For more than 50 years, GE has supplied a broad range of reactors to markets around the world. With proven industry expertise, stringent quality controls, first class materials and full international compliance, GE’s reactors are designed to meet a wide variety of customer needs.
GE’s environmental-friendly, long-life, maintenance-free reactors enhance system performance and power quality from transmission and distribution to industrials, improving network operational efficiency. This results in considerable savings for customers and reduces the environmental impact of their operations.
GE’s team of experts analyze our customer’s power compensation needs from low voltage current limiting to high voltage shunt/series applications and engineer the right solutions to provide optimal efficiency and economy.
Reactors
Long life with maintenance-free operation and environmentally friendly design
For more than 50 years, GE has supplied a broad range of reactors to markets around the world. With proven industry expertise, stringent quality controls, first class materials and full international compliance, GE’s reactors are designed to meet a wide variety of customer needs.
GE’s environmental-friendly, long-life, maintenance-free reactors enhance system performance and power quality from transmission and distribution to industrials, improving network operational efficiency. This results in considerable savings for customers and reduces the environmental impact of their operations.
GE’s team of experts analyze our customer’s power compensation needs from low voltage current limiting to high voltage shunt/series applications and engineer the right solutions to provide optimal efficiency and economy.
Air-core Reactors
GE’s air-core reactors (ACR) provide a linear response of impedance versus current which is essential for numerous applications. GE’s reactors consist of aluminum or copper conductors, which are insulated with first class insulation materials. In encapsulated design, the conductors are mechanically immobilized and encapsulated by epoxy impregnated fiberglass, which assure high hygroscopic characteristic and long service life.
Why GE’s air-core reactors?
- Complete range of products and solutions in power compensation
- Long term expertise and know-how in power compensation projects
- Full line supplier with synergies between business and product lines
- Proven quality and performance of the products
- Worldwide presence with customer intimacy and proximity
- State-of-the-art in manufacturing process and machinery
Solution portfolio
Our portfolio of air-core reactors includes cost-effective solutions for power generation, transmission and distribution utilities, and industry:
- Shunt reactors
- Current-limiting reactors
- Neutral-earthing reactors
- Harmonic filter reactors
- Damping reactors
- Smoothing reactors
- Arc-furnace series reactors
- Power flow control reactors
- Motor starting reactors
- Special applications, such as test lab reactors
Series Application Challenge Integration of new power plants, transmission lines, power transformers and capacitor banks typically increases the normal, transient and short-circuit currents of the transmission and distribution networks. These new current levels exceed the current carrying capabilities of existing equipment. Solution GE’s series reactors provide a cost-effective solution to limit and/or reduce the excessive current levels under normal, transient and short time conditions, assuring quality, reliability and continuity of the power supply. | Shunt Application Challenge Transmission and distribution systems operating at low loading levels cause voltage increases in busbars and lines, resulting in insulation failures of the equipment on the grid and overall system instability. Solution GE’s shunt reactors provide system voltage control, operational flexibility, stability and reliability assuring long equipment life and continuity of power supply. |
Iron-core Reactors
 | HV iron-core reactors are connected in series with the capacitor units to form a series resonant circuit with very low impedance. GE’s line of iron-core reactors are ideal for a variety of applications including capacitor banks formed by several steps, several capacitor banks connected in the same busbar, and capacitor bank installations with risk of resonance or with presence of harmonics. Key benefits
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Applications for renewable generation, wind and solar farms:
| Applications for FACTS, HVDC LCC and VSC, and transmission and distribution substations:
| Applications for buildings and cities, oil and gas, and industry and infrastructure:
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Manufacturing Excellence
GE manufacturing plants are highly automated digital factories that use the GE Predix platform for machine learning and modeling.
Itajubá, Brazil Products manufactured in Itajubá, Brazil:
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References
For more than 50 years, GE has provided global support and advanced technologies to +1,000 customers in 80 countries, offering a broad range of reactors for many market segments. GE is an industry leader in design and manufacturing process with compliance in international technical and certification standards. Below are a select representation of our projects, a complete reference list is available upon request.
| 1. Canada (2016) HVDC Smoothing Reactors AC/DC Filter Reactors | 5. Peru & Colombia (2012-2018) Current Limiting Reactors Neutral Grounding Reactors Damping & Filter Reactors | 9. Scotland (2002) FACTS (SVC) | 13. South Korea (2014) HVDC Smoothing Reactors |
| 2. USA (1995-2018) FACTS – SVC & FSC Shunt Reactors Current Limiting Reactors Neutral Grounding Reactors Damping & Filter Reactors | 6. Chile (2010-2017) FACTS – SVC & FSC Current Limiting Reactors Neutral Grounding Reactors Damping & Filter Reactors | 10. France, Germany and Netherlands (2002-2018) Damping & Filter Reactors Neutral Grounding Reactors | 14. Thailand (2006-2018) Damping & Filter Reactors |
| 3. Mexico (2000-201) FACTS – SVC & FSC Current Limiting Reactors Damping & Filter Reactors | 7. Uruguay (2010) Melo HVDC | 11 Turkey (2008) FACTS (SVC) | 15. Malaysia (2002-2018) Damping & Filter Reactors |
| 4. Brazil (2012) Rio Madeira HVDC | 8. Brazil (1976-2018) FACTS (SVC & FSC) Current Limiting Reactors Neutral Grounding Reactors Damping & Filter Reactors Arc-Furnace Reactors Laboratory Reactors | 12. South Africa (1998-2018) Current Limiting Reactors Damping & Filter Reactors | 16. Australia (2010-2018) Shunt Reactors Damping & Filter Reactors |