Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
2, JUNE 2007
Manuscript received August 29, 2006. This work was supported by a grant
from Center for Applied Superconductivity Technology of the 21st Century
II. NUMERICAL MODEL
Frontier R&D Program funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Re-
public of Korea.
The cross-sectional view of the cylindrical conductors for nu-
Y. H. Ma, Z. Y. Li, and K. Ryu are with the Department of Electrical merical analysis is depicted in Fig. 1. The governing equation
Engineering, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, 500-757 Korea (e-mail: in two dimensions is represented by
ramon800612@hanmail.net; y82610@hanmail.net; kwryu@chonnam.ac.kr).
S. Choi is with Magnet Development Group, Superconducting Materials
Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0003, (1)
Japan (e-mail: CHOI.Seyong@nims.go.jp).
K. B. Park and I. S. Oh are with Technology R&D Center, LS Industrial Sys-
tems, Chongju, 361-720 Korea (e-mail: kbparkd@lsis.biz; isoh@lsis.biz). where is the permeability of free space, is the z-compo-
H. J. Song is with the School of Nano Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae,
621-749 Korea (e-mail: hjsong@inje.ac.kr).
nent of magnetic vector potential, is the conductivity of
G. Cha is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Soonchun- superconductor, and is the electric scalar potential, respec-
hyang University, Shinchang, Asan, Choongnam 336-746, Korea (e-mail: tively. The details about numerical computations of (1) are de-
gsoocha@sch.ac.kr). scribed in [5]. AC loss per unit length can be calculated by inte-
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online
at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. grating local energy dissipation over cross-section of HTS core
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TASC.2007.898326 as shown in Fig. 1.
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TABLE I
SPECIFICATIONS OF THE CYLINDRICAL CONDUCTORS
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Fig. 4. AC loss vs. peak transport current for different contact positions in the
conductor A with high critical current density.
Fig. 3. (a) Voltage lead’s arrangement and (b) frequency dependence of the AC
losses in the conductor A with high critical current density.
as in Fig. 1(a) and the solid line based on monoblock model with
a cylindrical cross section:
Fig. 5. AC loss vs. peak transport current for different contact positions in the
(3) conductor B with low critical current density.
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Fig. 6. AC loss vs. peak transport current for different contact positions in the
conductor C with low n-value. V. CONCLUSION
In this work, we prepared the kA-class cylindrical conduc-
tors made of an HTS with different critical current density and
the AC losses of the conductor C made of Bi-2212 bulk for n-value such as a Bi-2223 tape and Bi-2212 bulk material, and
various voltage leads placed around an outer circumference at investigated their AC loss characteristics.
180 Hz as shown in Fig. 1(b). The results are shown in Fig. 6. The measured losses of the conductor A, which consists of
The calculated losses from both monoblock model of (3) and a Bi-2223 tape with high critical current density, are in good
numerical analysis of (1) with the cylinder model are also agreement with the numerically calculated ones based on the
depicted in Fig. 6. It can be seen from Fig. 6 that the measured polygon model. However, the AC losses of the conductor B with
AC losses are the same regardless of contact positions of the low critical current density coincide with the calculated losses
voltage leads as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. However, the AC loss from the monoblock model. Moreover, the measured losses of
characteristic of the conductor C is significantly different from the Bi-2212 hollow conductor disagree with the calculated ones
those of the conductors A and B: the measured losses of the from both the monoblock model and the numerical analysis with
hollow conductor disagree with the calculated ones from the the cylindrical model. This is due to low n-value of 8.5 in the
monoblock model. Moreover, they are smaller than the losses Bi-2212 hollow conductor compared with the Bi-2223 conduc-
from numerical analysis of (1) with the cylinder model as in tors of A and B.
Fig. 1(b). This is due to the frequency dependence of transport
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