The author, an electrical engineer of tha Tokyo Electric Light Co. Ltd., Tokyo, recently reterued from his trip through United States, Canada and Europe, touching Bombay on the way to home. And from his inspection he explained here a few notable point in American and European practice for power station, transmiss'on line and under ground cable.
For water wheels, common reaction type s so far developed that efficiency of higher than 90 percent is easily obtained, and now water wheel makers in U.S. and Europe are studying about low head high speed runner, such as Nagler, Moody, Kapla, La aaczeck etc. As large ones in capacity or size, 30000HP runner at La Gabell or 10000HP runner at Lilla Edet may be mentioned.
In big power stations, large unit is generally adopted and we see 60000KW units in American and German plants. In power stations feeding high voltage lines, generator and transformer are treated as a single unit and sometimes generator bus bars are omitted as those plants at Hudson Av. Trerton channel, La Gabell, Barkin Genne illier walehensee. Differing from American practice, oil circuit breakers of multi-break type or those provided with protective resistance are extensively used in Europe, but installation of truck type switches is increasing in both siles, for simplicty of erection, economy of land and building and safety of operation and maintenance. Iron clad type switehos are developed specially in England.
Quite number of at ndantless power stations and substations are in servic in U.S., but rem to controling s stem is not yet commor.
Transforming ap aratus of American power stations are generally of outdoor type, while those of Conadian and European stations are of ind or type, as may be seen in the plants of Winnipeg, Shawnigan Falls, Waggithal, Gollenberg, Wahhensee and others. This is chiefly due io we ther condition and partly due to the fact that for high voltage apparatus, paper insulator is developed more rapidly than porcelain insulator in Europe. But it is reported that outdoor type apparatus of Bjolvo foss power station in Hardanger Fjord, one of very wet districts of western coast in Norway, have not got any remarkable troub e.
As for high voltage trans nission line, two 220K.V. lines are in operation in California and many 100-150K.V. lines are in U.S. and Europe. In the continent, especially Germany has wide net work of 110K.V. line in Middle Germany, Bayern, Pheinland and Baden.
Am rican tower is of wile base type but European is of narrow base type. The size of line conductor in the Continent generally is not so large as in U.S. American suspension insulator is cap and stud ce ented type, extensiie material being applied on cemented surface and cemente being hardened in hot steom. But in Europe, susponsion insulators with much reduced amount of cement or without cement is usually favoured and such insulators as Untra, spherical head (Kngel Kopf), Conical head Kegel Kopf, Motor and "V" are put on market. As may be expected, insulators in Northern countries of Europe depreciate very slowly, while those in India very rapidly. And in Bombay, almost all cemented insu aters on 100K.V. line are taken down and H welet or J.D. insulators are put in pl ce.
Transmission tower carries generally one ground wire, but in a German plant, we see three wires hung on a few towers only in the neighbour hood of power station or substation.
As for commu icating means, high frequency telephone is snccssfully used, in addition to private telephone, public teleph ne and leasel telephone. For American high flrequency telephone, an antenna wire is carried on trausmiss on line towers, but for European one, a special condenser is connected to a line co ductor instead of an antenna wire and consequently p wer required for this apparatus is considerab y small.
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