High Power Testing Laboratory for electrotechnical equipment
High Power Testing Laboratory for Electrotechnical Equipment
The laboratory has been accredited by:
- National Accreditation Network in Romania – RENAULT. Member ILAC and IT. Accreditation according to EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005.
International member: CIGRE WG 13.12
RENAR certification
Short-circuit current test parameters:
| phase | phase |
|---|---|
| 12 kV – 170 kA | 12 kV – 170 kA |
| 72.5 kV – 25 kA | 123 kV – 25 kA 170 kV – 15 kA |
Short-time withstand current test parameters:
| phase | phase |
|---|---|
| 500V – 135kA/5s | 500V – 320kA/5s |
| 860 V – 80 kA/5s | 2000 V – 80 kA/5s |
Non-reimbursable financing from the European Regional Development Fund.
For the ICMET Craiova High Power Laboratory.
DIRECT TESTING SCHEME
- Generators: Three short-circuit units. Each has 2500 MVA. The current is 120 kA for 0.5 s. They operate in parallel.
- Protection: Six three-phase circuit breaker units. The parameters are 12 kV and 120 kA.
- Short circuiters: Nine single-phase units. The parameters are 12 kV and 330 kA.
- Step-up transformers: Nine single-phase units of 600 MVA. Ratios 12/12/25/51 kV.
- Step-down transformers: Four 40 MVA single-phase units. Multiple ratios.
- Cells: Eight test cells available.
- Capacitors: Battery for direct testing. Three-phase 36 kV and 400 A.
- Heating: Heating test installation. Up to 10,000 A in AC.
- Pantograph: IT disconnector installation. Parameters 525 kV and 60 kA/1s.
- Power arc: AC installation For 420 kV insulator strings.
- Digital: Digital Measurement System 100 MS/s. It has 16bit and 24 channels.
SERVICES OFFERED
Standard and Switching Tests
- Testing the switching capacity of MV and LV circuit breakers and disconnectors. The breaking capacity of fuses is also tested.
- Thermal and dynamic stability tests. These apply to IT and LV devices, cables and cells.
- Dynamic short-circuit stability testing of power transformers. The limit is up to 120 MVA.
- Switching tests for inductive and capacitive currents. Applies to circuit breakers and switch disconnectors.
- Mechanical endurance testing for circuit breakers, disconnectors and contactors.
Special and Heating Tests
- Heating tests of current paths of electrical devices and bars. Maximum rated current 10 kA ac.
- Heating tests on power transformers, instrument transformers and reactors.
- Short circuit tests of arresters, armatures and motors. Grounding systems are also tested.
- Special power arc tests. Performed on insulator lines. Includes internal electric arc.
High power testing on site
- Measurement of switching overvoltage when disconnecting inductive and capacitive loads. Applicable in networks up to 420 kV.
- Measurement of voltages induced in the load during short circuit on overhead lines with voltages up to 420 kV.
Laboratory manager: Eng. Daniel TRUTA
Phone: 0351 402427; 0351 404888
e-mail: lmp@icmet.ro
Deputy Chief: Eng. Constantin IANCU
Phone: 0351 402427
e-mail: lmp@icmet.ro
Reference list:
PUBLISHED WORKS
Articles and International Conferences
Year 2012
- George Curcanu, Constantin ILINCA, Corneliu CHICIU – NEW ASPECTS REGARDING THE MODERNIZATION OF HIGH POWER LABORATORY OF ICMET-CRAIOVA TO ATTAIN THE TECHNICAL AND QUALITATIVE LEVEL CORRESPONDING TO EUROPEAN UNION REQUIREMENTS (International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'12), Santiago de Compostella – Spain, 2012)
Year 2011
- George Curcanu, Constantin ILINCA, Corneliu CHICIU, Horia Ionescu – MODERNIZATION OF HIGH POWER LABORATORY TO FULFILL THE TECHNICAL AND QUALITATIVE CONDITIONS FOR TESTS ACCORDING TO STANDARDS IN FORCE (International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'11), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Spain, 2011)
