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  • EPM has widespread usage commercially for rubbers formed by copolymerizing ethylene and propylene
  • EPDM has widespread usage commercially for terpolymers that include, in addition to ethylene and propylene, a relatively small proportion ofa diene.
  • Examples 1 and 2 respectively exemplify embodiments of the constructions of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • said outer layer composition having a 100 percent modulus at 130C substantially lower than said 100 percent modulus at 130 C of said inner layer composition
  • the cable of claim 10 comprising a layer of semiconducting strand shielding surrounding said conductor under said inner layer and bonding to said inner layer.

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An electric power cable comprises extruded strand shielding and an inner layer of rubber insulation such as ethylene-propylene copolymer or ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer rubber bonded by cross-linking to an outer layer of cross-linked polyethylene insulation.

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United States Patent [19] Plate [4 1 Feb. 12, 1974 ELECTRICAL CABLE [75] Inventor: Walter J. Plate, Rye, NY.
[73] Assignee: The Anaconda Company, New
York, NY.
[22] Filed: Dec. 29, 1972 [21] Appl. No.: 319,147
[52] U.S. Cl. 174/102 SC, 174/36, 174/106 SC, 174/107, 174/120 SC [51] Int. Cl. HOlb 7/18 [58] Field of Search 1'74/102 SC, 120 R, 120 SR, 174/120 SC, 110 AR, 110 S, 110 R, 110 PM,
120 AR, 36, 106 SC, 107
[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,187,071 6/1965 Padziejowski 174/120 AR ll/l966 3/1971 l-Ivizd 174/120 R Garner 174/110 AR FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 1,168,128 [0/1969 Great Britain 174/120 SC Primary ExaminerE. A. Goldberg Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Victor F. Volk 5 7 ABSTRACT An electric power cable comprises extruded strand shielding and an inner layer of rubber insulation such as ethylene-propylene copolymer or ethylenepropylene-diene terpolymer rubber bonded by crosslinking to an outer layer of cross-linked polyethylene insulation.
16 Claims, 2 Drawing Figures PATENTEU FEB 21974 ELECTRICAL CABLE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION It has been known to insulate electric power cables 5 linked polyethylene does not evidence the stress cracking associated with thermoplastic polyethylene and functions satisfactorily at higher temperatures, Although millions of feet of cross-linked polyethylene cable do operate without fault, some deficiencies of cross-linked polyethylene have been noted. For example, cross linked polyethylene does not resist corona attack as well as certain rubbers. Cross-linked polyethylene has a high elastic modulus that makes cables having thick walls of such insulation relatively stiff and inflexible. It expands considerably when heated and may evidence the phenomenon of treeing under the electrical stresses encountered in normal operation.
Cables have also beenisuccessfully made with ethylene-propylene and ethylene-propylene-diene rubbers, known respectively as EPM and EPDM, for insulation. These materials behave like other rubbers in having a high flexibility and retention of physical properties at elevated temperatures and have high resistance to corona attack. They do not expand as much upon heating as does polyethylene but neither do they have as high a dielectric strength as the latter. EPM and EPDM do not extrude smoothly unless they have been compounded with a filler, such as clay, and this has the effect of raising the specific inductive capacitance 5 (S.I.C.) of the composition to a value greater than that of polyethylene. While the rubberiness or resilience of EPM and EPDM has the advantage of making cables more flexible, polyethylene has greater toughness and resistance to deformation at ordinary cable temperatures.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION I have invented a cable that has excellent corona resistance on the inside of the insulation, where the electrical stresses have their highest values, and expands less on heating in this area, where the conductor generates high temperatures. On the outside, the insulation retains a relatively hard, tough consistency, during installation and normal operations, characteristic of crosslinked polyethylene. My new cable comprises a metallic conductor, a layer of extruded strand shielding surrounding the conductor, a layer of ethylenepropylene copolymer or ethylene-propylene-diene rubber surrounding the layer of strand shielding, a layer of A useful embodiment of my invention comprises a metallic conductor, preferably with a layer of semiconducting strand shielding surrounding the conductor, and an inner layer of rubber-based insulating composition, surrounding the conductor and any semiconducting strand shielding, and having a percent modulus at C of at least 50 percent of its 100 percent modulus at 25 C. An outer layer of vulcanized polymerbased insulating composition surrounds and bonds to the inner layer. This outer layer' composition has a 100 percent modulus at room temperature substantially higher than the 100 percent modulus at room temperature of the inner layer composition, and a 100 percent modulus at 1309C. substantially lower than the 100% modulus at 130 C of the inner layer composition.
