A Study on Characteristics of the Trapped Magnetic Field for HTS Bulk Superconducting Actuator Operated in AC

Author

Kim, S.B. ; Uwani, Y. ; Joo, J.H. ; Kawamoto, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Okayama Univ., Okayama, Japan

Volume

22

Issue

3

fYear

2012

fDate

6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

4700304

Lastpage

4700304

Abstract

The electric device applications of a high temperature superconducting (HTS) bulk magnet, having stable levitation and suspension properties according to their strong flux pinning force, have been proposed and developed. We have been investigating a three-dimensional (3-D) superconducting actuator using HTS bulks to develop a non-contact transportation device which moves freely in space. In our previous work, the unstable movement characteristics of HTS bulk were observed under DC operation, and the AC control system was proposed in order to solve these problems. In this paper, the horizontal movement and the field decay characteristics as a function of the gap length between electromagnet and HTS bulk and the frequency of driving current were investigated experimentally.

Keywords

actuators; electric current control; high-temperature superconductors; magnetic levitation; magnetic traps; superconducting magnets; suspensions; 3D superconducting actuator; AC control system; DC operation; HTS bulk superconducting actuator; driving current frequency; electric device applications; electromagnet bulk; field decay characteristics; flux pinning force; gap length; high temperature superconducting bulk magnet; noncontact transportation device; stable levitation; suspension properties; three-dimensional superconducting actuator; trapped magnetic field; unstable movement characteristics; Actuators; Coils; High temperature superconductors; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Superconducting magnets; Field decay; HTS bulk mover; superconducting actuator; trapped magnetic field;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2011.2181472

Filename

6112203