GE TRANSFORMERS

GE has been a key player in the energy industry for more than a century.  Since the installation of there first steam turbine in 1901. They have become number one provider of high-technology power generation equipment.

The President of GE, John Krenicki said,  the stability and growth of there business are possible in part to there customers, suppliers, employees and shareholders have confidence in us. "Doing what we say we are going to do" and "being who we say we are" are essential parts of this foundation.  Being a leader in the industry he believes there success is through fair, honest business dealings . GE is a company with a worldwide reputation for upholding the highest standards of business conduct, and maintaining that reputation is critically important.

GE global service center provides expert on-site and in-shop testing, repair, modernization and upgrade for transformers. They can manager your transformer and substation assets with the goal of minimizing cost and downtime. They can help increase reliability, improve profitability and reduce risk through transformer condition assessment.

They can use computer-assisted engineering to redesign the transformer to state-of-the-art condition, optimizing cost-effectiveness and minimizing lead time.

History of GE

We could write pages on GE history starting with Thomas Edison, but I thought the following bite of history was interesting.

Before Ronald Reagan launched his career in politics, he was well known to the American public as the Sunday evening host of the top rated television show, General Electric Theater. As the host, Reagan was the prominent public face for GE.

The first two seasons of General Electric Theater was popular plays, short stories and motion pictures. Then, in the third season, GE began to use the show as a means to educate viewers about the breadth of GE's Businesses...with Ronald Reagan as the voice.

Reagan took to the road, setting off on a tour of twelve GE plant cities in 1954 promoting the company people and products. By the time General Electric Theater concluded its eight-year run in 1962, Reagan was said to have visited GE's research and manufacturing facilities, and met nearly 250,000 individuals.

Some of GE Products:

• GE Control Power Transformers

• GE Commercial Pad-Mounted Transformers

• GE Commercial Pole-Mounted Transformers

• GE Ventilated Dry-Type Transformers

• GE Substation Transformers

• GE Construction Non-ventilated Transformers

• GE Current Transformers

Below are few of GE Transformers and there features:

Pole Mounted Transformers

FEATURES:

• GE Six-Sigma corporate wide quality initiative ensures quality design and manufacturing.
• Superior insulation and sealing systems.
• Transformers meet and exceed ANSI / IEEE test standards C57.12.00 and C57.12.90 and other international standards.
• Transformers have a sealed-tank oil-preservation system in which the interior is sealed from the atmosphere.
• Competitive lead-time in the industry.
• Flexibility to design to your economic models.

APPLICATIONS:

• Industrial, Commercial, Institutional, Government Applications.
• Small and Medium Commercial Fast Food & Strip Malls.
• Large Retail Stores.
• Wind Farm Turbine Step-Up .

Product Scope :

 
GE three phase padmount transformers are rated from 75 kVA up to 5000 kVA with high voltages ranging from 2,400 up to 34,500 delta or wye. The low voltage ranges from 208Y/120 through 24,940Y/14,400. The available Temp Rise is 55/65°C or straight 65°C.
GE single phase polemount transformers are rated from 167 kVA up to 500 kVA with high voltages ranging from 2400 up to 34500 gnd wye. Low voltage of 600 Volts and below . The available Temp Rise is 55/65°C or straight 65°C.
 

Liquid Filled Transformers

Liquid-filled transformers are designed for industrial and commercial applications such as chemical, cement, manufacturing plants, paper or steel mills, schools, hospitals, office buildings, etc. Liquid-filled units use sealed-tank construction that effectively contains the windings and most live parts in a controlled atmosphere. When specified, less-flammable liquid-filled units may be installed indoors.

FEATURES:

• NV Copper winding

• LV Aluminum winding

• ANSI standard accessories and instruments without contacts

• ANSI standard tests with Certified Test Report

• ANSI 61 paint

• Stronger 12 psi seal tank construction

• paint thickness with 5 mils of paint

• coordination with interfaces

• lower loss grain oriented silicon steel cores

• Lower sound level

• Wider range of accessories

• GE-Prolec ISO-14000 insures an environmentally complaint facility

• Competitive lead-time in the industry

• State of the art tools such as FEA used for electromagnetic field analysis and structural analysis

• Flexibility to design to your economic models.