l referably the inner layer composition comprises filler material blended therewith, thereby increasing its specific inductive capacitance to a value above 3, substantially exceeding the specific inductive capacitance of the outer layer composition. The inner and outer layers of this cable preferably comprise a common crosslinking agent such, for a preferred example, as di-acumyl peroxide, and, in a preferred embodiment, a semiconducting polymeric jacket directly surrounds the outer layer.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE APPENDED DRAWING FIG. 1 shows a section of a cable of my invention. FIG. 2 shows a section of another embodiment of the cable of my invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The cable 10 comprises a metal conductor 11 which may have a stranded or solid configuration, surrounded by a layer 12 of extruded semiconducting polymeric composition having a smooth cylindrical outersurface. The layer 12 may consist of thermoplastic or vulcanizible compositions or have partial vulcanization as described in Arnaudin et al. U.S. Pat. No. 3479446, incorporated herein, by reference. Directly over the layer 12 I have extruded the layer 13 of a synthetic rubber composition based on either EPM or EPDM.
The term EPM has widespread usage commercially for rubbers formed by copolymerizing ethylene and propylene, and the term EPDM has widespread usage commercially for terpolymers that include, in addition to ethylene and propylene, a relatively small proportion ofa diene. U.S. Pats. No. 2933480 and 3151 173, incorporated herein by reference, enumerate a number of suitable dienes, such as hexadienes and norbornadienes. A review of the art of EPM and EPDM referred to generically therein by-the term polyolefin elastomers appeared in an article by RP. Baldwin and G.
Ver Strate in Vol. 45, No. 3, Apr. 30, 1972, of Rubber Chemistry and Technology, pp 709-881. The compositions of the layer 13 incorporate, in addition to the usual minor compounding ingredients, a di-a-cumyl peroxide for cross-linking and 20-60 percent by weight of filler, such as clay filler, intimately dispersed. The filler has the function of reducing the nerve of the rubber composition so that it will extrude smoothly but it also has the effect of increasing the specific inductive capacitance. As I shall explain, the higher S.I.C. proves to have an advantage in my new cable construction.
Over the layer 13 I have extruded a layer 14 of polyethylene insulation also incorporating di-a-cumyl peroxide for cross-linking. Heating for vulcanization of the insulation does not proceed until I have extruded both layers 13 and 14, with the results that, since they both employ the peroxide for cross-linking, the layers crosslink together at their interface in a firm bond. This bonding prooves to have great importance to the superior performance of the cable since the layer 14 of polyethylene has a much higher thermal coefficient of expansion than the rubber layer 13 and would separate from the layer upon heating in the absence of a bond. Separation of the layers would create voids within which corona discharges would occur when the cable becomes highly stressed electrically. I have applied a semiconducting layer 16, preferably formed of extruded polymeric compound, directly over the layer 14 to constitute the insulation shielding layer, and this has a covering of copper or aluminum shielding tapes 17, covered, in turn, by an extruded protective jacket 18. I can use any of a number of known cable jacketing materials for the jacket 18 of which I consider compositions based on polyvinyl chloride, neoprene, and butyl rubber as particularly suitable. In FIG. 2 I have shown a similar cable 20, differing from the cable 10 by the omission of the layers 16-18 for which I substitute a semiconducting polymeric jacket 21 having embedded drain wires 22, such as I have joined in describing in Plate et al. US. Pat. No. 3474189.
