AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux Diverters
Iron cores are widely employed in high temperature superconducting (HTS) power devices to enhance the magnetic field and improve the power density. In spite of these benefits, the presence of iron cores leads to a substantial increase in AC loss within HTS coil windings. Therefore, it is necessary t...
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| description | Iron cores are widely employed in high temperature superconducting (HTS) power devices to enhance the magnetic field and improve the power density. In spite of these benefits, the presence of iron cores leads to a substantial increase in AC loss within HTS coil windings. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate the AC loss of HTS coil windings coupled with iron cores to propose methods for loss reduction. An effective way to reduce AC loss is to apply flux diverters (FDs) near the HTS coil windings. In this work, the 3D <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$A$ </tex-math></inline-formula> homogenization method is used to calculate AC losses of the 1DPC (double pancake coil)-, 2DPC-, 4DPC-, and 8DPC assemblies at different currents with four ferromagnetic combinations: with an iron core (IC), with an iron core and FDs (IC_FDs), with an air core (AirC), and with air core and FDs (AirC_FDs). To weaken the impact of the iron core, the enlarged distance between the iron core and coil assemblies is considered to investigate AC loss dependence on this distance. In addition, the influence of the positions of FDs on AC loss reduction is also analyzed. The simulation results demonstrate that FDs can reduce the AC loss in coil assemblies, even when the iron core is present, owing to the reduction of the perpendicular magnetic field component in the end discs. For the 4DPC and 8DPC assemblies with IC, increasing the distance while using FDs, or decreasing the vertical gap between the coil assemblies and FDs, are effective in reducing AC loss. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-faab46512abb49bb9e6faccad554337e2023-05-25T23:00:23ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111488264884010.1109/ACCESS.2023.327719610127972AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux DivertersYue Wu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3902-7943Jin Fang1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6789-7316Naoyuki Amemiya2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3000-864XRodney A. Badcock3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9570Nicholas J. Long4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2412-0683Zhenan Jiang5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3482-3510School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, ChinaGraduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JapanPaihau-Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Lower Hutt, New ZealandPaihau-Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Lower Hutt, New ZealandPaihau-Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Lower Hutt, New ZealandPaihau-Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Lower Hutt, New ZealandIron cores are widely employed in high temperature superconducting (HTS) power devices to enhance the magnetic field and improve the power density. In spite of these benefits, the presence of iron cores leads to a substantial increase in AC loss within HTS coil windings. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate the AC loss of HTS coil windings coupled with iron cores to propose methods for loss reduction. An effective way to reduce AC loss is to apply flux diverters (FDs) near the HTS coil windings. In this work, the 3D <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$A$ </tex-math></inline-formula> homogenization method is used to calculate AC losses of the 1DPC (double pancake coil)-, 2DPC-, 4DPC-, and 8DPC assemblies at different currents with four ferromagnetic combinations: with an iron core (IC), with an iron core and FDs (IC_FDs), with an air core (AirC), and with air core and FDs (AirC_FDs). To weaken the impact of the iron core, the enlarged distance between the iron core and coil assemblies is considered to investigate AC loss dependence on this distance. In addition, the influence of the positions of FDs on AC loss reduction is also analyzed. The simulation results demonstrate that FDs can reduce the AC loss in coil assemblies, even when the iron core is present, owing to the reduction of the perpendicular magnetic field component in the end discs. For the 4DPC and 8DPC assemblies with IC, increasing the distance while using FDs, or decreasing the vertical gap between the coil assemblies and FDs, are effective in reducing AC loss.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10127972/AC losssuperconducting coilsiron coreflux divertersfinite element method (FEM)3D T-A homogenization method |
| spellingShingle | Yue Wu Jin Fang Naoyuki Amemiya Rodney A. Badcock Nicholas J. Long Zhenan Jiang AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux Diverters IEEE Access AC loss superconducting coils iron core flux diverters finite element method (FEM) 3D T-A homogenization method |
| title | AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux Diverters |
| title_full | AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux Diverters |
| title_fullStr | AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux Diverters |
| title_full_unstemmed | AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux Diverters |
| title_short | AC Loss Reduction in HTS Coil Windings Coupled With an Iron Core Using Flux Diverters |
| title_sort | ac loss reduction in hts coil windings coupled with an iron core using flux diverters |
| topic | AC loss superconducting coils iron core flux diverters finite element method (FEM) 3D T-A homogenization method |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10127972/ |
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