BEST is working to fulfill its responsibilities towards nature with your help. One of these studies is about the losses of the transformer. These losses vary as each transformer is different, but BEST can provide solutions in any case. This losses means; more energy is wasted and more price is paid for these losses 

The connection between Turkey's electricity emissions factor and energy consumption is help us to reduce carbon footprint of transformers. Because when we multiply energy consumption of the transformer with the emission factor, we find CO2 emissions. The difference between high loss and low loss transformer could be seen in Picture 3, which additional carbon emission is more than 584 tonnes and spent energy is more than 1150kWh per year.

Difference of yearly energy and carbon-dioxide emission between high loss and low loss 100MVA transformers (*under normal loading conditions).

The low loss of the transformer does not only reduce the effect on the environment, at the same time, it reduce its temperature rises and increase system efficiency. This advantage will prolong the life of your product. The average amount of CO2 that our staff working in the production of transformers gives to the nature is 4 tons a year (0.456kg CO2 per hour). We take care this constant and manpower effort at calculation.

With low losses and calculating product labor hours, carbon production will be calculated and in order to reduce emissions, Best will plant trees equal to carbon emission.

In addition, a tree consumes (average) 6.5 tons of CO2 per year. Planting trees that equivalent CO2 release of transformer is reduces the carbon footprint of product. Transformers are already working with high efficiency i.e. low losses., planting trees for losses means that our transformers carbon footprint will be very low.

With Best Friend concept transformers; according to your loading conditions, optimum losses and low carbon emission product could be decided. You could ask for carbon report of product to our sales team. As per this concept, you could help us to plant more trees and fight with global warming and carbon emissions.

Most of the main materials that used in transformers could be recycled. As a result; a product with high efficiency with high recycle ratio is very environmentally friendly. Beside that; one of the most critical material that used in transformer is oil and the effect of oil to environment is could not be underestimated. If not managed well, standard petroleum based transformer oils could cause environmental crisis, but you can change that with vegetable- based oils.

With considering effect of transformer oil to environment; natural oils have no less advantage than standard oils as electrical and mechanical characteristics. Beside that; they could be easily biodegradable and have higher fire performance. As our customer, if you choose to go with vegetable-based oil; it will be manufactured with recycled material and this will result as low carbon emission [5]. Additionally; in case of a leakage in transformer, additional to oil pit solution, your oil’s 98% will be dissolved in nature, in less than 1 month time. Vegetable-based oil also have great fire performance, which acts as extinguisher. By choosing Best Transformer with natural oil, you will protect the environment, together with your equipment.

With increasing population and distributed energy systems; substations and transformers are getting closer to cities. This shows the importance of transformer effects to environment. For that reason, Best developed low noise transformers to protect human health.

There are more than one solution to reduce noise in Best Transformers. According to NEMA standards or even lover noise levels as per customer requirement, could be satisfied. Best manufactured “World’s most silent 100MVAr reactor” in 2017, which is as silent as a library. With reduced noise levels, environmental and human health will be protected.

As BEST A.Ş., we care about nature and we are working to provide a greener world for future generations. You can suppose our IBT files that made from recycled paper like a small example. However, we do not only help to protect the forests, but we also prevent water pollution as the amount of waste that is generated decreases accordingly. Because 17 tons of wood, 26 tons of water and 2 barrels of oil are being saved in the production of one ton of recycled paper. Our İBT files consist 1200 pages (average) and its weight is 6. This saves 42 gallons of water and 1.92 liters of oil. In addition, the use of recycled paper in recycling can reduce air pollution by 74%, water pollution by 35% and water use by 45%. For this reason, BEST A.Ş. pay great attention to these small steps. If you want, we can also provide you with the most environmentally friendly method, just digitally sending iBT.

Fans and pumps that cause high energy consumption in transformers; new generation, nature friendly, are cared to be more efficient. In this way more energy is saved and less carbon emission is created. When compared with fans that AC motors according to ErP 2015 standards, Green-Tech EC motors provide efficiency in excess up to 90%. In the pumps, which are planned to be used, design and easy installation has a big importance too. Besides, considering the lifetime cost; leakproof design, low noise and low vibration levels are obtained.

Transformer is an electromagnetic energy converter device and magnetic field is used effectively in it. With that way; efficiency values rise more than 99%. Even with this high of efficiency, stray losses inside the transformer could create additional loss and heat on tank walls. Tank shunts are the best way to solve that problem, not just the stray losses; ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) values could be reduced with optimum shunt design too. This will result as protecting the all living creatures near the transformers.

To protect the environment and creatures, extra effort is performed during design. Magnetic field analysis are made with precision. This will lead to optimum shield placement and optimum material usage. Distance between, height and depth of shields are calculated with consideration of material and production limitations. At last; with BEST experience, best and most environment friendly solution is provided to customers.

While paints are drying, they spread a vapor which includes carbon, as named VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). Addition of the harm of these substances to the nature, they are also dangerous for human health. While typical solvent based paint can contain 30-50 percent VOCs, in ECO-Best program; average 50kg less VOC paint is used for a 100 MVA transformer.

As company, we want to follow the carbon effect of transformers from material supply to transformer transport. The most critical point in determining the transport method is that we cannot always choose the method that we want. In scenarios where the route is diverse, we can offer you the greenest method in the most optimal way. In addition, "Best Friend" can give you information of your product’s carbon emission and we can plant trees to compensate for the emission to minimize environmental impact.

With all these options, Best would be more than happy to increase your positive effect to environment. During your enquiry, please mention that you request “Best Friend” transformer and select the options you want, our team will prepare your special design. Beside above topics, vacuum interrupter tap changers could be preferred, which increase maintenance period and reduce your total cost. Beside that, vacuum interrupters have less carbon emission values.