Examples 1 and 2 respectively exemplify embodiments of the constructions of FIGS. 1 and 2.
Extruded semiconducting jacket 6 No. 17 Awg. copper drain wires The cables of Examples 1 and II exhibited the S.l.C. and power factors listed in Table I at the tabulated temperatures and electric stresses.
TABLE I I Example 1 Example 11 volts/mil S.l.C. %p.f. S.l.C. %p.f. Room temperature 20 2.68 0.170 2.74 0.360 40 2.68 0.208 2.74 0.361 2.68 0.211 2.74 0.365 2.68 0.215 2.74 0.369 C 20 2.51 0.489 2.58 0.620 40 2.51 0.495 2.58 0.625 60 2.51 0.510 2.58 0.631 80 W 2.51 0.5 15 2.58 0.638 130 C 20 2.38 0.830 2.43 0.931 40 2.38 0.855 2.43 0.949 60 2.38 0.871 2.43 0.965 80 2.38 0.885 2.43 0.979
The power factors of the tables of Examples I and II varied with frequency as tabulated in Table II at the indicated temperatures.
In Table III I report the results of loading the cable of Example Ito C conductor temperature 8 hours each day for 100 working days in accelerated aging tests, while applying A-C voltage equal to two times rated voltage to ground continuously throughout the duration of the test. The table reports properties monitored prior to current loading at the beginning of each day.
"T'Aniiiii Corona 20 v./mil. 60 v./mil. 100 v./mil.
Cable temp. Level (kV) Percent Percent Percent Time on test C. A B" SIC pf. SIC pf. SIC pf.
Intial 26.0 50.0 Clear 2.71 0.138 2.71 0.200 2.71 0.200 1 day.... 26.7 50.0 Clear. 2.70 .165 2.71 .209 2.71 .207 7 days... 29.0 50.0 Clear 2.69 .150 2.69 .190 2.69 .197 l 14 days. 27.8 50.0 Clear. 2.68 .110 2.68 .141 2.68 .135 28 days. 28.5 50.0 Clear 2.67 .086 2.67 .119 2.67 .118 42 days, 25.2 50.0 Clear. 2.67 .082 2.67 .112 2.67 .104 25.0 50.0 Clear 2.67 .068 2.67 .098 2.67 .093
70 days t Example I current loading: 483 am s...
Table IV tabulates the results of testing the cable of Example II following the procedure of Table III.
6 A terpolymer formulation suitable for the layer 13 has the composition of Table IX.
of Example 11 in water at 90 C and testing at the indicated intervals.
TABLE V1 7 40 v ./mil. 80 v./mil. 1000 Hz. 7
7 Time Percent Percent Percent LR. megimmersed SIC pf. SIC pf. SIC pf. ohms-M 24 hours.. 2.62 0.907 2.62 0.803 2.61 0.274 5,357 7 days..... 2.59 .365 2.59 .360 2.61 .262 4,513 14 days... 2.60 .720 2.61 .720 2.61 .242 4,573 28 days... 2.58 .300 2.58 .303 3,747 2 months. 2.64 g .500 2.64 .563 3,400
Table v ll reports 0566616 of immersing the cable of Example I in water at 90 C for two months while rislvni166665156 results of iniir tersing the cable of Example II for two months in water at 90 C while stressed at 34.6 kV, A-C i AQEE I 40 v./mil. s0 vJmil. 1000 Hz.
7 Percent Percent Percent I.R. megirnmerse? SIC pf. SIC pf. SIC pf. Ohms-M 24hours.. 2.61 0.611 2.61 0.675 2.63 0.244 6.000 7 days..... 2.60 .340 2.60 .410 2.63 .241 4,680 14 days... 2.60 .576 2.61 .791 2.63 .229 4,666 28 daysmi 2.60 .559 2.61 .721 3,647 2, months-' 2.63 721 2 4 Table VI tabulates the results of immersing the cable TABLE IV Corona 20 v./mil. 60 v./mil. 100 v./mil. Cable temp. Level (kV) Percent Percent Percent Time on test C. A* B* SIC pf. SIC pf. SIC pf.