APPLICATIONS:

• Low Loss Designs

• Rectifier Transformer Design

• Special Ambient Design

• Special/low Sound Level Designs

• 50 Hertz Designs

• Seismic Zone IV Design

• Retrofit to Specific Dimensions

• K-Factor Ratings

Product Scope:

• Designs for both secondary substations and small primary applications

• Capacity rating from 225 to 5,000 kVA

• Primary voltages up through 34.5kV with 200kV BIL

• Secondary voltages from 208 to 13,800V with 30 to 110kV BIL

• Designs can meet ANSI, NEMA, NOM, and IEC standards.

Control Power Transformers

Control Power transformers are designed to provide control power in medium voltage switchgear. Units are available in both single and three phase configurations with some models capable of vertical mounting to conserve space.

FEATURES:

• Manufactured to meet the requirement of IEEE C57.12.01.

• Primary windings are vacuum cast for high dielectric strength and ruggedness. Vacuum cast secondary coil are available in some models.

• Constructed with high quality grain-oriented core steel and copper conductor.

• Units are partial discharge tested in accordance with Canadian Standard C9-M1981.

• Standard voltages are 120/240 for single phase units and 208Y/120 for three phase units with other voltage available.

Product Scope:

• Voltage Class: 5 to 34.5 kV

• BIL ratings: 60 to 150 kV

• Thermal Ratings: o.5 to 150 kVA

 Power Transformer Information:

 Power Transformer Manufacturer

• ACME Transformers - With Acme Electric being in business over 80 years, they have always believed in offering there customers superior service, quality and technical expertise in the transformer market.
• AMVECO Transformers - AMVECO designs and manufactures toroids transformers, current transformers, and auto transformers. Most AMVECO products are custom designed utilizing their state-of-art proprietary CAD programs.  The AMVECO engineers can quickly generate designs in a matter of hours, if needed.
• Federal Pacific Transformers -  Federal Pacific is a division of Electro- Mechanical Corporation, a privately held, American owned company founded in 1958. Federal pacific offers dry-type transformers from .050 KVA through 10,000 KVA single and three phase, up to 34.5 KV, 150 KV BIL with UL approval through 15 KV.
• Marcus Transformer - Ever since they opened their doors for business a half a century ago, they have been a leader in innovative transformer design. As a family-owned company they are proud of the reputation they have earned for making quality-built transformers that deliver exceptional performance and savings.
• Hammond Transformers -  Hammond Manufacturing was founded in 1917 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. In the last 3 decades it has expanded to the US and the international markets offering many types of power transformers. 
• TEMCo Transformers - TEMCo Transformer, a family-owned business which has been manufacturing and distributing electrical products since 1968. They focus on transformers that significantly reduce power consumption over 30 percent compared to competitive makes.
• GE Transformers - GE has been a key player in the energy industry for more than a century.  Since the installation of their first steam turbine in 1901. They have become number one provider of high-technology power generation and distribution equipment.
• Jefferson Electric Transformers - Jefferson Electric has been a pioneer and innovator of magnetic products since 1915. Jefferson broad line of dry-type transformers are backed by quality assurance systems so stringent that each and every unit gets thoroughly tested before it goes out there door.
• More power transformer brands - Check out more companies by clinking this link.

