Disconnecting circuit breakers for space saving and enhanced substation reliability

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DCB Substations

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Available voltage levels at dcbsubstations.com

145 kV 420 kV

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72.5 kV 170 kV 245 kV 550 kV

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DCB substations is a marketing app for clearly and easily showing the advantages of a substation equipped with disconnecting circuit breakers in comparison to substations equipped with conventional circuit breakers and disconnectors. The substation layout drawings and data presented in the app are to be considered as approximations. For precise layout proposals and data, contact Hitachi Energy sales manager in your country. Hitachi Energy assumes no responsibility for any errors in layout drawings and data.

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Your result

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Conventional  vs 

Object Outage cost savings ($/year) Outage time reduction (h/year) Space reduction of switchyard (%)
Single Line 4 50%
Single Transformer 1 3
Parallel objects 1 5

Outage cost savings

Single line:
$/year

Single transformer:
1 $/year

Parallel objects:
$/year

Outage time reduction

Single line:
4 h/year

Single transformer:
3 h/year

Parallel objects:
5 h/year

Space reduction

Space reduction: 50%

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Single Line Diagram

Outage cost comparison

  • Outage cost for single line ($/year)

  • Outage cost for single transformer ($/year)

  • Outage cost for parallel objects ($/year)

Availability comparison

  • Downtime for single line (hours/year).

  • Downtime for single transformer (hours/year).

  • Downtime for parallel objects (hours/year).

Space comparison

200m Conventional m2
200m
140m DCB m2
170m

Space comparison (m2) for selected solutions.

More information

With more than 22 years of experience DCB is now the preferred solution to avoid disconnector problems for several transmission and distribution utilities, it is used in all climates and in more than 30 countries.

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