SMES compensator with a toroidal magnet system

Author

Juengst, Klaus-Peter ; Gehring, Rainer ; Kudymow, Andrej ; Pfisterer, Hans-Juergen ; Suess, Edmund

Author_Institution

Inst. for Tech. Phys., Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

754

Lastpage

757

Abstract

Disturbances generated in the power system by the feedback of fluctuating loads can be reduced by application of a fast reacting SMES based power compensator. A demonstrator using a NbTi solenoid had been developed and tested in the field at an earlier time. This paper reports on the second step, which is the replacement of the solenoid by a ten coil toroid with low fringing magnetic field. The paper concentrates on Europe´s first toroidal SMES in operation. Its design, construction, and test are described. A maximum of 420 kJ energy was stored, when the magnet system reached the short sample current value after one training step.

Keywords

compensation; magnetic fields; niobium alloys; superconducting magnet energy storage; titanium alloys; 420 kJ; NbTi; NbTi solenoid; SMES compensator; fluctuating loads feedback; low fringing magnetic field; superconducting magnet; ten coil toroid; toroidal SMES; toroidal magnet; torus; Feedback; Niobium compounds; Power generation; Power systems; Samarium; Solenoids; Superconducting magnetic energy storage; Testing; Titanium compounds; Toroidal magnetic fields;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2002.1018511

Filename

1018511