Inductance and current distribution analysis of a prototype HTS cable

Zhu, Jiahui and Zhang, Zhenyu and Zhang, Huiming and Zhang, Min and Qiu, Ming and Yuan, Weijia (2014) Inductance and current distribution analysis of a prototype HTS cable. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 507 (Part 2). 022047. ISSN 1742-6588 (https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/507/2/022047)

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Abstract

This project is partly supported by NSFC Grant 51207146, RAEng Research Exchange scheme of UK and EPSRC EP/K01496X/1. Superconducting cable is an emerging technology for electricity power transmission. Since the high power capacity HTS transmission cables are manufactured using a multi-layer conductor structure, the current distribution among the multilayer structure would be nonuniform without proper optimization and hence lead to large transmission losses. Therefore a novel optimization method has been developed to achieve evenly distributed current among different layers considering the HTS cable structure parameters: radius, pitch angle and winding direction which determine the self and mutual inductance. A prototype HTS cable has been built using BSCCO tape and tested to validate the design the optimal design method. A superconductor characterization system has been developed using the Labview and NI data acquisition system. It can be used to measure the AC loss and current distribution of short HTS cables.

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Zhu, Jiahui, Zhang, Zhenyu, Zhang, Huiming, Zhang, Min ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4296-7730, Qiu, Ming and Yuan, Weijia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7953-4704;
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