The Rugged and Reliable Drive

for the Highest Power Ratings

SINAMICS GL150 Medium-Voltage Drive

SINAMICS drives
Answers for industry.
 SINAMICS – the optimum drive for each
and every application
The drive family for drive solutions that are fit for the future

Low voltage Medium voltage

For basic For applications with high
applications For demanding applications For sophisticated applications power ratings

SINAMICS SINAMICS SINAMICS SINAMICS SINAMICS SINAMICS SINAMICS

G110 G120 G120D G130/G150 S120 S150 GM150/SM150/GL150

V/f control V/f control/vector control V/f control/vector control/servo control V/f control/vector control

0.12–3 kW 0.37–90 kW 0.75–7.5 kW 75–1,500 kW 0.12–4,500 kW 75–1,200 kW 0.8–120 MW

Pumps, fans, Pumps, fans, conveyor belts, Production machines – e.g. packaging, textile and Test stands, Pumps, fans, compressors,
conveyor belts compressors, mixers, crushers, extruders printing machines, paper machines, plastics machines, crosscutters, mixers, extruders, crushers,
machine tools, plants and process lines centrifuges rolling mills, mine hoists

Standard engineering tools

SIZER – for simple planning and engineering STARTER – for fast commissioning, optimization and diagnostics

The SINAMICS family offers the SINAMICS –

can tackle any drive application
optimum drive for each and every
• Wide range of power ratings from
drive application – and all of the drives 0.12 kW to 120 MW

can be engineered, parameterized, • Available in low-voltage and medium-

voltage versions
commissioned and operated in a
• Standard functionality using a common
standard fashion. hardware and software platform

• Standard engineering using just two

tools for all drives: SIZER for engineer-
ing and STARTER for parameterization
and commissioning

• High degree of flexibility and

combinability

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 Medium-voltage drives from Siemens:
The reliable and complete range

Medium-voltage drive ROBICON SINAMICS GM150 SINAMICS GM150 SINAMICS SM150 SINAMICS GL150
converter series Perfect Harmony (IGBT) (IGCT)

Power range 150 kW–120 MW 800 kW–9 MW 10 MW–27 MW 5 MW–30MW 6 MW–120 MW

General-purpose General-purpose General-purpose Sophisticated General-purpose

Application range
applications applications applications applications applications
Induction and Induction and Induction and Induction and
Motors Synchronous motors
synchronous motors synchronous motors synchronous motors synchronous motors

Energy recovery – – – Yes (Active Infeed) Yes (LCI)

Multi-motor drives – – – Yes –

Semiconductor LV-IGBT
HV-IGBT IGCT IGCT Thyristor (LCI)
technology (cell topology)

Typical applications Pumps, fans, com- Pumps, fans, compressors, extruders, kneaders, Rolling mills, mine Compressors, fans,
pressors, extruders, mixers, crushers, agitators, conveyor systems, hoists, conveyor pumps, extruders,
kneaders, mixers, marine drives, presses, wire rod mills systems, test stands ships’ drives, starting
crushers, agitators, converters for blast
conveyor systems, furnaces
presses, ESP, retrofit

