Title :
Transient Simulation and Analysis for Saturated Core High Temperature Superconducting Fault Current Limiter
Author :
Zhao, Cuixia ; Wang, Shuhong ; Qiu, Jie ; Zhu, Jian Guo ; Guo, Youguang ; Gong, Weizhi ; Cao, Zhengjian
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Xi´´an Jiaotong Univ.
Abstract :
In this paper, the transient performance of a magnetic core fault current limiter (FCL) saturated by high temperature superconducting (HTS) DC bias winding is investigated by using 3-dimensional (3D) field-circuit coupled simulation. A high voltage is induced on the DC HTS winding during the fault current state. The induced voltage is computed and some possible methods to reduce it are studied. The numerical computations are verified by the experiment results on an FCL prototype
Keywords :
coupled circuits; fault current limiters; high-temperature superconductors; magnetic cores; transient analysis; 3D field-circuit coupled simulation; DC bias winding; HTS winding; high temperature superconducting fault current limiter; saturation cores; transient analysis; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Couplings; Fault current limiters; Fault currents; High temperature superconductors; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic cores; Transient analysis; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Electromagnetic Field Computation, 2006 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Miami, FL
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0320-0
DOI :
10.1109/CEFC-06.2006.1633293