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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 121, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4978593
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China Modeling and experimental study on the electromagnetic and thermal characteristics of no-insulation high temperature superconductor coils, [51577119]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1565546] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This paper is to study ramping turn-to-turn loss and magnetization loss of a no-insulation (NI) high temperature superconductor (HTS) pancake coil wound with (RE) Ba2Cu3Ox (REBCO) conductors. For insulated (INS) HTS coils, a magnetization loss occurs on superconducting layers during a ramping operation. For the NI HTS coil, additional loss is generated by the bypassing current on the turn-to-turn metallic contacts, which is called turn-to-turn loss in this study. Therefore, the NI coil's ramping loss is much different from that of the INS coil, but few studies have been reported on this aspect. To analyze the ramping losses of NI coils, a numerical method is developed by coupling an equivalent circuit network model and a H-formulation finite element method model. The former model is to calculate NI coil's current distribution and turn-to-turn loss, and the latter model is to calculate the magnetization loss. A test NI pancake coil is wound with REBCO tapes and the reliability of this model is validated by experiments. Then the characteristics of the NI coil's ramping losses are studied using this coupling model. Results show that the turn-to-turn loss is much higher than the magnetization loss. The NI coil's total ramping loss is much higher than that of its insulated counterpart, which has to be considered carefully in the design and operation of NI applications. This paper also discusses the possibility to reduce NI coil's ramping loss by decreasing the ramping rate of power supply or increasing the coil's turn-to-turn resistivity.
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