50.0 0.315 2.73 0.281 2.73 0.280 50.0 .197 2.72 .256 2.72 .268 44.0 .240 2.69 .202 2.69 .196 43.5 .170 2.68 .154 2.68 .140 43.0 .176 2.67 .133 2.67 .125 50.0 .171 2.66 .124 2.66 .115 50.0 Clear 2.67 .122 2.67 .101 2.67 .104
Example 11 current loading: 514 amperes TABLE IX Table V tabulates the results of immersing the cable o pts. by wt. of Example l in water at C and testing at the indi- Nordeh 1040 m0 cated intervals. c r black 10 2 1 silicone treated clay 1 1( FABLE v 20 lead oxide 5 all ne 1 u 40 v./mll. I so v./mil. v 10001-12. ,2 'd b Time Percent Percent Percent 1.R.megf,',,", l5 immersed SIC pf. SIC pf. SIC pf. ohms-M ffi 5 4 l 'd 3.5 24 hours" 0'436 0'520 0116 10247 *Nord l 1:15:22; 1:12:61; as a trademark ofE l du Pont de Nemours 7 days..... 2.62 .443 2.62 .502 2.67 .224 3,760 25 g 14 d 2 62 393 2 62 465 2 64 220 5 683 & Co., Inc. for ethylene-propylene-d|ene terpolymers. Nordel 1040 28 5260 comprises 14 hexadiene, according to the literature of the supplier. 2 months. 265 1607 2:65 .624 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 31420 A copolymer formulation suitable for the layer 13 has the composition of Table X.
TABLE X pts. by wt. Vistalon* 404 zinc oxide 5 Translink** 1 10 carbon black 10 Agerite*** Resin D 1.5 PbO 3 silane l di-a-cumyl peroxide 2.7 sulphur 0.3
* registered as trademark of Enjay Chemical Co. for ethylenepropylene copolymer.
** registered as trademark of Freeport Kaolin Co. for silicone treated clay.
*" registered as trademark of R.T. Vanderbuilt Co., Inc. polymerized trimethyldihydroquinollne antioxidant.
The copolymers and terpolymers suitable for use in the layer 13 will have molecular weight, prior to vulcanization, of 100,000 to 1,000,000 and an ethylene conber and plastic technology employ the 100% modulus at a given temperature as a reproducible parameter, convenient for comparing different materials. They determine the 100% modulus as the stress in load-perunit-section required to elongate a specimen 100%. A chart of the 100% modulus, in pounds per square inch, of butyl and EPM rubbers and filled and non-filled cross-linked polyethylene over a range of temperatures appears in IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, April, 1968, page 1,142, and I include this chart by reference in this application. The chart shows polyethylene to have a substantially higher 100 percent modulus at room temperature than the rubbers, but a substantially lower modulus,when non-filled, than the rubbers at 130 C. At 130 C the 100 percent modulus of polyethylene drops to less than one-third its value at 25 C while the 100 percent modulus of EPM at 130 C exceeds its value at 25 C. For usefulness in the cable army invention the 100 percent modulus of the composition of the rubber layer 14 should not drop more than about 50 percent between 25 and 130 C. Rubber compositions that retain their modulus at increased temperature and can have utility in the practice of this invention, may incorporate minor proportions of polyethylene or other thermoplastic materials. Particularly up to about 30 parts of polyethylene may be incorporated into the EPM or EPDM compositions of my layer per hundred parts of rubber, within the scope of my invention. Similarly, my outer layer 14 may comprise small proportions of rubber. Particularly, a polyethylene composition used for the layer 14 may incorporate to P rts orsr mrssom for 160 Bart;
of polyethylene. An additional terpolymer formulation suitable for the layer 13 and used as the EPDM composition in Examples l and II appears in Table XI.