Year 2010
- George Curcanu, Horia Ionescu, Daniel Truta – ASPECTS REGARDING MODERNIZATION OF HIGH POWER LABORATORY FOR LIMITING THE EFFECTS DUE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ACCORDING TO EMC REQUIREMENTS (International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'10), Granada – Spain, 2010)
- George Curcanu, Horia Ionescu, Daniel Truta, Cornel Chiciu – ASPECTS CONCERNING THE MODERNIZATION OF THE HIGH POWER LABORATORY TO ACHIEVE THE TECHNICAL AND QUALITATIVE LEVEL CORRESPONDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (FOREN 2010, Neptun – Romania, 2010)
Year 2009
- George Curcanu, Ilie Sbora – CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING TESTING OF LOW VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT ENDOWED WITH CONTACTS FROM COMPOSITE MATERIALS TYPE CMC (International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'09 Valencia -Spain, 2009)
- George Curcanu – NEW ASPECTS REGARDING THE SWITCHING BEHAVIOR OF HIGH VOLTAGE SWITCHES WITH SF6 VS. VACUUM (National Conference and Exhibition of Energy, CNEE 2009, Sinaia-Romania, 2009)
- George Curcanu, Ilie Sbora - CONSIDERATION REGARDING INTERNAL ARC TEST ON 12 kV AND 24 kV METAL-ENCLOSED SWITCHGEARS WITH COMPACT RMU - ("Power and Energy System - ASIA PES 2009" Conference, Beijing-China, 2009)
Year 2008
- Curcanu George – ASPECTS REGARDING MAKING AND BREAKING TESTS OF LOW VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT ( WEC REGIONAL ENERGY FORUM FOREN 2008, Neptun-Olimp, Romania, 2008)
- Curcanu George, Ilinca Constantin, Iancu Constantin – RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING – ICMET CRAIOVA EXPERIENCE REGARDING TESTS ON MEDIUM VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT WITH VACUUM SWITCHING DEVICES (XXIII-rd International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum – ISDEIV 2008, Bucharest-Romania, 2008)
- Curcanu George, Iancu Constantin – CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE SHORT-CIRCUIT WITHSTAND TESTS OF POWER TRANSFORMERS (ICEM'08- XVIII International Conference on Electrical Machines, Vilamoura (Algarve) – Portugal, 2008)
Year 2007
- G. Curcanu, P. Tusaliu – TRANSIENTS PHENOMENA AT THE 400 kV NO-LOADED LINE SWITCHING (Electric Power Systems, High Voltages, Electric Machines (Power' 07), Venice - Italy, 2007)
- George Curcanu, Constantin Iancu, Daniel Truta – CONSIDERATION REGARDING TESTING OF LOW VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT AT ELECTRIC ARC AND THERMAL FACTOR ACTIONS (International conference on renewable energies and power quality (ICREPQ'07)", Sevilla-Spain, 2007)
- George Curcanu, Constantin Iancu, Daniel Truta – INSTALLATION FOR TESTING OF LOW VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT (National Conference and Exhibition of Energy – CNEE 2007, Sinaia-Romania, 2007)
- George Curcanu – INTERLABORATORY COMPARATIVE TESTS ON THE CALIBRATION OF THE SONGS FROM THE HIGH POWER LABORATORY OF ICMET CRAIOVA (National Conference and Exhibition on Energy – CNEE 2007, Sinaia-Romania, 2007)
- Andrei Marinescu, Cornel Chiciu, Horia Ionescu, Constantin Ilinca, Alexandru Ionescu – CALIBRATION LABORATORY OF HIGH CURRENT MEASURING DEVICES (1st International Proficiency Testing Conference, Sinaia-Romania, 2007)
Year 2006
- Curcanu George – CONSIDERATION ON METAL OXIDE SURGE ARRESTERS AT SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENT TEST (World Energy System Conference-Torino – WESC 2006)
- George Curcanu, Constantin Iancu, Cornel Chiciu – CONSIDERATIONS ON HIGH POWER ARC TESTING IN ALTERNATIVE CURRENT ON SINGLE AND DOUBLE SUPPORT CHAINS WITH COMPOSITE INSULATOR FOR OVERHEAD POWER LINES (FOREN 2006, WEC Regional Energy Forum, Neptun-Romania, 2006)
