EmPowr® Fill LF Lead-Free EAM Insulated Cable

Product description

Modernization Meets Environment 

To meet increasing energy demands, utilities today face considerable pressure to modernize the nation’s electrical power infrastructure. This includes upgrading aging underground cabling systems to reduce installation and maintenance costs by using cables with proven performance and designed to meet ever-increasing environmental regulatory requirements. In the most heavily loaded high-temperature circuits, some utilities have traditionally used medium-voltage cables with Ethylene Propylene Rubber (EPR) filled insulations stabilized with lead. These cables are preferred by some utilities over cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE & TRXLPE) due to their excellent heat aging, wet electrical stability, and flexibility. However, global efforts to reduce the use of lead in cables have prompted General Cable to re-engineer its products to be “green” without compromising the safety and performance required for these demanding applications. 

 

Designing for the Environment 

As a global leader in the energy cable industry, General Cable recognizes our role and responsibility towards environmental protection and sustainability in the 21st century. Through more than a decade of extensive research and development, General Cable has applied emerging technologies to remove lead from filled insulation in medium-voltage energy cables, while maintaining or exceeding the aging performance, electrical stability, and flexibility of our traditional EmPowr® Fill medium-voltage cable. 

 

EmPowr® Fill LF

The EmPowr Fill LF formulation is based on advanced polymer catalyst technology and nearly a decade of comprehensive testing, which has proven that this new, lead-free technology will deliver trouble-free service life and be fully compatible with existing infrastructure. This formulation is referred to as ethylene alkene copolymer with the designation of EAM. 

EmPowr Fill LF offers the same features and benefits you have come to know and trust from our EmPowr Fill formulation, such as:

  • Excellent ICEA Cable Core Qualification test performance
  • Excellent ac breakdown strength retention during ICEA AWTT
  • Cleaner base resins and compounds
  • Continuously mixed compounds
  • Class 10000 clean room packaging and compound transfer at cable plant
  • Meets ICEA Class III Insulation 105°C/140°C Conductor Temperature Rating
  • Low insulation shield adhesion and clean stripping
  • Low dissipation factor
  • Excellent flexibility characteristics 

 

Recognizing the challenges and transformations in the utility industry, Prysmian anticipated the need for a new, sustainable approach more than a decade ago. Advances in technology have enabled Prysmian to pioneer a medium-voltage cable that transforms how utilities distribute power in the 21st century. 

 

Long-term Reliability and Performance 

Innovative EmPowr Fill LF cables ensure electrical performance over the life of the cable, even in extreme conditions. Under accelerated wet (AWTT) and dry electrical testing, EmPowr Fill LF exhibits excellent results—displaying high ac breakdown retention and thermal stability even under high voltage and temperature.

 

Demonstrated Flexibility 

In flexibility tests using the same insulation thickness, EmPowr Fill LF compound demonstrated flexibility characteristics superior to traditional filled insulated cables for easier cable handling during installation that helps reduce cost.

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