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Improvement of Degradation Characteristics in a Large, Racetrack-shaped 2G HTS Coil for MW-class Rotating Machines

  • Park, Heui Joo (R&D Institute of DOOSAN Heavy Ind. & Cons. Co.) ;
  • Kim, Yeong-chun (R&D Institute of DOOSAN Heavy Ind. & Cons. Co.) ;
  • Moon, Heejong (R&D Institute of DOOSAN Heavy Ind. & Cons. Co.) ;
  • Park, Minwon (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Changwon University) ;
  • Yu, Inkeun (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Changwon University)
  • Received : 2017.10.19
  • Accepted : 2017.12.12
  • Published : 2018.05.01
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Abstract

Degradation due to delamination occurs frequently in the high temperature superconductors (HTS) coil of rotating machines made with 2nd generation (2G) HTS wire, and the authors have observed other similar cases. Since an HTS field coil for a rotating machine is required to have stable current control and maintain a steady state, co-winding techniques for insulation material and epoxy resin for shape retention and heat transfer improvement are applied during coil fabrication. However, the most important limiting factor of this technique is delamination, which is known to be caused by the difference in thermal expansion between the epoxy resin and 2G HTS wire. Therefore, in this study, the experimental results of mixing the ratio of epoxy resin and alumina ($Al_2O3$) filler were applied to the fabrication of small and large test coils to solve the problem of degradation. For the verification of this scheme, eight prototypes of single pancake coils with different shapes were fabricated. They showed good results. The energization and operation maintenance tests of the stacked coils were carried out under liquid neon conditions similar to the operation temperature of an MW-class rotating machine. In conclusion, it was confirmed that the alumina powder mixed with epoxy resin in an appropriate ratio is an effective solution of de-lamination problem of 2G HTS coil.

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