The benchmark when it comes to from Siemens since decades – and that Well-proven as basis
medium-voltage drive systems worldwide. The reason for this lies in the
reliability of our drive systems that has Based on well-proven technological
Siemens is the undisputed No. 1 in become almost legendary. And all of this concepts, we are continually developing
medium-voltage drives and around the didn’t just happen by chance – it is the our medium-voltage drives.
globe sets the benchmark in this sector – result of our many years of experience, The result: Increasingly higher reliability
and not only involving power ratings and our power of innovation and our exten- and operational reliability and safety,
market share. Our portfolio is also second sive know-how. continually more compact types of
to none around the globe: construction, continually lower energy
• All voltage classes from 2.3 to 13.8 kV • From 1969: Variable-speed medium- requirement and service and mainte-
• A seamless range of power ratings from voltage drive systems with current- nance costs as well as increasingly sim-
150 kW to 120 MW source DC link converters pler handling: from engineering through
• All levels of dynamic response and • 1994: The cell topology of ROBICON installation, integration and commission-
performance Perfect Harmony revolutionized ing up to operator control.
• Single-motor drives and multi-motor medium-voltage drives
systems • 1996: “Pioneered” the use of high- Always the optimum solution
• Harmonized and coordinated systems rating voltage-source DC link converters
with synchronous and induction motors in rolling mills We offer you the optimum solution for
• Motor speeds from 10 to 15,000 rpm in • 1998: “Pioneered” the use of high- any conceivable drive application in the
the Megawatt range voltage IGBTs for medium-voltage drive medium-voltage range. We have the wid-
converters est range of drive converter technology
The decisive plus when it comes to • 2003: Worldwide the highest rating that we can draw on: From load-commu-
experience high-speed drives (65 MW) with LCI for tated drive converters using thyristors
compressors of a gas liquification plant through voltage-source DC link converters
Everywhere where it involves the high- • 2005: Highest rating drive with voltage- with HV-IGBTs or IGCTs up to cell topology
est degree of availability, an uncountable source DC link converters in a cell-type drive converters. For the latter, medium
number of users have been depending topology (65/45 MW) used in an LNG voltage is generated at the output by
on medium-voltage drive converters plant (LNG = Liquefied Natural Gas) connecting low-voltage cells in series.
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 SINAMICS GL150 –
LCI drives for large synchronous motors

Robust technology at a reasonable Maximum efficiency: SINAMICS GL150 at a glance

price Up to 50 % lower energy requirement
• Air-cooled up to 19.4 MW
The SINAMICS GL150 drive is the cost- For pumps, fans and compressors with • Liquid-cooled up to over 100 MW
effective solution for large synchronous square-law load characteristic, the • For synchronous motors
motors using LCI (Load Commutated SINAMICS GL150 fully utilizes an impor- • Compact design and high power
Inverter) technology. There is no upper tant feature of variable-speed drive tech- density
limit for the power rating – and the nology – the energy efficiency: It reduces • Can be simply integrated into plants
technology is extremely rugged and the energy consumption by up to 50 %. • Simple operator control and monitoring
reliable. By using thyristors, the number • Extremely reliable
of components has been reduced to an Applications for large synchronous • Almost maintenance-free
absolute minimum. Its simple and motors • Can be seamlessly integrated into
straightforward design makes the higher-level automation systems
SINAMICS GL150 extremely reliable in SINAMICS GL150 is designed to feed large
operation, requires almost no mainte- synchronous motors – up to 100 MW and
nance and is compact. SINAMICS GL150 above. The speed range extends up to
is designed for single-motor drives for 6,300 rpm for a speed control range of
applications with either square-law or between 1:10 and 1:100. Variable-speed
constant load characteristics, as starting pumps, fans, blowers, compressors,
converter for soft starting or as continu- extruders and kneaders are some of
ous duty drive converter for variable- the main applications for these types
speed processes. Its circuitry means that of drives. In the double-digit megawatt
it is suitable for 4-quadrant operation power range, synchronous motors are
without any additional costs – i.e. it can especially found in the areas of oil and
be used for driving and braking in both gas, petrochemical and chemical, water
directions of rotation. and power generation. These large
synchronous motors are also used for
large main ships’ drives.
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 SINAMICS GL150 –
reliability and efficiency
at the highest level

