Cable reel contract
July 1st 2004

Kabelschlepp Metool has won two contracts totalling seven million dollars to supply high specification cable reels for the US Department of Energys waste treatment plant in Washington State.

A large portion of the 53 million gallons of highly radioactive and hazardous waste stored in underground tanks at the Hanford site will be vitrified into glass logs at the waste treatment plant.

The reels will be used for feeding 12 remotely controlled cranes built by PaR Systems of Minneapolis and Aceco of Philadelphia.

The reels for PaR have twin cables carrying power and a wide variety of functions, such as controls, cameras feed, variable speed/variable frequency motor drive, profibus and resolvers to the robotic arms. Aceco cranes have a single cable reel supplying power and control.

Reels are of a special through-wall design with the reels and cables on the radioactive side and liprings on the safe side. They are driven by Metools Vectorq electronic drive system to control torque and tension.

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