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Characterizations of a Novel Structure of Fault-Tolerant HTS Cable

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This paper presents a type of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable, which is fabricated by winding the second generation (2G) HTS tapes on round former consisting of stranded stainless steel (SS) wires. It has the advantages of strong flexibility, high mechanical strength, and high engineering current density. With taking the resistivity of SS much larger than that of copper or aluminum, the cable has higher resistance and strength than the conventional HTS cable with former made from copper strands at condition of fault accident. After the configuration of the cable is designed in detail, the quenching resistance and fault current limiting are numerically analyzed. We fabricate a model cable and carry out the experiment of fault current. The experimental results show that the quenching resistance of this cable is much higher than the resistance of conventional underground XLPE cable and overhead conductor, which indicates that the proposed cable has a strong ability of fault current limiting and can be applicable in HTS devices with functions of fault current limiting such HTS cable, transformer, motor/generator, and current limiter.

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This work was supported in part by the State Grid under Grant DG71-19-004.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System, Renewable Energy Sources North China Electric Power University Bei**g, Bei**g, 102206, China

    Qiangqiang Kang, Yinshun Wang, Yukai Qiao, Wei Liu, Siming Ma & Yueyin Wang

  2. Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Liaoning Electric Co., Ltd., Shenyang, 110006, Liaoning, China

    Defu Wei & Tie Guo

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Kang, Q., Wang, Y., Qiao, Y. et al. Characterizations of a Novel Structure of Fault-Tolerant HTS Cable. J Supercond Nov Magn 34, 1147–1155 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-021-05825-x

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