Testing of an HTS power cable made from YBCO tapes

M. J. Gouge; J. A. Demko; R. C. Duckworth; D. T. Lindsay; C. M. Rey; M. L. Roden; J. C. Tolbert

doi:10.1109/TASC.2007.897211

Testing of an HTS power cable made from YBCO tapes

M. J. Gouge, J. A. Demko, R. C. Duckworth, D. T. Lindsay, C. M. Rey, M. L. Roden, J. C. Tolbert

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Abstract

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has designed, built, and tested a 1.25-m-long, prototype high temperature superconducting (HTS) power cable made from second-generation YBa₂Cu₃O_x (YBCO)-coated conductor tapes. Electrical tests of this cable were performed in liquid nitrogen at 77 K. DC testing of the HTS cable included determination of the V-I curve with a critical current of about 2100 A, which was consistent with the critical currents of the two layers of 4.4-mm wide YBCO tapes. AC testing of the cable was conducted at currents up to about 1500 A_rms. The ac losses were determined electrically by use of a Rogowski coil with a lock-in amplifier. Over-current testing was conducted at peak current values up to 4.9 kA for pulse lengths of 0.3-0.5 s. Test results are compared to earlier data from a 1.25-m-long power cable made from 1-cm-wide YBCO tapes and also comparable BSCCO cables. This commercial-grade HTS cable demonstrated the feasibility of second-generation YBCO tapes in an ac cable application.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1708-1711
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume	17
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2007.897211
State	Published - Jun 2007

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Manuscript received August 29, 2006. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Superconductivity Program for Electric Power Systems, under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC and the Korean Cooperative Science Program.

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High-temperature superconductors
Power transmission lines
Superconducting cables

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