- Curcanu George, Toader Dumitru, Pandia Tanase – DETERMINATION OF OVERVOLTAGES IN HIGH VOLTAGE NETWORKS AT SINGLE PHASE FAULTS BY NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTS (12-th International IGTE Symposium, GRAZ, Austria, 2006)
- George Curcanu, Constantin Iancu, Cornel Chiciu – METHODS AND CIRCUITS FOR POWER ARC TEST IN AC CURRENT OF THE SIMPLE AND DOUBLE INSULATOR SERS WITH COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR AERIAL ELECTRIC LINES (8-th International Conference of Applied and Theoretical Electricity ICATE 2006, Baile Herculane – Romania, 2006)
- Corneliu Chiciu, Horia Ionescu, Constantin Ilinca, Alexandru Ionescu – CONTRIBUTION ON THE DEMONSTRATION OF TRACEABILITY IN MEASURING HIGH CURRENTS (8-th International Conference of Applied and Theoretical Electricity ICATE 2006, Baile Herculane-Romania, 2006)
Year 2005
- Corneliu Chiciu, Ilie Sbora, Constantin Ilinca, - BEHAVIOR OF THE EQUIPMENT IN THE METAL CASE AND OF THE TRANSFORMATION STATIONS UNDER THE ACTION OF THE INTERNAL ELECTRIC ARC (Romanian Electrical Engineering Week, Craiova – Romania, 2005)
- Curcanu George – MONITORING OF DEFECTS IN THE CONTROL AND COMMAND SYSTEMS OF SF6 CIRCUIT BREAKERS (XIXth edition of the NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM "ENERGY SYSTEM SAFETY" – SIG 2005, Sinaia-Romania, 2005)
- Curcanu George – SCHEMES AND METHODS FOR TESTING LOW VOLTAGE CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND SEPARATORS FOR SWITCHING CAPACITIVE CURRENTS IN THE LABORATORY AND THE NETWORK (PSC Timisoara, Romania, 2005)
Year 2004
- Cornel Chiciu – ICMET CRAIOVA HIGH POWER LABORATORY – PRESENT AND PERSPECTIVE (National Energy Conference CNE 2004, "Sustainable Energy Development and European Integration", Neptun, Romania, 2004)
- George Curcanu – CONSIDERATIONS ON TESTS OF METAL-OXIDE ARRESTORS AT SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENTS (National Energy Conference CNE 2004, "Sustainable Energy Development and European Integration", Neptun-Romania, 2004)
Year 2003
- George Curcanu – INFLUENCE OF INTERNAL ELECTRIC ARC ON THE DEMANDS IN SPDs AND CURRENT TRANSFORMERS DURING SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENT (5th International Conference on Electropower, Timisoara -Romania, 2003)
- George Curcanu, Eng. Horia Ionescu, Eng. Tanase Pandia – EXPERIMENTS FOR INTERNAL OVERVOLTAGES DETERMINATION IN MEDIUM VOLTAGES NETWORKS AT SINGLE-PHASE FAULT (XIII International Symposium on Electrical Equipment and Technologies, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2003)
Year 2002
- George Curcanu – DIAGNOSTIC AND MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELECTRICAL SWITCHING APPARATUS NETWORK (8th International Conference "Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment OPTIM 2002", Brasov -Romania, 2002)
- Cornel Chuciu, Constantin Ilinca, Alexandru Manta – CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE EVALUATION OF THE BEHAVIOR OF ELECTRICAL POWER EQUIPMENT UNDER THE ACTION OF INTERNAL ELECTRIC ARC (National Energy Conference CNE 2002, Neptun-Romania 2002)
- Cornel Chiciu – CIRCUITS AND METHOD FOR INTERNAL ELECTRIC ARC TESTING AT INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS (Einlandung zum Seminar Elektroenergiesysteme ung Hochspannungstechnik, Karlsruhe – Germany, 2002)
- George Curcanu – NUMERICAL MODELING OF TRANSIENT OVERVOLTAGE SHUNT REACTOR CURRENT SWITCHING IN 400 KV NETWORK (IGTE Symposium Gratz – Austria, 2002)
Participation in National Symposia
First National Symposium (2009)
„"Application of optoelectronic measurement and monitoring methods in the Romanian energy system", May 6-8, 2009, Cheia-Romania
