Exploiting asymmetric wire critical current for the reduction of AC loss in HTS coil windings

Jiang, Zhenan; Endo, Naoki; Wimbush, Stuart C.; Brooks, J.; Song, Wenjuan; Badcock, Rodney A.; Miyagi, Daisuke; Tsuda, Makoto

doi:10.1088/2399-6528/ab4437

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“…A finite element method (FEM) based on the H-formulation [2], [19]- [23] was used to calculate the ac loss in infinitely long copper strips and REBCO conductors under an applied ac magnetic field. The governing equations of the H-formulation are derived from the Maxwell equations [Ampere's law (1) and Faraday's law (2)] and the E-J relationship (3)…”

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Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba₂Cu₃O_7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations

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IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.

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Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7-d (REBCO) coated conductors are becoming a preferred wire choice for many potential high temperature superconducting (HTS) applications, where additional metal layers are usually attached to the REBCO conductors to improve reliability and stability. In such cases, the eddy current loss in the metal layers is affected by the magnetic field shielding by adjacent REBCO coated conductors. Here we present the ac loss measurement and simulation results in three copper-superconductor stacks comprising a 10-mm-wide Fujikura-coated conductor with one, two, and four 0.1-mm-thick, 10-mm-wide copper strips, under various applied magnetic field angles (defined by the angle between the applied magnetic field and the wide face of the superconductor) from 15°to 90°at 77 K. The amplitude of the magnetic field is up to 100 mT. The shielding effect, which reduces the eddy current loss in the metal layers stacked with a superconductor layer, increases with decreasing field angles, due to the change of the effective penetration field at the different field angles. The eddy current loss in the copper strips in the copper-superconductor stacks under the magnetic fields with various orientations is dominated by the perpendicular magnetic field component.

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“…In the 2-D FEM model, the real dimensions of the copper strips and REBCO conductor were used where the superconducting layer is 1-μm-thick. Structured meshes were applied to both superconductor and copper layer [2], [19]. There were 400 elements along their width direction.…”

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Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba₂Cu₃O_7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations

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“…1. The influence of the asymmetric critical current characteristics of coated conductors on dynamic resistance in a coated conductor 9,10 and AC loss of coil windings [11][12][13] have been reported in recent studies. The REBCO conductors are inevitably exposed to AC magnetic fields with various field angles, and there must be a similar influence of asymmetric I c (B, θ) on the magnetization loss of the coated conductors.…”

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Role of asymmetric critical current on magnetization loss characteristics of (RE)Ba2Cu3O7−d coated conductors at various temperatures

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Journal of Applied Physics

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“…Such assumption is not consistent with the new finding that the REBCO CCs exhibit asymmetric critical current characteristics at a full-360 field-angle range [41,42] . The asymmetric critical current characteristics have been considered when studying the dynamic resistance of a REBCO CC [43] and transport loss in REBCO coils [44,45] , but still yet to be explored for the magnetization loss. It is necessary to study the role of the asymmetric critical current on magnetization loss, which will characterize the underling magnetization loss behaviours and give insights to further understand loss generation mechanisms.…”

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AC Loss Research of REBCO High-Tc Superconductors Carrying a DC Current in an AC Magnetic Field

