HIGH MAGNET CRGO SILICON STEEL

Types of CRGO - Cold Rolled Grain Oriented Electrical Steel

Grain oriented electrical steel is an important material in the production of energy efficient transformers and large, high performance generators. In the form of laminated, wound or punched sheets, it is the essential core material of distribution transformers, power transformers and small transformers

Grain-oriented electrical steel usually has a silicon level of 3% of the crystal orientation relative to the sheet. It is used for the cores of power and distribution transformers, cold-rolled grain-oriented steel is often abbreviated to CRGO.

Core laminations are the main part of an electrical transformer, and this attribute to 70% of a transformer cost. These core laminations are required to be cut from special steel called as Cold Rolled Grain Oriented Electrical Steel or popularly known as CRGO. The CRGO is a special quality of steel which have a special grain surface and comes in a thickness of 0.23 mm, 0.27 mm, 0.30 mm, 0.35 mm. (generally called M3, M4, M5 & M6). Lower the thickness of material better is the quality of material.

The Quality of CRGO is measured in terms of lower losses of electrical current, which flow in the core. The proper design of core and good quality of core material do a best job in combination. Mainly the core losses are measured in Watts per Kg.