Liquid-cooled version of the SINAMICS GL150 Air-cooled version of the

power unit SINAMICS GL150 power unit

Perfect for high-speed synchronous Three decades of reliability – The series thyristor circuits for the high-
motors with the highest ratings LCI drives est power ratings can be optionally
configured corresponding to an n+1
SINAMICS GL150 is admirably suited for The simple and rugged concept of LCIs redundant design. This further increases
directly driven high-speed compressors from Siemens has been ensuring maxi- the availability. One of the advantages
and pumps. SIMOVERT S from Siemens mum availability with a high degree of of the patented arrangement of the DC
– the predecessor of the SINAMICS cost-effectiveness for three decades now. link reactors is the insensitivity to a single
GL150 – controls the speed of the The combination of extremely rugged ground fault. The power unit as well as
highest-rating high-speed compressor thyristor technology in a fuseless design, the closed-loop control can be redun-
drive ever built. Frequently, SINAMICS combined with an intelligent response to dantly configured as option to achieve
GL150 is used as starting converter to external disturbances, makes these drive the highest availability.
softly start large synchronous motors – units extremely reliable requiring little
for instance, for blast furnace blowers. maintenance. The LCI concept is based on Fuseless operation
In this case, a SINAMICS GL150 brings a combination of synchronous motor and
the multi-megawatt motors up to the simple thyristor bridges on the line and Fuses can be completely eliminated in
line synchronous speed and then trans- motor sides. The two thyristor bridges are the power electronics. This is because the
fers them over to the line supply. force-commutated and no forced commu- thyristors are dimensioned to ensure that
tation circuitry is required. This makes the they can handle overcurrent situations
power electronics extremely simple and and the inherent system design that from
rugged. We have continued to further the basic philosophy takes into account
develop this concept. Higher motor the line supply and motor in the same
voltages can be achieved by using a way. Overcurrents are detected both on
high number of thyristors – with a high the line supply and motor side and
blocking capability – in a series circuit. limited by the transformer on the line
side.

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 2.3…36 kV 3~50 / 60 Hz 2.3…36 kV 3~50 / 60 Hz

Thyristor module
Design of the SINAMICS GL150 power units in a six- and twelve-pulse circuit configuration

No stress on the motor and line supply Even more compact High efficiency

The motor voltage is generated from a By reducing the number of components, The LCI concept also increases the
separately excited synchronous motor over the years, the drive units have efficiency in other important areas: The
– and not by the drive. This principle become increasingly more compact. drive efficiency is extremely high (99 %)
means that there are no voltage State-of-the-art thyristors with an 8 kV as a result of the low switching losses
gradients (dv/dt) that stress the motor. blocking voltage and with disk diameters and the low-loss thyristor technology.
The motor insulation only has to be of up to 5 inches are used, which results in This in turn reduces the demands placed
designed for the supply voltage – and an extremely compact SINAMICS GL150 on the cooling system and also the space
increased insulation is not required as design. This is complemented by the required for the installation.
protective measure against steep volt- modular drive converter concept. The
age edges and peaks. On the motor patented LCI design, where the DC link
side, the SINAMICS GL150 is available in reactors of the two separate DC links are
a 12-pulse configuration to reduce the negatively coupled, is extremely compact
harmonics – and on the line side in a and space saving. This circuit configura-
24-pulse configuration. This allows even tion means that significantly smaller DC
the most stringent specifications regard- link reactors can be used: In fact, the
ing the line quality to be fulfilled. Based reactors only have to have a rating of
on our many years of experience, we 60 % of those required for conventional
have been able to leverage the ongoing circuits. Negatively coupled reactors are
development in semiconductor tech- 40 % smaller than non-coupled devices.
nology to further reduce the number The DC link reactors themselves have an
of components. The result: maximum extremely compact design and their
availability values and on top of all this, enclosed iron core prevents the forma-
the SINAMICS GL150 is almost mainte- tion of leakage fields.
nance-free!

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 Technology based on the latest drive
generation

Three decades – but always representing

state-of-the-art technology: SINAMICS
GL150 is the latest generation of our LCI
drives and is an ultramodern drive unit
from the Siemens SINAMICS family of
drives: Fully digital, including transvector
control, state-of-the-art software tools for
commissioning and PROFIBUS interface.
The latter allows these drive units
to be seamlessly integrated into Totally
Integrated Automation – the higher-level
automation environment of Siemens –
as well as additional analog and digital
interfaces. The thyristor modules are
optoelectronically gated and the
thyristors are individually monitored.

