• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.233-234
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• 2007

We investigated the quench characteristics in integrated three-phase flux-lock type superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL), which consisted of three-phase flux-lock reactor wound on one iron core with the same turn's ratio between coil 1 and coil 2 for each single phase. To study the quench characteristics of the SFCL, the experiments was performed on various fault type such as the single line-to-ground fault, the double line-to-ground fault, the triple line-to-ground fault. From the experimental results, the generated point of element resistances was different on various fault type.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.38-42
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• 2019

To protect the power systems from fault current, the rated protective equipment should be installed. However growth of power system scale and concentration of loads caused the large fault current in power transmission system and distribution system. And capacities of installed protective equipment have been exceeded the due to increase of fault current. This increase is not temporary phenomenon but will be steadily as long as the industry develops. The power system need a counter measurement for safety, so superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) has been received attention as an effective solutions to reduce the fault current. For the above reasons various type SFCL is studied recently. In this paper, the operational characteristics and power burden of trigger type SFCL is studied. The trigger type SFCL has been used for real system research in many countries. And another trigger type SFCL (double quench trigger type SFCL) is also studied. For this paper, short circuit test is performed.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.213-213
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• 2009

In this paper, we investigated the current limiting characteristics due to the application location of the superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) such as the feeder, the bus, the secondary side of transformer in a power distribution system. In addition, the quench and the recovery characteristics of the SFCL installed in each location of the power distribution system were compared each other. Through the analysis, in case that the SFCL was applied into the feeder line, its current limiting and voltage-drop compensating characteristics were confirmed to be the more effective. On the other hand, the power burden of the SFCL was increased higher compared to the SFCL'S other application location.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 1999

To fabricate a 0.7 FJ, 100 kVA $\mu$SMES device for improving power quality in sensitive electric loads, we developed a design code for a $\mu$SMES device and designed the 0.7 MJ $\mu$SMES device by using it. In this study special emphasis was placed in influence of winding tensions on quench currents of superconducting coils because dry superconducting coils are usually quenched by local disturbances due to strand motions. We first investigated the quench currents of a few kA class superconducting cables for various winding tensions experimentally. To prove the validity of the code and develop all techniques related to fabrication and test of the 0.7 MJ $\mu$SMES device, a smaller size superconducting coil was wound with high winding tension of about 15 kgf/$mm^2$ based on the test results of superconducting cables and tested. It isshown form the test results that designed parameters for the smaller size superconducting coil are in good agreements with measured ones and the quench current of the coil with high winding tension reaches nearly to the critical current of the superconducting cable without any training effects.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제52권11호
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• pp.557-562
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• 2003

To develop a stable and compact small-sized superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system, which provides electric power with high quality to sensitive electric loads, we fabricated a SMES coil and tested it. Because such a large-sized superconducting coil quenches far away from its critical current, the recovery current is frequently used as a stability criterion in the coil fabrication. Therefore, we first investigated the recovery current characteristics of the large current conductor, which was used in our SMES coil fabrication. The test results indicate that the recovery currents measured in the conductor are nearly identical to those based on the single wire. This implies that the recovery current is affected by the conductor's cooling condition rather than its size and current capacity. In the SMES coil test the first quench occurred at 1250 A, which is equivalent to the stored energy of about 2 MJ. It corresponds to the quench current density of about $130A/mm^2$ This value is much higher in comparison with that reported in the other work. In addition, the first quench current of the coil agrees well with the measured recovery current of the conductor having similar cooling condition with it. This means that to determine the recovery current of a conductor is, first of all, important in the design and fabrication of a large-sized superconducting coil.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제16권12S호
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• pp.1286-1291
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• 2003

Quench behavior of resistive superconducting fault current limiters (SFCLS) with various pattern shapes was investigated. The pattern shapes employed were meander, bi-spiral, and spital shapes of identical line width, gap and margin. SFCLS were fabricated from YBCO thin films grown on two-inch diameter Al$_2$O$_3$ substrates under the same conditions. The total length of current limiting paths was the shortest at the spital shape due to its larger useless space. Inductance component of SFCLs with the spiral shape was around two times as high as those of other two shapes. This is not desirable since impedance characteristics of existing power systems can be changed. Resistance rise of current limiting elements was low at a spiral shape before the whole quench completion, which may act as a disadvantage for simultaneous quench in serial connection between current limiting elements, but the temperature tended to have similar values at higher voltages. On the other hand, hi-spital shape was severe at insulation level between current limiting lines. When these aspects were considered, we concluded that a meander shape was appropriate to design for a resistive SFCL based on thin films except the concentration of electric field at edge areas of strip lines.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.277-280
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• 1999

We fabricated a resistive superconducting fault current limiter of two stripe meander type based on a YBCO film, and performed current limitation experiments. In order to disperse the heat generated at hot spots in the YBCO film the film was coated with a gold shunt layer. At $0^{\circ}$ fault angle the minimum quench current was $9.6 A_{peak}$(meander line cross section: $5{\times}10^{-6}cm^2$) and the fast quench time was 0.63 msec. The resistance of the limiter continued to increase for three cycles due to heat generation in the gold layer and was stabilized afterwards. At $45^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$ the fast quench time were 0.56 msec and 0.26 msec, respectively. The quench time is believed to be reduced because faults occurred when the current was increasing or was at the peak value. With the limiter we could effectively limit the fault current about 1/5 times right after the fault and about 1/8.5 times three cycles after.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.22-25
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• 2006

This paper deals with the computation of the current limiting behavior of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) modules for the superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL). The SFCL module consists of a monofilar type BSCCO-2212 tube and a shunt coil made of copper or brass. The shunt coil is connected to the monofilar superconducting tube in parallel. Through analysis of the quench behavior of the monofilar component with shunt coils, it is achieved to drive an equivalent circuit equation from the experimental circuit structure. In order to analyze the quench behavior of the SFCL module, we derived a partial differential equation technique. Inductance of the monofilar component and the impedance of the shunt coil are calculated by Bio-Savart and Ohm's formula, respectively. We computed the quench behavior using the calculated values, and compared the results with experimental results for the quench characteristics of a component. The results of computation and test agreed well each other, and it was concluded that the analytic result could be applied effectively to design of the distribution-level SFCL system.

• 한국초전도저온공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도저온공학회 1999년도 제1회 학술대회논문집(KIASC 1st conference 99)
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• pp.134-137
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• 1999

This paper describes the design, code of a $\mu$SMES device that we developed. The 0.7MJ $\mu$SMES coil was wound with high winding tension of about 14kbf/$mm^{2}$ in order to prevent wire motion from Lorentz force. This coil was charged up to a current of 1820A with a ramping rate of about 10A/s, where a quench occurred. This quench current is sbout 82% fo the coil critical current.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.268-270
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• 1999

A dry winding is adopted in ${\mu}$ SMES devices. In these kinds of devices, MPZ and quench propagation velocity are important characteristics in the fabrication of ${\mu}$SMES devices. In this Paper, the influence of disturbance, Cu ratio and external field on MPZ and quench propagation velocity was investigated.