Sitras 8DA11 / 8DA12

1-/2-pole gas-insulated switchgear for

AC traction power supply

siemens.de/rail-electrification

The SF6-insulated switchgear of the type Sitras 8DA11 (1-pole) and

Sitras8DA12 (2-pole) are intended for f eeding the overhead contact line
sections in AC traction power supply systems.
The design is based on the proven 3-pole type of the switchgear 8DA10 / 8DB10
for power supply companies and industrial plants.

Features
Maximum safety of personal and installation proven by extensive type testing
Cost-effective because maintenance-free and compact design
Almost boundless flexibility for all imaginable requirements due to modular
design
Vacuum circuit-breaker, by switching in vacuum
no creation of toxic substances by arcs in SF6
insulating properties of SF6 not impaired
Risk of internal arc faults reduced by single-pole enclosure

Requirements
Design, technology
Metal-enclosed, metal-clad, gas-insulated fixed-mounted
circuit-breaker switchgear for indoor installation
Single-pole metal enclosure
Insulating gas SF6
Vacuum circuit-breaker
Three position disconnector as busbar disconnector and
feeder earthing switch
Make-proof earthing with vacuum circuit-breaker
Panel spacing 600 mm with all versions

Modular construction with standard enclosures gives

flexibility for panel variations and additional modules
Extension of busbar possible without interrupting
operation
Panels with new design can be added to existing switchgear without any measures (same panel height, same
busbar position)
Dielectric strength independent of site altitude and
climatic conditions

Resistance to internal arc faults

The probability of the occurrence of an arc fault is an order
of magnitude less than with air-insulated switchgear,
because
all causes of faults due to external factors such as
pollution layers, moisture, vermin and foreign bodies
have been eliminated,
maloperation is prevented by mechanical interlocking
and
the feeder is short-circuit-proof earthed by the threeposition disconnector in combination with the vacuum
circuit-breaker.
The single-pole enclosure of the primary conductor only
allows earth-fault arcing to occur between the conductor
and the earthed metal enclosure.
By subdividing the switchgear into different gas compartments, the effects of possibly occuring internal arc faults
are limited to the related gas compartment.

Standards
The switchgear conforms to the f ollowing standards (and
the previous versions respectively applicable at the time of
the type test):
General standards:
IEC 62271-1, IEC 62271-200
Standards for railway applications
EN 50124, EN 50152, EN 50163

Sitras 8DA12 with special solutions

(Projekt: Oslogate, Norway)

Main components
Panel design

Insulation system

Fully insulated
Single-pole metal-enclosure
Metal-clad
Cast-aluminium basic structure
Panel frame for supporting the poles and the front of
the panel and for forming the cable connection
compartment
Low-voltage compartment contains all protection,
control, measuring and metering equipment

Panel housings filled with SF6 gas;

Features of the insulating medium SF6:
Non-toxic
Odourless and colourless
Non-inflammable
Inert
Heavier than air
Electronegative (high-quality insulator)

Single-pole design

Gas compartments

Consisting of vertical housing containing the vacuum

interrupter and above mounted horizontal enclosure
containing the three-position disconnector and busbar
Individual gas-tight compartments for
circuit-breakers
three-position disconnector, busbar
For double-pole version Sitras 8DA12 tandem
arrangement of poles

Gas-pressure monitoring by contact manometer with

signaling contacts for pressure rise or fall
Leakage rate per gas compartment through seals
<0.1 % per annum, no replenishing of the SF6 gas charge
required over the life cycle of the switchgear

2
7

5
9

9
10

10

Sitras 8DA11
1
2
3
4

Low-voltage compartment
Electronical control board
Operating mechanism and interlock for three-position disconnector as well as mechanical switch position indication
for three-position disconnector and circuit-breaker
Manometer for gas monitoring of feeder gas compartments

Sitras 8DA12
5 Circuit-breaker operating mechanism
6 Voltage detection system
7 Busbar
8 Circuit-breaker pole housing
9 Current transformer
10 Cable connection from bottom

Vacuum circuit-breakers

Voltage transformers

Making and breaking performed by contacts inside the

vacuum interrupter
SF6 gas surrounding the interrupters insulates them
from the earthed pole enclosure (so the dielectric
properties of the SF6 are unaffected by make / break
operations)
Electrical service life dependent on breaking currents
(see diagrams)
Interrupter(s) operated by a (common) breaker shaft
from the operating mechanism housed in the front of
the panel
Normal opening time <60*ms by use of the first shunt
release
Total breaking time (at 50 Hz) <75* ms

Inductive cast-resin insulated voltage transformer can be

mounted on the busbar or on the panel connections

* other values on request

Toroidal-core current transformers

CLOSED: Contact blades connected with the busbars:

Main circuit closed between busbar and circuit-breaker
OPEN: Main circuit open between busbar and circuitbreaker: Test voltages for isolating distances are
withstood
READY-TO-EARTH: Contact blades connected with the
earthing contact of the busbar housing: Feeder earthed
and short-circuited by closing the circuit-breaker
Optional: Up to 10.000 operating cycles for disconnector
and earthing switch

Panel connections

Mounted outside the SF6 switchgear housings and

therefore safely accessible
Free of dielectrically stressed cast-resin parts

Fully-insulated panel connections available for

inside-cone plug-in system
Multiple connections possible per phase
Plug-in surge arresters can be connected

