Quench Development Due to External Magnetic Field in HTS Cable Conductor Transporting AC Current

Author

Yim, Seong-Woo ; Lim, Sung-Hun ; Sohn, Song-Ho ; Hwang, Si-Dole ; Yang, Sung-Chae

Author_Institution

Chonbuk Nat. Univ., Chonju

Volume

16

Issue

2

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1606

Lastpage

1609

Abstract

In this study, a prototype HTS cable conductor with 1 layer of 10 Bi-2223/Ag tapes was fabricated and the quench development due to the influence of external magnetic fields was investigated. Firstly, AC current whose peak value amounts around two times critical current was applied to the HTS cable conductor. From the experiments, the influence of self field was considered to be small enough not to affect the transporting characteristics. Secondly, external magnetic fields of 50 and 100 mT were applied to the HTS cable conductor transporting AC current. In this case, due to the directional dependence of Bi-2223/Ag tapes on magnetic field, various magnitudes of voltages were detected in each strand. Finally, the quench development with the magnitude of the applied external magnetic field was analyzed

Keywords

critical currents; high-temperature superconductors; power cable testing; superconducting cables; superconducting tapes; 100 mT; 50 mT; AC current transport characteristics; Bi-2223-Ag tapes fabrication; high-temperature superconducting cable conductor; magnetic field; quench development; Conductors; Critical current; High temperature superconductors; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Magnetic shielding; Power cables; Superconducting cables; Voltage; Wires; AC current; HTS cable conductor; external magnetic field; quench;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2006.870516

Filename

1643165