Testing of 3-meter prototype fault current limiting cables

Michael J. Gouge; R. C. Duckworth; J. A. Demko; C. M. Rey; J. R. Thompson; D. L. Lindsay; J. C. Tolbert; D. Willen; H. Lentge; C. Thidemann; I. D. Kledal; W. L. Carter

doi:10.1109/TASC.2009.2018310

Testing of 3-meter prototype fault current limiting cables

Michael J. Gouge, R. C. Duckworth, J. A. Demko, C. M. Rey, J. R. Thompson, D. L. Lindsay, J. C. Tolbert, D. Willen, H. Lentge, C. Thidemann, I. D. Kledal, W. L. Carter

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Abstract

Two 3-m long, single-phase cables have been fabricated by Ultera from second generation (2G) superconductor wire supplied by American Superconductor. The first cable was made with two layers of 2G tape conductor and had a critical current of 5,750 A while the second cable had four layers and a critical current of 8,500 A. AC loss was measured for both cables at ac currents of up to 4 kA_rms. Ultera performed initial fault current studies of both cables in Denmark with limited currents in the range from 9.1 to 44 kA. Results from these tests will provide a basis for a 25-m long, three-phase, prototype cable to be tested at ORNL early next year and a 300-m long, fault current limiting, superconducting cable to be installed in a Consolidated Edison substation in NewYork City.

Original language	English
Article number	5067014
Pages (from-to)	1744-1747
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2009.2018310
State	Published - Jun 2009

Funding

Manuscript received August 18, 2008. First published June 05, 2009; current version published July 15, 2009. This work was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, under Interagency Agreement HSHQDC-08-X-00062 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed and operated by UT-Battelle, LLC. M. J. Gouge, R. C. Duckworth, J. A. Demko, C. M. Rey and J. R. Thompson are with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA (e-mail: [email protected]). D. L. Lindsay and J. C. Tolbert are with Southwire Company, Carrollton, GA 30119, USA (e-mail: [email protected]). D. Willen, H. Lentge and C. Thidemann are with nktcables a/s, Denmark (e-mail: [email protected]). I. D. Kledal is with the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. W. L. Carter is with American Superconductor Corporation, Devens, MA 01434, USA (e-mail: [email protected]). 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.2009.2018310

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Science and Technology Directorate	HSHQDC-08-X-00062

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High-temperature superconductors
Power transmission lines
Superconducting cables

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