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 SINAMICS GL150 medium-voltage drives:
Leading-edge technology that is easy to handle

drive family. One example is the simple

Line voltage sensing
operator control and visualization at the
Circuit-breaker user-friendly SINAMICS AOP30 cabinet
Drive transformer
unit operator panel. Information and data
Starting in the navigation menu is displayed as
converter
Line-side control plain text on the graphics display. The
thyristor converter operator always has the operating data in
his field of view and can make changes,
DC link with reactors perform diagnostics and output status
Motor-side
messages at any time.
Synchronizing
thyristor converter control

SINAMICS GL150 as starting converter –

Motor-side for soft and reliable starting
transformer

Bypass circuit-breaker When used as starting converter,

SINAMICS GL150 can bring a maximum
High-voltage
Block diagram of a of four multi-Megawatt motors up to the
synchronous motor
starting converter –
synchronous line supply frequency and
in this case for two
then transfer them over to the line
Excitation equipment synchronous motors
supply. The transfer is bumpless – which
reduces the stress on the line supply and
the complete mechanical transmission
line. The consequence – less wear and a
Medium-voltage drives – containers. This reduces construction and longer equipment lifetime. Using
the simple way installation costs. But this isn’t all, the SINAMICS GL150, even blast furnace
drive system arrives on site already test- blowers with power ratings above 50 MW
Not only is the technological concept of ed. This significantly reduces project and can be started from standstill and trans-
the SINAMICS GL150 simple and rugged. commissioning times. ferred over to the line supply within one
Installation, integration into the plant to two minutes. With this starting tech-
and operator control are also simple and Commissioning made easy nique, the rotor is not thermally stressed
straightforward. All of the closed-loop as the motor is already operated in syn-
control functions, the power supply, the STARTER is the standard commissioning chronism with the supply voltage starting
signal adaptation elements and the ter- tool for all drives belonging to the from zero speed. This is quite a different
minals for external signals are accommo- SINAMICS family. Without requiring any situation than when using either a reac-
dated in a system cabinet – thus special system know-how, the commis- tor or auto-transformer start. The rate of
eliminating several integration steps. sioning engineer can configure even the successful starts lies above 99 % and is
most complex systems in a short time therefore significantly higher than when
Simple integration into the plant thanks to the simple, menu-prompted using conventional starting techniques.
operator interface. Functions can be This represents a decisive step in achiev-
Integration into the plant is simplified as checked and parameters optimized using ing higher availability and good cost-
a result of the low envelope dimensions integrated test routines. Trace functions effectiveness of blast furnace systems.
of the unit – referred to any power rating graphically show signal characteristics This is because an interrupted start,
– and its high degree of flexibility when it therefore simplifying drive optimization under worse case conditions, can mean
comes to the configuration. Further, all and diagnostics. that the furnace cools down charged with
of the open-loop control and power elec- ore and is therefore unusable for up to
tronics, the excitation supply, the incom- Operator control: “Easy to use” with 10 days.
ing switchgear and all of the auxiliaries the maximum amount of information
can be installed in special prefabricated
Just like all of the SINAMICS drive units,
the SINAMICS GL150 also benefits from
the standard operator concept of this
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 Synchronous motors and drives from Siemens
Best prerequisites for maximum security against failure

65-MW compressor motor running at 3,600 rpm Soon to be winging its way to site: A 24-MW One of the two 21-MW motors for the main drive
for the first completely electric gas liquefaction motor for the West-to-East Pipeline in China of a cruise ship
system in the world in Hammerfest/Norway

Unbeatable range of drive products

Siemens synchronous motors
at a glance Siemens is globally the No. 1 for medium-
voltage drives. The range of units covers
Power
5–100 MW and more all conceivable medium-voltage applica-
ratings
tions in industry and the infrastructure –
Voltages 6–13.2 kV in all performance levels as well as in all
voltage classes and power ratings. This
Shaft
710–1,250 mm also applies to our LCI drives for large
heights
synchronous motors.
Speed up to 6,300 rpm
Confidence-building experience
No. of poles 2–8
For many decades now, Siemens has
Degree of
IP55 been one of the leading suppliers of LCI
protection
drives that have ratings extending up into
Explosion
Ex p the high double-digit megawatt range.
protection
They have been running for years – in
Cooling Air-to-water heat exchanger some instances for decades – around
the world, driving compressors, pumps,
Sleeve bearings,
Bearings blowers, extruders, kneaders and
active magnetic bearings
crushers with some of the highest power
ratings. All of these applications require
little maintenance and are energy-saving.

