Thermal and mechanical properties of EPR and XLPE cable compounds

This paper shows that the mechanical and thermal properties of EPR cable dielectrics are very stable with temperature. Commercially available EPR and TRXLPE cable dielectrics typically have about the same thermal conductivity, although the thermal conductivity of TRXLPE above the melting point of the crystallites drops below that of the EPR dielectrics. The mechanical properties of EPR cable dielectrics are much more stable with temperature than those of the TRXLPE, as EPR polymer is essentially amorphous so that EPR cable dielectrics do not suffer from the very large thermal expansion of TRXLPE as its crystallites melt.