TABLE XI pts. by wt. Nordel 1040 100.0 polyethylene l0.0 Translink l20.0 carbon black 5.0 litharge 6.0 antioxidant 1.0 paraffin 3.0 paraffinic oil 10.0 silane 1.5 di-a-cumyl peroxide 3.0 sulphur 0.3
The flat temperature modulus curve of rubbers, hereinabove noted, has particular value for high-voltage cables with thick walls of insulation because such insulation constitutes a heat barrier confining heat generated by the conductor. For this reason my invention has particular utility in cables with a radial insulation thickness of at least 250 mils.
I determine the addition of clay or other filler to the rubber composition by processing requirements and generally do not exceed the quantity required for good extrusion except that I do not add less than the quantity 3. The 81C. of the composition of T able IX tested at about 3.9, so that processing, rather than grading requirements determine the practical filler content. Persons skilled in rubber compounding can calculate the percentage of filler to be added to achieve a desired S.I.C. of a rubber composition from the known S.I.C. values of the filler material and the uncompounded polymeric stock.
From the high initial corona inception values of Tables III and IV it becomes clear that the bond at the interface between the inner EPDM and outer polyethylene layers has not parted in spite of the fact that the polyethylene has a much greater coefiicient of thermal expansion than the terpolymer. The inner layer, due to its clay inclusion, has an S.I.C. of about 3.9 while the polyethylene has an S.I.C. of about 2.3. My cable thus gains the advantage of grading by having a greater S.I.C. material adjacent to the conductor where the -tequir t zri mll Si t- Of the comgosilion jp greatest stress concentration appears. In prior art attempts to employ polymers for purposes of grading a cable insulation, a discontinuity or void has always become evident between the layers having different polymeric bases. A unique feature of my invention resides in the bonding together of layers of different polymers forming compositions of different S.I.C. by means of a common vulcanizing agent that cross-links across the layer interface.
For the cross-linking agent of Examples I and II I used di-a-cumyl peroxide, but other vulcanizing agents can be used within the scope of my invention provided only that they can affect the cross-linking of both the rubber layer 13 and plastic layer 14 so that the two bond together. A number of suitable vulcanizing agents for olefins have been enumerated in US. Pats. No. 2,888,424 and 3,036,982 which I incorporate herein, by reference. 7
In the manufacture of my cable I extrude four different layers over the conductor: the strand shielding 12, the rubber insulation 13, the polyethylene insulation 14, and the insulation shielding 16. I may accomplish all these extrusions within one extrusion head of appropriate known design, or may pass the core having each extruded layer directly into another extrusion head to apply the next layer. I may also practice combinations of such multiple and tandem extrusions. For example, I may apply the strand shielding in one head, and follow with a dual application of the rubber and polyethylene insulation, followed, in turn, by tandem application of the insulation shielding 16. The same range of choices applies to the cable 20 with the strand shield replaced by the jacket 21. I always apply the jacket 18, of course, in a tandem or separate operation.
I have invented a new and useful electric cable of which I have made the foregoing description exemplary rather than definitive, and forwhich I desire an award of Letters Patent as defined in the appended claims.
I claim:
1. An electric cable comprising:
A. a metallic conductor, 7
B. a layer of semi-conducting strand shielding surrounding said conductor,
C. a layer of insulation selected from the group consisting of ethylene-propylene copolymer and ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer rubbers surrounding said layer of strand shielding,
D. a layer of electrically insulating cross-linked polyethylene insulation' s'urrounding said layer of rubher and bonding thereto, and,
E. a polymeric jacket surrounding said layers of insulation.
2. The cable of claim 1 wherein said rubber layer comprises ethylene-propylene copolymer.
3. The cable of claim 1 wherein said rubber layer comprises ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer.
4. The cable of claim 2 wherein said copolymer comprises filler material blended therewith, thereby increasing the specific inductive capacitance of said copolymer to a value above 3. i
5. The cable of claim 3 wherein said terpolymer comprises filler material blended therewith, thereby increasing the specific inductive capacitance of said terpolymer to a. value above 3. v
6. The cable of claim 1 wherein said layers of insulation bond to each other at their interface by molecular cross-linking.
TiThEabldf claim 6 wherein said layers of insula tion comprise a common cross-linking agent.