 Power Transformer Types

• Distribution Transformers - Distribution transformers are generally used in electrical power distribution and transmission power. This class of transformer has the highest power, or volt-ampere ratings. and the highest continuous  voltage rating.
• Substation Transformers - Substation Transformers are large devices which usually weigh tens of thousands of pounds.   They are filled with tens of thousands of gallons of heat transfer fluid.  Although they are typically 99.8% efficient in the transforming of electricity from one voltage to another, processing hundreds of Mega Volts-Amps of electricity force the liberation of hundreds of BTUs per second.
• Medical Grade Isolation
   Transformer - Medical Grade Transformers generally refer to the transformers used in medical devices as well as hospital, biomedical and patient care equipment. There are a number of strict safety rules, guidelines and laws governing the design, construction and the test of these transformers.
• Drive Isolation Transformer - They are used to isolate a drive from a main power line to prevent the transmission of harmonics that the drives produce back into the power line.  They stop drive harmonics from disrupting computers and other sensitive equipment.
• Toroidal Transformers - Toroidal Transformers are more efficient than the cheaper laminated EI types of similar power level. Some of the advantages are smaller size, lower weight, less mechanical hum, (making them superior in audio amplifier), low-off-load loss.

  Power Transformer Types

• Step-Up Transformers - A Step-Up Transformer is one whose secondary voltage is greater than its primary voltage.  This kind of transformer "steps up" the voltage applied to it. -
• Step-Down Transformers - A Step-Down Transformer is  designed to reduce voltage from primary to secondary.  They can range from sizes from .05 KVA to 500 KVA
• Isolation Transformers - An Isolation Transformer is a device that transfers energy from the alternating current (AC) supply to an electrical or electronic load.  It isolates the windings to prevent transmitting certain types of harmonics.
• Buck Boost Transformers - Buck Boost Transformers make small adjustments to the incoming voltage. They are often used to change voltage from 208v to 240v for lighting applications.  Major advantages of Buck boost transformers include; low cost, compact size and light weight. 
• High Voltage Transformer - There are many different types of voltage transformers. A High Voltage Transformer operates with high voltages. Typically, these voltage transformers are used in power transmission applications, where voltages are high enough to present a safety hazard.
• Medium Voltage Transformers - A Medium Voltage Transformer can be connected directly to a primary distribution circuit and generally has the most load diversity. These voltage transformers have installation practices that are generally in accordance with application recommendations from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
• Low Voltage Transformers - A Low Voltage Transformer is an electrical device that transforms 120 volts (line voltage) into 12 volts or 24 volts (low voltage). Some uses for low voltage transformer are in landscaping lighting.
• Single Phase Transformers - In electrical engineering, single-phase electric power refers to the distribution of electric power using a system in which all the voltages of the supply vary in unison. Single-phase distribution is used when loads are mostly lighting and heating, with few large electric motors.
• Three Phase Transformers - Three Phase Transformers must have 3 coils or windings connected in the proper sequence in order to match the incoming power and therefore transform the power company voltage to the level of voltage needed while maintaining the proper phasing or polarity.
• Custom Transformers - Custom Transformers are designed for a certain performance specifications and size requirements.  The company works with your engineering specification. 
• Industrial Control Transformers - Industrial Control Transformers are used to convert the available supply voltage to the required voltage to supply industrial control circuits and motor control loads.
• Pad Mounted Transformers - Pad Mounted Transformers are usually single phase, or three phase, and used where safety is a main concern. Typical applications; restaurant, commercial building, shopping mall, institutional. 
• Pole Mounted Transformers - Pole Mounted Transformers are used for distribution in areas with overhead primary lines. Outside a typical house one can see one of these devices mounted on the top of an electrical pole.
• Oil Filled Transformers - Oil Filled Transformers are transformers that use insulating oil as insulating materials.  The oil helps cool the transformer. Because it also provides part of the electrical insulation between internal live parts, transformer oil must remain stable at high temperatures over an extended period.
• Dry Type Transformers - Dry-Type Transformers are available for voltages up through 34.5 kV (although the most common upper limit is 15) and KVA ratings up through 10,000 (with 5000 as the usual limit). Dry-type use air as a coolant, lowering health and environmentally concerns.
• Auto Transformers - An Autotransformer is an electrical transformer with only one winding. The winding has at least three electrical connection points called taps. Autotransformers are frequently used in power applications to interconnect systems operating at different voltage classes, for example 138 kV to 66 kV for transmission. Another application is in industry to adapt machinery built for 480 V supplies to operate on the local 600 V supply.
• More power transformer types - Read further about additional transformer types and their uses.