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35-MW motor running at 5,040 rpm for a 23-MW motor running at 6,300 rpm to pump gas 42-MW motor for the blast furnace blower in the
compressor station of a gas pipeline from Great south of Groningen/The Netherlands Anshan steelworks, China
Britain to Belgium

Unified drive platform the basis for maximum reliability. Motors with integrated safety
The enclosure, bearings, active parts,
The load-commutated SINAMICS GL150 ventilation and cooling system are per- Siemens synchronous motors are
drive is based on the SINAMICS drive fectly harmonized with one another. equipped as standard with bearing and
platform. As a consequence, the GL150 The materials, components and produc- winding monitoring devices to cope with
also profits from the advantages of this tion techniques used have been carefully even the most extreme situations.
unified family of drives. This technology selected with this objective in mind. It goes without saying that all of the
is used across all power ratings and synchronous motors are available in
performance levels and not only reduces The Micalastic insulating system is used explosion-protected versions: With
the costs for training and stocking spare for all our high-rating high-voltage mo- pressurized enclosure Ex p for gas explo-
parts. All of this is complemented by the tors. This has proven itself over many sion protection, Zone 1. Here, pure air,
SINAMICS engineering, commissioning years in operation around the globe. free of any other gases, is maintained at
and diagnostic tools. An important component is the VPI tech- a pressure inside the motor to prevent
nique (Vacuum Pressure Impregnation) the ingress of explosive gases. For high-
The system partner on the motor side – that is harmonized with the insulation speed synchronous motors as an alter-
more than just reliable design. This insulation technique allows native, we offer oil-lubricated sleeve
the motor to be connected directly to the bearings or active magnetic bearings.
Together with SINAMICS GL150, Siemens line supply and to a drive converter. When using magnetic bearings, an
synchronous motors form a perfectly The insulation has a high switching and extremely wide speed control range can
coordinated system: Whether for high- reversing strength as a result of the high be implemented – for instance,
speed compressors with the highest winding overhang stiffness and excellent 600–6,300 rpm at 23 MW when fed from
power rating for transporting or corona shielding. All of this together with a SINAMICS GL150.
liquefying gas, for large extruders and the extremely high mechanical strength
water pumps or for main ships’ drives, and thermal endurance ensure an ex-
these rugged synchronous motors with tremely long winding lifetime. The bear-
ratings extending beyond 100 MW are ings also have extremely long lifetimes
and require hardly any maintenance.

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 SINAMICS GL150 – technical data

