Design and Manufacturing of a SMES Model Coil for Real Time Digital Simulator Based Power Quality Enhancement Simulation

The Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) system is a key technology for overcoming the voltage sag, swell, interruption, and frequency fluctuation with the fast response speed of current charge and discharge. A toroidal-type SMES is designed using a 3D CAD program, and the inductance and AC loss characteristic during operation are analysed using Finite Element Method (FEM) program. The toroidal-type magnet consists of 30 double pancake coils (DPC). The single pancake coils (SPC), constituting the double pancake coils, are arranged at an angle of 6?? from each other, based on the central axis of the toroidal-type magnet. The conduction cooling method is used for the toroidal-type SMES cooling. To evaluate the characteristics of the over-mega-joule class grid-connected HTS SMES system, the authors implemented a simulation by which the SMES coil could be connected to the Real Time Digital Simulator (RTDS). Using the simulation, users can perform voltage sag and frequency stabilization simulations with a real SMES coil in real time and easily change the capacity of the SMES system as much as they need. The effectiveness of the toroidal-type HTS SMES system is demonstrated through the RTDS-based simulation and the results are briefly discussed.