Aluminum in mechanical and electronic industry

Aluminum has been used as a conductive material in almost all branches of electrical engineering. In addition to pure aluminum, some of its alloys are also excellent conductors of electricity, which can be judged as a combination of structural strength with quite acceptable electrical conductivity.

Aluminum is almost everywhere in the electrical industry. Aluminum winding motors, high voltage lines, and even the power lines in your home's breaker box can all be aluminum.

Applications of aluminum in VPS products

Busbar

Aluminum has been used for busbars since 60 years ago and started to have a breakthrough from 1960 onwards, Aluminum is more and more used for many applications in manufacturing and busbar applications due to its light weight and its durability.

Tubular aluminum is used exclusively for substation busbars at 275kV and 400kV and is increasingly used at 132kV for substation renovation and redevelopment.

Aluminum is used in large industrial plants equipped with many furnaces and electrochemical plants because of the availability of large cross-section cast bars (up to 600mm × 150mm). Aluminum is also used in switchgear and main systems because of its lighter weight compared to copper.

Power cable

Aluminum is widely used in the conductor industry with cross-sections of 16mm2 used in power cables 66kV and above. Aluminum is not usually found in indoor grid systems due to concerns about the durability of the wires. junction.

Aerial path

Overhead steel-reinforced aluminum conductors are used worldwide for grid power systems.

Aerial steel-reinforced aluminum conductors have been used more and more since 1960 because of the elimination of the risk of bimetallic corrosion and improved conductivity for a given cross-section. Aerial steel-reinforced aluminum conductors are also being favored and trusted by railway operators for overhead grid power systems because of their lower weight and reduced risk of theft compared to copper.