Numerical evaluation of AC loss in high temperature superconducting coil

An approximated method to estimate the electro-magnetic AC loss in high temperature superconducting coil was proposed. We applied this method to estimate the AC loss characteristics of the high temperature superconducting coil made by stacking pancake coils which are wound by Bi2223/Ag tape. The analytical AC losses of the HTS coil were compared with the measured AC losses before and after impregnation by epoxy resin obtained in the previous work by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The analytically estimated electro-magnetic AC losses in the HTS coil were much smaller than the measured AC loss of the coil. The AC loss characteristics could not be explained by the method proposed in this paper. The main reason of this discrepancy was considered that the measured AC losses in the HTS coil contained large amount of the mechanical AC loss due to the AC vibration of the winding even if the HTS coil was impregnated.