TY - JOUR
T1 - Test of a twin coil HTS SMES for high power pulse operation
AU - Badel, A.
AU - Tixador, P.
AU - Deleglise, M.
AU - Dedié, P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 03, 2010; accepted October 25, 2010. Date of publication November 29, 2010; date of current version May 27, 2011. This work was supported by the French General Delegation for Ordnance (DGA). A. Badel is with Neel Institute, CNRS, 38042 Grenoble cedex 9, France (e-mail: arnaud.badel@grenoble.cnrs.fr). P. Tixador is with Grenoble Electrical Engineering Laboratory, ENSE3 bat D, 38402 St Martin d’Hères Cedex, France (e-mail: pascal.tixador@grenoble. cnrs.fr). M. Deleglise was with CNRS Grenoble, 38042 Grenoble cedex 9, France. P. Dedié is with Saint Louis Institute, 68301 Saint Louis cedex, France (e-mail: dedie@isl.tm.fr). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TASC.2010.2090321
Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - We designed and constructed a twin coil conduction-cooled HTS SMES (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage using High Temperature Superconductor) for pulse power operation and sequential discharge. The distance between the two coils and their respective inductances were calculated to obtain identical energy during sequential discharge. Both coils are designed for high voltage operation up to 4 kV. Moreover, the second coil is split in 3 to test the XRAM principle, which consists in charging inductances in series and discharging them in parallel to sum up their currents. The upper coil reached its rated current (250 A), it was tested up to 3 kV during fast discharge in a power capacitor. The lower coil, rated at 300 A, was tested in XRAM operation up to 200 A, the current output thus reaching 600 A. The characteristics of the demonstrator will be introduced; the experimental setting will then be presented along with the tests results.
AB - We designed and constructed a twin coil conduction-cooled HTS SMES (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage using High Temperature Superconductor) for pulse power operation and sequential discharge. The distance between the two coils and their respective inductances were calculated to obtain identical energy during sequential discharge. Both coils are designed for high voltage operation up to 4 kV. Moreover, the second coil is split in 3 to test the XRAM principle, which consists in charging inductances in series and discharging them in parallel to sum up their currents. The upper coil reached its rated current (250 A), it was tested up to 3 kV during fast discharge in a power capacitor. The lower coil, rated at 300 A, was tested in XRAM operation up to 200 A, the current output thus reaching 600 A. The characteristics of the demonstrator will be introduced; the experimental setting will then be presented along with the tests results.
KW - High-temperature superconductors
KW - Pulse power systems
KW - Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2010.2090321
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2010.2090321
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955018689
VL - 21
SP - 1375
EP - 1378
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
SN - 1051-8223
IS - 3 PART 2
M1 - 5643941
ER -