Ellis Patents Emperor Cable Cleats Installed On London Array Offshore Wind Farm Project

By Chris Dodds on 12th June, 2012

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Ellis Patents Cable Cleats

London Array Offshore Wind Farm

 

 

Emperor Cleats Project Win - Wind Farm. Emperor cable cleats from Yorkshire-based manufacturer, Ellis Patents are being installed on a wind farm project that when complete will power over 470,000 homes. 

The stainless steel cable cleats, which were specified by JDR Cable Systems, are being used on the London Array Offshore Wind Farm, which is currently being built 20km off the Kent and Essex coast in the outer Thames Estuary. Phase one of the project features 175 turbines, two offshore substations and four underwater export cables, and is due for completion by the end of 2012. 

Pictured: London Array Offshore Wind Farm

Paul Nolan, UK sales manager for Ellis, said: “When complete, phase one of London Array will generate power for close to half a million homes, it is therefore essential that every possible precaution is taken during construction to ensure minimum disruption once the wind farm is operational.” 

Like all of its cable cleats, Ellis’ Emperor cleats are sold with full and proper third party short circuit certification that demonstrates the specified products meet the requirements of the project.
 
“For a cable cleat to do the job it is specified for it has to be able to withstand the peak short circuit force generated by the cables in that specific installation,” continued Nolan. “Third party certification, when presented and interpreted correctly, provides proof of this.” 

London Array is being developed by a consortium with the following shareholdings: DONG Energy (50 per cent), E.ON (30 per cent) and Masdar (20 percent).

Ellis Patents Emperor Cable Cleats

The Emperor cleat is a high specification cable cleat for highest short-circuit withstand performance when clamping, retaining and cleating low and high voltage cable powers, including LV, 6.6kV, 11kV, 33kV and Triplex cables.

Emperor cable cleats are used as trefoil cable cleats (ES) for installing single-core cables in trefoil formation, installing single-way cables (ES) and multi-core power cables. Manufactured from 316 grade stainless steel for cleating cables in the marine, offshore, oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

LSF zero halogen protection liners are included within the standard cable cleat - Emperor cleats accept up to 128mm in trefoil cable formation and up to 150mm in single way cable formation. Stainless steel Emperor cable cleats are compliant with London Underground Engineering Standard 1-085 Product Register No.362.

 

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Emperor Cleats have been tested in line with the International Standard of 'Cable Cleats for Electrical Installations' IEC 61914:2009. 

Ellis Patents Emperor Cable Cleats Testing Information

Properties	IEC 61914:2009 Classification Clause	Units / Classification	Emperor Trefoil Cable Application Test Data
Cleat Type	6.1, 6.1.3	Composite	-
Impact Resistance	6.3, 6.3.5, 9.2	Very Heavy Classification (5kg @ 400mm)	Pass
Resistance to Electromechanical Force	6.4, 6.4.3, 9.5	kA @ 300mm Centres M10 Fixings (withstanding one short circuit)	195 (Report No. PDL- 09.098.2)
Resistance to Electromechanical Force	6.4, 6.4.4, 9.5	kA @ 600mm Centres M10 Fixings (withstanding more than one short circuit)	156 (Report No. PDL08.074.1)
Temperature for Permanent Application	6.2	°C	-40 to 60
Needle Flame Test	10.0, 10.1	Application Time (seconds)	>120
Lateral Load Test	9.3	Newtons (N)	-
Axial Movement Test	9.4	Newtons (N)	650

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