An innovative compact saturable-core HTS Fault Current Limiter - development, testing and application to transmission class networks

Author

Moriconi, Franco ; De La Rosa, Francisco ; Singh, Amandeep ; Chen, Bill ; Levitskaya, Marina ; Nelson, Albert

Author_Institution

Zenergy Power, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

25-29 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The development and testing of an innovative and compact saturating-reactor High Temperature Superconductor Fault Current Limiter (HTS FCL) is described. The development includes an initial dry-type magnetic core design with iron cores partially encircled by an HTS DC coil and a recently completed oil-immersed design with magnetic cores enclosed in a metallic tank placed inside the warm bore of a rectangular HTS DC magnet. The first 15 kV HTS FCL was installed in Southern California Edison´s grid in 2009 and the first transmission-class 138 kV Compact HTS FCL is planned to be in operation in American Electric Power´s grid in 2011.

Keywords

fault current limiters; high-temperature superconductors; magnetic cores; transmission networks; HTS DC coil; Southern California Edison grid; dry-type magnetic core design; high-temperature superconductor fault current limiter; innovative compact saturable-core HTS Fault Current Limiter; iron cores; magnetic cores; metallic tank; oil-immersed design; transmission-class compact HTS FCL; Distribution Class FCL; Fault Current Limiter; HTS FCL; Limited Fault Current; Prospective Fault Current; Saturated-Core FCL; Saturating Reactor; Superconducting Coil; Transmission Class FCL;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6549-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2010.5590090

Filename

5590090