Design and Test of a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) Coil

Author

Yuan, Weijia ; Xian, W. ; Ainslie, M. ; Hong, Z. ; Yan, Y. ; Pei, R. ; Jiang, Y. ; Coombs, T.A.

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Div., Centre for Adv. Photonics & Electron. (CAPE), Cambridge, UK

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1379

Lastpage

1382

Abstract

This paper presents an SMES coil which has been designed and tested by University of Cambridge. The design gives the maximum stored energy in the coil which has been wound by a certain length of second-generation high-temperature superconductors (2G HTS). A numerical model has been developed to analyse the current density and magnetic field distribution and calculate the AC losses during the charge and discharge process of the coil. A cryostat has been designed and a test of the I-V curve measurement of the coil has been accomplished. In addition, the power electronics control of the SMES coil has been simulated.

Keywords

current density; semiconductors; superconducting coils; superconducting magnet energy storage; AC losses; Cambridge University; I-V curve measurement; current density; high-temperature superconductors; magnetic field distribution; superconducting magnetic energy storage coil; Numerical model; SMES; pancake coils; superconductors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2010.2041201

Filename

5433233