8. The cable of claim 7 wherein said agent comprises di-a-cumyl peroxide.
9. The cable of claim 1 wherein said jacket comprises a semiconducting composition applied directly over said layer of polyethylene.
10. An electric case'cam rising A. a metallic conductor,
B. an inner layer of rubber-based insulating composi tion surrounding said conductor, said composition having a 100 percent modulus at 130 C of at least 50 percent of the 100 percent modulus of said composition at 25 C,
C. an outer layer of vulcanized polymer-based insulating composition surrounding said inner layer, a. said outer layer bonding to said inner layer,
b. said outer layer composition having a 100 percent modulus at room temperature substantially higher than the 100 percent modulus at room temperature of said inner layer composition,
0. said outer layer composition having a 100 percent modulus at 130C substantially lower than said 100 percent modulus at 130 C of said inner layer composition, and
d. the modulus at 130 C of said outer layer composition not exceeding one-third of the modulus at 25 C of said outer layer composition, and e. said inner and said outer layers together totaling at least 250 mils in radial thickness.
11. The cable of claim 10 comprising a layer of semiconducting strand shielding surrounding said conductor under said inner layer and bonding to said inner layer.
12. The cable of claim 10 wherein said inner layer composition comprises filler material blended therewith, thereby increasing the specific inductive capacitance of said inner layer composition to a value above

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  1. 2. The cable of claim 1 wherein said rubber layer comprises ethylene-propylene copolymer.
  2. 3. The cable of claim 1 wherein said rubber layer comprises ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer.
  3. 4. The cable of claim 2 wherein said copolymer comprises filler material blended therewith, thereby increasing the specific inductive capacitance of said copolymer to a value above 3.
  4. 5. The cable of claim 3 wherein said terpolymer comprises filler material blended therewith, thereby increasing the specific inductive capacitance of said terpolymer to a value above 3.
  5. 6. The cable of claim 1 wherein said layers of insulation bond to each other at their interface by molecular cross-linking.
  6. 7. The cable of claim 6 wherein said layers of insulation comprise a common cross-linking agent.
  7. 8. The cable of claim 7 wherein said agent comprises di- Alpha -cumyl peroxide.
  8. 9. The cable of claim 1 wherein said jacket comprises a semiconducting composition applied directly over said layer of polyethylene.
  9. 10. An electric cable comprising: A. a metallic conductor, B. an inner layer of rubber-based insulating composition surrounding said conductor, said composition having a 100 percent modulus at 130* C of at least 50 percent of the 100 percent modulus of said composition at 25* C, C. an outer layer of vulcanized polymer-based insulating composition surrounding said inner layer, a. said outer layer bonding to said inner layer, b. said outer layer composition having a 100 percent modulus at room temperature substantially higher than the 100 percent modulus at room temperature of said iNner layer composition, c. said outer layer composition having a 100 percent modulus at 130* C substantially lower than said 100 percent modulus at 130* C of said inner layer composition, and d. the modulus at 130* C of said outer layer composition not exceeding one-third of the modulus at 25* C of said outer layer composition, and e. said inner and said outer layers together totaling at least 250 mils in radial thickness.
  10. 11. The cable of claim 10 comprising a layer of semiconducting strand shielding surrounding said conductor under said inner layer and bonding to said inner layer.
  11. 12. The cable of claim 10 wherein said inner layer composition comprises filler material blended therewith, thereby increasing the specific inductive capacitance of said inner layer composition to a value above 3, said value substantially exceeding the specific inductive capacitance of said outer layer composition.
  12. 13. The cable of claim 10 wherein said inner and outer layer compositions comprise a common cross-linking agent.
  13. 14. The cable of claim 12 wherein said inner and outer layer compositions comprise a common cross-linking agent.
  14. 15. The cable of claim 10 comprising a semiconducting polymeric jacket directly surrounding said outer layer.
  15. 16. The cable of claim 14 wherein said cross-linking agent comprises di- Alpha -cumyl peroxide.
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