Power Transformer Term Definitions

• Electrical Transformers - Electrical Transformers are devices used to raise or lower the voltage of alternating current. For instance, power is transported over long distance in high voltage power lines and then transformers lower the voltage so that the power can be used by a business or household.
• Isolating Transformers - An Isolating Transformer is a transformer, often with symmetrical windings, which is used to decouple two circuits.  An Isolation transformer allows an AC signal or power to be taken from one device and fed into another without electrically connecting the two circuits. Isolation transformers block transmission of DC signals from one circuit to the other, but allow AC signals to pass. 
• Transmission Power Lines - A Transmission Line is the material medium or structure that forms all or part of a path from one place to another for directing the transmission of energy, such as electromagnetic or acoustic waves as well as electric power transmission. Components of transmission lines include wires, coaxial cables,  dielectric slabs, option fibers, electric power lines, and waveguides.
• Transformer Voltage - The measure of the amount of force on a unit charge because of the surrounding charge.
• Transformer Phase - Most transformer are either single phase or three phase.
• Transformer Frequency - The transformer cannot change the frequency of the supply. If the supply is 60 hertz, the output will also be 60 hertz.
• Transformer K Factor - Some transformers are now being offered with a k-factor rating. This measure the transformer's ability to withstand the heating effects of non-sinusoidal harmonic currents produced by much of today's electronic equipment and certain electrical equipment.
• Primary Voltage - The coil winding that is directly connected to the input power.
• Secondary Voltage - The coil winding  supplying the output voltage.
• Harmonic Cancellation - Harmonic cancellation is performed with harmonic canceling transformers also known as phase-shifting transformers. A harmonic canceling transformer is a relatively new power quality product for mitigating harmonic problems in electrical distribution systems. This type of transformer has patented built-in electromagnetic technology designed to remove high neutral current and the most harmful harmonics from the 3rd through 21st.
• Weatherproof - Enclosed transformers come with a weatherproof standard set by NEMA.
• Epoxy Encapsulated - A process in which a transformer or one of its components is completely sealed with epoxy or a similar material. This process is normally preferred when a unit might encounter harsh environmental conditions.
• More power transformer terms - Such as inductor, ground fault, core saturation, current transformer, faraday shield, etc.

Related Transformer Products

• Voltage Regulators - A Voltage Regulator is an electrical regulator designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage level.  It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or passive or active electronic components. Depending on the design, it may be used to regulate one or more AC or DC voltages.
• AC Line Reactor - AC Line Reactors is a three phase transformer used in conjunction with AC variable frequency and DC motor drive. They are a bi-directional protective filtering device.
• Line Power Conditioners - Power or Line Conditioners regulate, filter, and suppress noise in AC power for sensitive computer and other solid state equipment.
• DC Power Supplies - Conversion of one form of electrical power to another desired form and voltage. This typically involves converting 120 or 240 volt AC supplied by a utility company to a well-regulated lower voltage DC for electronic devices.
• Rotary Phase Converters - Rotary Phase Converters are commonly used in home or small commercial or industrial settings. Rotary phase converters convert single-phase power into three-phase power. This is a very cost-effective way to power three-phase electric motors and other three phase equipment.
• Frequency Converters - A Frequency Changer or Frequency Converter is an electronic device that converts alternating current (AC) of one frequency to alternating current of another frequency.
• Voltage Converters - A Voltage Converter changes the voltage of an electrical power source and is usually combined with other components to create a power supply.
• Magnetic Motor Starters - Magnetic Motor Starters are essentially heavy duty relays mounted in boxes, often equipped with heater/thermal overloads matched to the motor they start.
• Motor Starting Auto Transformers - An Auto Transformer starter uses an auto transformer to reduce the voltage applied to a motor during start. The auto transformer may have a number of output taps and be set-up to provide a single stage starter, or a multistage starter.

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