- Alexandru Manta, Andrei Marinescu, Teodor Popa, Marinel Popescu – OPTOELECTRONIC HYBRID INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMER WITH DIGITAL OUTPUT COMPATIBLE WITH IEC 61850-9-2
- Andrei Marinescu, Alexandru Manta, Daniel Truta – FO MONITORING OF MOV PROTECTION DEVICES FOR POWER AUTOTRANSFORMERS
- Costel Caramida, Horia Ionescu, Andrei Marinescu, Daniel Truta, Alin Dinca, Alexandru Manta – FIBER OPTIC APPLICATIONS IN COMMANDS AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION REALIZED WITHIN ICMET INSTITUTE
Second International Symposium (2004)
SIMC-EE 2004, October 14-15, 2004, Baile Herculane – Romania
- Cornel Chiciu, Constantin Ilinca – THE HIGH POWER LABORATORY IN CRAIOVA. 30 YEARS SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT
- Alexandru Manta, Andrei Marinescu, Horia Ionescu, Daniel Truta – MEASUREMENT OF TRANSIENT PHENOMENA UNDER HIGH POTENTIAL BY OPTOELECTRONIC MEANS
- George Curcanu, Constantin Comes, M. Constantinov – CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE TESTING OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE CIRCUIT BREAKERS AT CAPACITIVE CURRENTS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS OF CEI 62271-100
- George Curcanu, Constantin Comes, I. Constantin – SWITCHING OF SMALL INDUCTIVE CURRENTS WHEN DISCONNECTING NO-LOAD TRANSFORMERS USING HIGH VOLTAGE CIRCUIT BREAKERS
- George Curcanu, Cornel Chiciu, Constantin Ilinca, M. Constantinov – CONSIDERATIONS ON METAL-OXIDE ARRESTORS IN SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENT TESTING
- Constantin Iancu, Constantin Ilinca, Alexandru Manta, Ilie Diaconescu, D. Stancu, Paul Ilinca – EXCITATION REGIME OF THE TI-100-2 SHOCK GENERATOR TYPE IN THE HIGH POWER LABORATORY
- Constantin Ilina, Cornel Chiciu, Ilinca Sbora – BEHAVIOR OF THE EQUIPMENT IN THE METAL CASE AND OF THE TRANSFORMATION STATIONS UNDER THE ACTION OF THE INTERNAL ELECTRIC ARC
- Horia Ionescu, George Curcanu, Cornel Chiciu, Constantin Ilinca, Daniel Truta, Mihai Ionescu, Andrei Marinescu, Alexandru Manta – MODERNIZATION OF MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE IN THE HIGH POWER LABORATORY
Third International Symposium (2007)
November 26-28, 2007 Baile Olanesti-Romania
- Alexandru Manta, Andrei Marinescu, Constantin Iancu, Alin Dinca – MEASUREMENT OF TRANSIENT HIGH CURRENTS THROUGH ROGOWSKI TECHNIQUE
- Andrei Marinescu, Alexandru Manta, Horia Ionescu, Daniel Truta, Mihai Ionescu, Alin Dinca, Mihaela Iovan -MODERNISATION OF MEASURING TECHNIQUE WITHIN ICMET HIGH POWER LABORATORY BY TRANSIENT RECORDER UTILIZATION
- Alexandru Manta, Alin Dinca, Costel Caramida, Horia Ionescu – A NEW SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMMER SYSTEM FROM HIGH POWER LABORATORY
- George Curcanu, Horia Ionescu, Daniel Truta – ASPECTS REGARDING LOW VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT TESTS IN ICMET HIGH POWER LABORATORY
- George Curcanu – FAILURE MONITORING FOR THE CONTROL-COMMAND SYSTEM OF SF6 CIRCUIT BREAKERS
- George Curcanu, Constantin Iancu – CONSIDERATION REGARDING SHORT-CIRCUIT TEST OF RECLOSER CIRCUIT-BREAKER
- Horia Ionescu, Andrei Marinescu, Mihai Ionescu, Daniel Truta, Mihaela Iovan – TRACEABILITY OF THE SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING THE SPECIFIC PHENOMENA TO HIGH POWER LABORATORY
- Alexandru Manta, Andrei Marinescu, Horia Ionescu, Daniel Truta, Alin Dinca – MEASUREMENT OF HIGH POTENTIAL TRANSIENT PHENOMENA BY OPTOELECTRONIC MEANS
- Cornel Chiciu, Horia Ionescu, Alexandru Ionescu – CALIBRATION OF HIGH CURRENT MEASURING SYSTEMS
SMDEE Symposium (2007)
„"Progress in monitoring and diagnosis of electrical power equipment" (first edition), November 26-28, Baile Olanesti-Romania
- Andrei Marinescu, Alexandru Manta, Daniel Truta, Constantin Iancu – MONITORING OF MOV PROTECTION DEVICES FOR POWER AUTOTRANSFORMERS
