Inductive Fault Current Limiters: Kinetics of Quenching and Recovery

Author

Usoskin, Alexander ; Mumford, Frank ; Dietrich, Reinhard ; Handaze, Abdeljabbar ; Prause, Burkhard ; Rutt, Alexander ; Schlenga, Klaus

Author_Institution

Eur. High Temp. Supercond. GmbH & Co. KG, Alzenau, Germany

Volume

19

Issue

3

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1859

Lastpage

1862

Abstract

We report experimental results from a shielded inductive type superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) demonstrator incorporating YBCO coated conductor together with results from an analytic study of a large 13 MVA SFCL. Important parameters such as the superconductor temperature rise, re-cooling time and voltage characteristics following a short-circuit quench are discussed. These results are compared with the measured and predictive performance of a resistive type SFCL incorporating a similar volume of YBCO CC and providing the same level of current limiting.

Keywords

barium compounds; fault current limiters; high-temperature superconductors; quenching (thermal); superconducting tapes; yttrium compounds; SFCL; YBCO coated conductor; YBa₂Cu₃O_7-delta; apparent power 13 MVA; high-temperature superconductor; short-circuit quenching; superconducting fault current limiter; superconducting tape; Fault current limiter; high-temperature superconductors; superconducting epitaxial layers; superconducting films; superconducting tapes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2009.2017705

Filename

5109521