Specifications
Power connection Closed-loop control
• Line supply voltage • Vector control with and without speed encoder
Air cooling: up to 5.2 kV +/– 10 % • Separately excited synchronous motors can be connected
Water cooling: up to 12 kV +/– 10 % (excitation equipment is available separately)
Frequency: 50/60 Hz +/– 3 % • Operation as starting converter
• Line supply power factor: approx. 0.85 at rated speed and load • Operation as continuous duty drive
• Either from the top or bottom • Speed accuracy: +/– 0.01 % with speed encoder,
Motor connection +/– 1 % without speed encoder
• Motor voltage • Torque accuracy: +/– 3 %
Air cooling: up to 4.8 kV • Field-weakening operation
Water cooling: up to 11 kV Starting converter: 1:8
• Either from the top or bottom Continuous duty drive: 1:1.15
Auxiliary power supply • Maximum output frequency: 125 Hz
• 1-ph. 230 V AC 50/60 Hz and 3-ph. 400 V AC 50/60 Hz
Standards
Line-side rectifier
• IEC, EN, CE
• LCI (Load Commutated Inverter), thyristor rectifier in a B6C-circuit,
6-pulse, 12-pulse or 24-pulse, regenerative feedback into the line supply Standard features
Motor-side inverter
• Flying restart
• LCI (Load Commutated Inverter), thyristor inverter in a B6C-circuit,
• Automatic restart
6-pulse or 12-pulse
• Operating hours counter for fans and circuit-breaker
Efficiency
• Maintenance functions
• > 99,0 % at rated speed and load
• STARTER software for user-friendly commissioning and diagnostics at
Cooling
the PC
• Air cooling with top-mounted cabinet fan
• Water cooling using heat exchanger with redundant pumps as standard Control I/O
Degrees of protection • Analog inputs: 2/4
• Air cooling: IP20 • Analog outputs: 0/4
• Water cooling: IP41 • Digital inputs: 6/6
Ambient conditions • Digital outputs: 4/16
• Temperature: Others through optional expansion modules
+5–40 °C (41–104 °F), up to 45 °C (113 °F) with reduced power • Speed encoder
• Installation altitude: • Communications: PROFIBUS-DP or PROFINET
up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft), up to 4,000 m (13,200 ft) with derating
• Humidity: < 85 % (condensation not permissible) Selection of additional options
Safety functions (this is only a selection of those available) • Increased degree of protection
• Short-circuit and ground fault monitoring • Suitable for marine duty
• Overcurrent, overvoltage and undervoltage monitoring • Teleservice module
• Line supply voltage failure monitoring • Anti-condensation heating
• Overtemperature monitoring (drive converter and motor) • Additional I/O modules
• Overspeed protection, anti-stall protection (motor) • Additional PT100 temperature relay
• Cooling circuit monitoring • Output transformer (starting converter)
• Self-diagnostics of the control and power unit • Bypass control for up to 4 motors (starting converter)
• Demagnetizing equipment for the output transformer
(starting converter)
• Redundant configurations
• Grounding breaker at the input and output
• Circuit-breaker at the converter output
• Various versions of the heat exchanger

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 GL150 air-cooled
Rated output Output voltage Shaft output1 No. of No. of Order No. Configuration
current pulses, pulses, (MLFB)
line side motor side
A V kW hp
1,700 2,600 6,200 8,300 6/122 6 6SL3850-3UN1[]-[][]A0 A
1,500 4,600 9,700 13,000 6/122 6 6SL3850-3UP2[]-[][]A0 B
2 x 1,700 2 x 2,600 12,400 1,660 12/242 12 6SL3850-5UN2[]-[][]A0 B
2 x 1,500 2 x 4,600 19,400 26,000 12/242 12 6SL3850-5UP3[]-[][]A0 C

GL150 liquid-cooled
Rated output Output voltage Shaft output1 No. of No. of Order No. Configuration
current pulses, pulses, (MLFB)
line side motor side
A V kW hp
2 x 2,400 2 x 2,400 16,000 21,500 12/242 12 6SL3855-5UM4[]-[][][]0 D
2 x 2,350 2 x 4,800 32,000 42,900 12/242 12 6SL3855-5UP5[]-[][][]0 E
2 x 2,350 2 x 7,200 48,000 64,400 12 12 6SL3855-5US6[]-[][][]0 F
2 x 2,350 2 x 9,600 64,000 85,800 12/242 12 6SL3855-5UU7[]-[][][]0 G
2 x 2,350 2 x 11,000 74,000 99,200 12 12 6SL3855-5UW7[]-[][][]0 H

Dimensions (power unit)

Configuration Width Height Depth Weight
mm inch mm inch mm inch kg
A 2,400 94.5 2,670 105.2 1,290 50.8 3,300
B 3,600 141.8 2,670 105.2 1,290 50.8 4,600

C 6,000 236.3 2,670 105.2 1,290 50.8 6,700

D 4,000 157.5 2,680 105.6 1,700 67 5,400
E 5,500 216.6 2,680 105.6 1,700 67 7,000
F 7,000 275.6 2,680 105.6 1,700 67 12,000
G 9,000 354.4 2,680 105.6 1,700 67 16,000

Dimensions (drive cabinet)

Width Height Depth Weight
mm inch mm inch mm inch kg
1200 47.3 2385 93.9 635 25 300

1
Values are referred to the data of typical synchronous motor
2
Please inquire, modified frame size

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