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The function and performance of Stress Control Tube

2022-07-29
Stress Control Tube is an important part of cable accessories, mainly used in the connection position of power cables, together with other heat shrinkable cable accessories, so as to play the role of evacuating electric field stress in cable terminals.

One of the roles of Stress Control Tube, cable to safe and reliable operation, Stress Control Tube in which played an unknown role. The Stress Control Tube uses the stress at the fracture of the cable shield layer to disperse into a relatively average distribution along the Stress Control Tube.

Another function of the Stress Control Tube is to smooth the bending of the cable branch. So that the cable will not bend too much and break.

The general substrate of Stress Control Tube is polar polymer, and then the filler with high dielectric constant is added. The Stress Control Tube is different from the insulation tube and other parts. The purpose of the insulation tube is to insulate and seal. Through the above content, we know that the function of the Stress Control Tube is to control and disperse the stress. The length of the Stress Control Tube is shorter than that of the insulation tube.


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In order to make the cable run reliably, the Stress Control Tube is very important in the production of the cable head. The Stress Control Tube can achieve the effect of dispersing the electrical stress on the basis of not destroying the main insulating layer.


There is a grounded (copper) shielding layer outside each phase core of the HV cable, and a radially distributed electric field is formed between the conductive core and the shielding layer. In other words, the electric field of a normal cable is only the power line from the (copper) wire to the (copper) shield along the radius, and there is no electric field (power line) along the core axis, and the electric field distribution is uniform.

During the construction of the cable termination, the shielding layer is removed and the original electric field distribution of the cable is changed, which will produce tangential electric field (power line along the axis of the wire) which is extremely unfavorable to insulation. 

The power line stripped of the shielding core wire is concentrated at the shielding layer fracture. Then the shielding layer at the break is the most vulnerable part of the cable breakdown. Shielding layer of cable are most likely to breakdown, fracture, we take the scattered the focus (electric stress) of power lines, with the dielectric constant of 20 ~ 30, volume resistivity of 108 ~ 1012Ω·cm material electric stress control tube (hereinafter referred to as stress control tube), set in shielding layer fracture place, to spread the fracture of the electric field stress (power), ensure that cable can reliable operation.


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