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AbstractREBCO (REBa2Cu3O7-d, RE stands for rare earth) high temperature superconducting (HTS) coated conductors (CCs) have become the preferred wire choice for HTS applications due to their high current carrying capacity and advanced mechanical properties. In many HTS applications such as HTS synchronous motors, HTS flux pumps and HTS persistent current switches, REBCO CCs, stacks and coils carry DC currents in an AC magnetic field environment, generating AC loss comprising of dynamic loss component arising from dynamic resistance and the magnetization loss component due to the shielding currents. AC loss behaviours of commercial-available REBCO CCs in such operating conditions haven’t been fully explored with the most prominent research question of how the AC loss and each loss component evolve and behave in the single REBCO CC, REBCO stacks and REBCO coils at different temperatures with various operating conditions. Other interesting open questions are also put forward to underpin relevant engineering applications: how the shielding effect of REBCO CCs influences the eddy current loss in adjacent copper layers at various field orientation; what kind of inherent correlation exists between the asymmetric field-orientation-dependent critical current characteristics and the magnetization loss behaviors; and how the loss behaviours in REBCO stacks and coils differentiate from the REBCO CC; what’s the difference between the REBCO racetrack coil and the REBCO double pancake coil regarding characteristics of the critical current, magnetization loss, dynamic resistance and AC loss under the condition of the combined DC current with the AC magnetic field. This thesis aims to underpin the REBCO HTS applications and reveal the underlying AC loss mechanism through systematically experimental and numerical research on AC loss and dynamic resistance in REBCO CCs, REBCO stacks and REBCO coils that operate at various electromagnetic conditions and temperatures (65 K ~ 77 K). This research has revealed many new phenomena in the loss evolution process and reached illuminating conclusions. We uncover the shielding effect of REBCO CCs under various field orientations is dominated by the perpendicular magnetic field component, and so does the reduced eddy current loss in the adjacent copper layers of the copper-superconductor stacks. When exploring the role of asymmetric field-orientation-dependent critical current on the magnetization loss of REBCO CCs, we reveal that the asymmetry of critical current about the ab-peak within the 360 full-field-angle range causes differences in magnetization loss values at the field angles which are in mirror symmetry relative to the ab-plane. Furthermore, it is surprising and contradicting to find that magnetization loss at any given field orientation is unequal between the positive and the negative half-field cycle due to the asymmetry of critical current upon the field reversal. The asymmetric field-orientation dependence of both critical current and magnetization loss becomes more obvious with the increasing magnetic field amplitudes and the decreasing temperatures. The complicated AC loss evolution process in REBCO CCs under AC magnetic fields and DC currents is probed by demonstrating the striking behaviours: the dynamic loss region and magnetization loss region vary across the conductor width at high magnetic fields or high DC current levels; the (positive) DC current is superposed with the anti-parallel (negative) shielding current at high DC current levels that approaching to the self-critical current, which drives the local current density of one conductor edge to the subcritical stage and leads to one-sided loss generation in each half-cycle. At the liquid nitrogen temperature range, experimental and simulation results exemplify that the AC loss is mostly dominated by magnetization loss when DC current is less than 20% critical current, while dynamic loss makes a comparable, even greater contribution to AC loss when DC current is larger than 50% critical current. The dynamic resistance shows an obvious frequency dependence due to the heating accumulation at high field amplitudes, high DC current levels and high operating temperatures, which provides a useful reference for the application designs of HTS flux pumps and HTS persistent current switches. Compared with the single REBCO CC, the onset of dynamic resistance/loss in REBCO stacks and REBCO coils is much slower, and the contribution of the dynamic loss component to the AC loss is also much smaller. Dynamic loss in the stack becomes greater than the magnetization loss when the DC current is larger than 70% critical current, while always less than the magnetization loss in the coils when the AC magnetic field is less than 0.1 T. We also conclude that the critical current, magnetization loss and dynamic resistance/loss per unite length in the REBCO racetrack coil is slightly larger than those of the REBCO pancake coil. The main contribution of this work is to reveal the complex AC loss mechanism in REBOC CCs, stacks and coils carrying DC currents in the AC magnetic field and characterize the loss behaviours via solid experimental measurements and numerical simulations. Meanwhile, the magnetization loss as the dominant loss component is further explored concerning its shielding effect and the asymmetric critical current characteristics. This work exemplifies the underlying nature of AC loss behaviours, providing a valuable reference to understand the loss mechanism and to underpin relevant HTS applications.

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Exploiting asymmetric wire critical current for the reduction of AC loss in HTS coil windings

Cited by 21 publications

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Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba₂Cu₃O_7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations

Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba₂Cu₃O_7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations

Role of asymmetric critical current on magnetization loss characteristics of (RE)Ba2Cu3O7−d coated conductors at various temperatures

AC Loss Research of REBCO High-Tc Superconductors Carrying a DC Current in an AC Magnetic Field

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Exploiting asymmetric wire critical current for the reduction of AC loss in HTS coil windings

Cited by 21 publications

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Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba2Cu3O7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations

Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba2Cu3O7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations

Role of asymmetric critical current on magnetization loss characteristics of (RE)Ba2Cu3O7−d coated conductors at various temperatures

AC Loss Research of REBCO High-Tc Superconductors Carrying a DC Current in an AC Magnetic Field

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Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba₂Cu₃O_7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations

Shielding Effect of (RE)Ba₂Cu₃O_7-d-Coated Conductors on Eddy Current Loss of Adjacent Metal Layers Under AC Magnetic Fields With Various Orientations