5.11 5114 Technical Requirements: 5.11.2. HTM Material & Visual aspect:Silicone rubber used for coating (*) bottom sides of insulators shall be HTM (Hydrophobicity Transfer Material) material with environmentally friendly light Blue Color. 5.11.3. Mode of Coating of Insulators “Factory coated (Precoated) Insulators” & “Field (Mobile Plant) Coated Insulators”. As silicone Coating applied under factory conditions’ in controlled facilities, helps ensure a higher level of coating application quality and allows careful monitoring of thickness due to greater control and ‘optimization of all coating application processes including uniform curing of the coating & special real ime packaging of finish product, gives first priory to “Factory -Coated insulators, Field Coated insulators in a “Mobile plant” with semi or fully automated coating system with well controlled facilities that is located as close as possible fo the new line project. It is important to provide silicone coating with homogenous aspect and smooth surface and a uniform color. No drops, flow marks, runnels nor accumulation of silicone shall appear on the coated surfaces. Note: The Bidder is given option to choose between Factory Coating and or Field Mobile Coating. 5.11.4. Thickness of Silicone coating: 350 ym + 20% are required by as Optimal & Uniform thickness of Silicone coating. Acceptance criteria: The result is acceptable if the average of silicone thickness measurements performed on bottom side is in the range of 310-390 um. Silicone coating material shall have a high hydrophobicity class according to IEC TS 62073 including good retention & fast recovery and hydrophobicity transfer. Acceptance criteria: HC1 & HC2 classes are required. All other lower classes HC3 to HC7 will be rejected. See Hydrophobicity class table in Annex. |). 5.11.6. Resistance to tracking and erosion: Silicone coating shall be erosion resistant according to test method in IEC 60587 “Test method for evaluating resistance to tracking and erosion of electrical insulating materials used under severe ambient conditions’ or similar to the procedure indicated in IEC 62217. Note: Its recommended to perform such test according to method 1-IEC 60587 (constant tracking voltage) and to classify according to criterion A (current criterion = 60 mA). 5.11.7. Resistance to chemical and physical degradation by water: Silicone coating shall be chemical & physical degradation resistant according to IEC 62217 (even if this standard is focused on core material). The suitable test method is “Water Diffusion Test" well known as 100H boiling water test. Similar test method is described in IEC 60250. Note: The minimum IEC 62217 requirement is a 12 kV withstand voltage at a duration of 1 min. 5.11.8, Resistance to corona and ozone: Silicone rubber for coating shall be resistant to Corona & ozone according to IEC 60270.Note: There are a few standard procedures for testing corona (e.g. IEC 60270) and ozone resistance of materials. The resistance against ozone may possibly be covered by a corona test. 5.11.9 High Volume resistivity: Volume resistivity measurements can show the presence of conductive contaminants in insulation materials. The preferred test method is specified in IEC 60093. 5.11.10 Resistance to weathering and to heavy UV radiation exposure: Up to now the Xenon arc test as specified in ISO 4892-2 has been widely used and many references are available. 5.11.11. Arc Resistance: IEC 61621 is preferred for testing for the arc resistance of housing and structural materials. Note: According to service experience with polymeric composite insulators the minimum arc resistance time for the outdoor insulation material should be greater than 180 s. 5.11.12. Bonding & adhesion tests: a. 100 H boiling water tests: The tests should be performed according to IEEE 1523 2018 standard. Acceptance tests: After immersion in boiled water during 100H, all coated insulators should still show a smooth surface without any kind of bubbles or blisters... discoloration, b. High “Pressure Wash” or “Water Blasting” tests: Water blasting or high pressure wash the coated insulator at full pressure of 6.90 MPa (1000 psi) at a distance of 2 m. (see fig.2) according to IEEE 1523/2018 is also requested Acceptance tests: Coating that is adhered well to the surface can withstand this test for 3 minutes, while coating that is not bonded or weakly bonded will be blown off the surface with this test. Fig.2: Test set up for water Blasting ¢. Cross cut with single blade & Thickness uniformit Cross cut tests using single-blade cutting tool (see fig.3) is the second adhesion tests required by according to IS0.2409 standard (paragraph. 3.2.2). After 3 cross cut test on eachcoated surface at 120° interval, the cut area is then inspected and rated according to the percentage of the squared remaining on the tested insulator surface as shown in below Table 2 {ISO 2409 paragraph 8). Fig.3: Single blade cutting Table2: ISO & ASTM Classes Table 5.11.13. Silicone Coating Thickness Measurements & Uniformity Control: At the end of all required adhesion tests, 3 thickness measurements will be performed on 3 ‘opposite side spaced by an angle of 120 degrees (1, 2 &3 as shown in below Fig 4) of different undercoated disc surface (a, b, ¢ from pin side to border disc surface) with the view to check both the required uniformity of the Coating layers & thickness, Measurement of coating thickness could be also accomplished using any other method listed in ISO 2808 & the sampling E1 according to IEC 60383-1.3 Fig.4: Thickness measurements points (2, B & €)& position (1,28 3)