Kraft Paper
Thermally Upgraded kraft Paper
High density Crepe Paper (Dennison-22HCC/Cindus-42HCF)
Nomex®
Polyester netting tape
Furthermore, our state of art manufacturing process at APAR offers additional
specific advantages like:
• Accurate transposition enabling limited tolerance in measurement.
• Extreme flexibility through very small pitches.
• Excellent windability and simple handling of Conductors.

Continuously transposed cables are used in transformers having very high cost and
reliability factor. So a strict control in quality is required during production run.

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CONDUCTORS CTC CONTINUOUSLY TRANSPOSED CONDUCTOR

Transposing

Transposition:

For a given one turn on the smallest winding diameter D, all the strips change their position
at least once. The pitch P may be shorter than calculated one:
P= D X π / n.
For stability of winding, the pitch cannot be chosen at random. The transposing factor
considers the width of individual conductor. The transposing factor Ft should not be less than
5:
Ft = D x π/ b x n.

Dimension calculation:

Nominal axial width is calculated as

Ab = 2 *(b + E) + I + R
The radial dimension of odd numbered CTC is calculated as
Rh = (n + 1)/2 * (a + E) + R
or for CTC with an even number of strands
Rh = (n + 2)/2 * (a + E) + R

Where
n Number of strips
a Thickness of bare wire
b Width of bare wire
E Nominal increase due to enamel Inter
I Column separator
R Nominal paper insulation

Dimensional Measurement of CTC is done on straight specimen of approximately 400mm length with
open ends under a pressure of 1 N/mm2.

Each CTC is supplied with electrically continuous strips for the entire length of the cable on the drum.
Prior to shipment the insulation of strips is tested.

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CONDUCTORS PICC PAPER INSULATED COPPER CONDUCTOR

(Double Bunched/Triple Bunched/

Quadruple Bunched/Enameled Bunched etc.)

Parameter Range
Width (Single Strip) 3.00 mm to 16.00 mm
Thickness (Single Strip) 1.00 mm to 5.00 mm
Number of layers Maximum 16

Different Types of Construction:

Radial Axial

C) Enameled Copper Strips:

Code Type of Enamel Class
PVA Poly-vinyl Formal Resins 120OC
PEI Poly-ester-imide 180OC
PEI+PAI Poly-ester-imide + Poly-amide-imide 200OC
Width Single Strip: 3.00 mm to 12.50 mm
Thickness Single Strip: 0.90 mm to 3.25 mm

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CONDUCTORS PICC PAPER INSULATED COPPER CONDUCTOR

Factory Infrastructure includes a large range of equipment’s like:

- Wire Drawing machines
- Flat Rolling Mills
- Enameling Lines
- Paper Wrapping machines
- Transposing machines
- Laboratory and detection tools

Instruction for Storage and Handling:

The conductors must be stored covered and protected from weather conditions like rain or
direct sunshine. Keep away from acids or unknown/flammable liquids. CTC drums must be
loaded and stored on their horizontal axis. Transposed conductors with epoxy layer to be
stored in good condition with a temperature lower than 30° C.

Marking:
Each drum is to be clearly marked clearly with following information • Supplier’s name
• Customer’s Job Reference
• Number and size of strands
• Drum number
• Gross weight
• Length of cable

Ordering specification:
Following details to be furnished in Inquiry:
• Conductor size
• Number of strands
• Nominal insulation increase due to paper covering
• Inter column separator, if applicable (only for CTC)
• Smallest winding diameter of transformer coil (only for CTC)
• Length per drum and compartment (if partition drum is required)
• Number of drum
• Approximate total weight of cable

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Chembur, Mumbai 400 071, India

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