Permissible operating cycles

Permissible operating cycles

Three-position disconnector

100000

20000
10000

100000

20000
10000

1000

1000

100

80

50

30

10

10

10

25 31.5

100

Breaking current in kA (rms value)

Electrical service life 16.7 Hz vacuum circuit-breaker

10

31,5

100

Breaking current in kA (rms value)

Electrical service life 50/60 Hz vacuum circuit-breaker

Range of application
Example: Overview diagram for single phase system

-T15

-T15
25kV / 50Hz
-Q1

-Q1

-Q1

-Q10

-Q1

-Q1

-Q0

-Q0

-Q0

-Q0

-Q0

-T1

Contact line
feeder panel

-T1

-T1

-T1

Bus sectionalizing
consisting of 2 panels

Incoming panel with

voltage transformer

-T1

Contact line
feeder panel

Incoming panel with

voltage transformer

Example: Overview diagram for double phase system (autotransformer system)

-T15L1

-T15L2

-T15L1

-T15L2

-Q11

-Q11

-Q10

2 AC 50 Hz 25 kV

-Q1

-Q1

-Q1

-Q1

-Q1

-Q1

-Q0

-Q0

-Q0

-Q0

-Q0

-Q0

-T1L1

-T1L2

Contact line
feeder panel

-T1L1

-T1L2

Incoming panel with

voltage transformer

-T1L1

-T1L2

-T1L1

Contact line feeder panels

with bus sectionalizing without
additional space requirement

-T1L2

-T1L1

-T1L2

Incoming panel with

voltage transformer

-T1L1

-T1L2

Contact line
feeder panel with
busbar cable
connection

Example: Overview diagram for multiple busbar system

-T15
-Q15

-Q1

-Q7

-Q6

-Q0

-Q1

-Q7

-Q6

-Q0

-T17

-T16

-T18

-Q16

-Q1
-Q0

-Q1
-Q0

-Q1

-Q7

-Q0

-T1L1

-T1L1

-T1L1 -T1L2

-T1L1 -T1L2

-T1L1 -T1L2

-T2L1

-T2L1

-T2L1 -T2L2

-T2L1 -T2L2

-T2L1 -T2L2

1-pole contact line

feeder panel

1-pole contact line

feeder panel

Coupler panel
busbar with test busbar

Autotransformer
panel

2-pole contact line

feeder panel

-Q6

Dimensions

Sitras 8DA11
1

Fixing hole

Base frame

Sitras 8DA12
3

Floor opening for

high-voltage cables

2
4

Floor openings for

control cables

Mechanical data
Type
Degree of protection, primary part
Degree of protection, secondary part*

Sitras 8DA11

Sitras 8DA12

IP65

IP65

IP3XD

IP3XD

600

600

Width panel

[mm]

Width switchgear end wall (not assigned in drawing)

[mm]

152

152

Height min.

[mm]

2,350

2,350

Depth

[mm]

865

1,245

[kg]

approx. 400

approx. 500

Weight (per panel)

Permissible ambient temperature (primary part)*

[C]

-5 to +55

-5 to +55

Maximum of 24-hour mean*

[C]

+35

+35

Relative humidity*

[%]

<85

<85

* other values on request

Technical data
Sitras 8DA11/12
Nominal voltage acc. to IEC 60850 / EN50163

[kV]

15

25

Rated insulation voltage acc. to EN50124-1

[kV]

17.5

27.5

Rated frequency

[Hz]

16.7

50 / 60

Rated short duration power-frequency

withstand voltage
to earth and across open contacts
across isolating distance

[kV]
[kV]

50
60

95
110

Rated lightning impulse withstand voltage

to earth and across open contacts
across isolating distance

[kV]
[kV]

125
145

200
220

Rated short-circuit breaking current

[kA]

31.5

31.5

Rated short-time withstand current, 3 s

[kA]

31.5

31.5

Rated short-circuit making current

[kA]

80

80

[A]
[A]

2,500
2,000

3,150
2,500

Rated normal current

busbar
feeder
Internal arc classification

IAC A FLR 31,5 kA; 1 s

IAC A FLR 40 kA; 0,5 s

LSC category / partition class

LSC 2B / PM

References
Since the market launch in 1996 more
than 2,600 panels of the switchgear
type Sitras 8DA11/8DA12 are successful in service in traction power supply
systems all over the world.
In total about 65,000 panels of the
switchgear type 8DA/ 8DB have been
manufactured till now.
Siemens AG 2016
All rights reserved
Sitras 8DA11
(Project: ARL Bangkok, T
hailand)

Sitras 8DA11/8DA12 / Product Information

No.A6Z08110326719 / Version 1.4.1
Siemens AG
Mobility Division
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
81739 Munich
Germany
For further information please contact:
Siemens AG
Mobility Division
Turnkey Projects & Electrification
Rail Electrification
Mozartstrae 33b
91052 Erlangen
Germany
electrification.mobility@siemens.com
www.siemens.com/rail-electrification

Sitras 8DA12 with special solutions

(Project: Oslogate, Norway)

Subject to changes and errors. The information given in

this document only contains general descriptions and/or
performance features which may not always specifically
reflect those described, or which may undergo modification
in the course of further development of the products. The
requested performance features are binding only when they
are expressly agreed upon in the concluded contract.