An Experimental and Numerical Study on the Inductance Variation of HTS Magnets

Author

Deng, X. ; Tang, Y. ; Zhang, Y. ; Ren, L. ; Liu, H. ; Gong, Y. ; Li, J.

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Electromagn. Eng. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

25

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Jun-15

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Inductance is an essential parameter of a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet. We have found that the inductance of HTS magnets would vary with temperatures and transport currents. The input and output properties of a magnet will change due to the variation of inductance. In this paper, an electromagnetic model has been built according to the characteristics of HTS tapes to analyze the inductance variation characteristic of HTS magnets. Four HTS coils have been made to verify this model. The result of coil and magnet experiments basically agrees with the simulation results. According to this study, the inductance variation in an HTS magnet can be attributed to the change of current density distribution in the magnet.

Keywords

current distribution; high-temperature superconductors; numerical analysis; superconducting coils; superconducting magnets; superconducting tapes; HTS coil; HTS magnet; current density distribution; electromagnetic model; high-temperature superconducting magnet; inductance variation characteristics; numerical study; Coils; Current density; High-temperature superconductors; Inductance; Numerical models; Superconducting magnetic energy storage; Temperature measurement; Double pancake; double pancake; high temperature superconducting magnets; high-temperature superconducting magnets; inductance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2014.2377794

Filename

6977921