TY - JOUR
T1 - Over-current characteristics of 275-kV class YBCO power cable
AU - Ishiyama, Atsushi
AU - Wang, Xudong
AU - Ueda, Hiroshi
AU - Uryu, Toshikuni
AU - Yagi, Masashi
AU - Fujiwara, Noboru
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 03, 2010; accepted September 29, 2010. Date of publication November 11, 2010; date of current version May 27, 2011. This work was supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as the Project for Development of Materials and Power Application of Coated Conductors, M-PACC.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - In Japan, a project for the development of a 275-kV class YBCO power cable started in 2008. High-temperature superconducting (HTS) power cables typically consist of a copper former, an HTS conductor layer, an electrical insulation layer, an HTS shield layer, and a copper shield layer. In practical applications, the 275-kV class transmission line may be subjected to short-circuit fault currents such as 63 kArms for a duration of 0.6 s. Therefore, in order to ensure the stability and demonstrate the feasibility of the cable, it is important to estimate the current distribution and temperature increase under the fault condition. We designed the copper former, copper shield layer, and copper plating of the YBCO coated conductor carefully so as to fulfill the requirements of practical applications. In this study, we carried out over-current experiments on a 2-m long YBCO model cable and performed numerical simulations by a computer program developed using the finite element method (FEM) and an electric circuit model. We investigated the electromagnetic and thermal behaviors of the cable under fault conditions from the experimental and simulation results.
AB - In Japan, a project for the development of a 275-kV class YBCO power cable started in 2008. High-temperature superconducting (HTS) power cables typically consist of a copper former, an HTS conductor layer, an electrical insulation layer, an HTS shield layer, and a copper shield layer. In practical applications, the 275-kV class transmission line may be subjected to short-circuit fault currents such as 63 kArms for a duration of 0.6 s. Therefore, in order to ensure the stability and demonstrate the feasibility of the cable, it is important to estimate the current distribution and temperature increase under the fault condition. We designed the copper former, copper shield layer, and copper plating of the YBCO coated conductor carefully so as to fulfill the requirements of practical applications. In this study, we carried out over-current experiments on a 2-m long YBCO model cable and performed numerical simulations by a computer program developed using the finite element method (FEM) and an electric circuit model. We investigated the electromagnetic and thermal behaviors of the cable under fault conditions from the experimental and simulation results.
KW - FEM
KW - Fault current
KW - HTS power cable
KW - YBCO-coated conductor
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2010.2085413
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2010.2085413
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79957924498
SN - 1051-8223
VL - 21
SP - 1017
EP - 1020
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
IS - 3 PART 2
M1 - 5629382
ER -