• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.13-18
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• 2013

The authors designed a high temperature superconductor (HTS) racetrack coil for a 10 MW class superconducting synchronous wind turbine generator. The designed HTS racetrack coil was analyzed by an electromagnetic finite element method (FEM) to determine the magnetic field distribution, inductance, stress, etc. This paper describes the stress analysis and structure design result of the HTS racetrack coil for 10 MW class superconducting synchronous wind turbine generators, considering orthotropic material properties, a large magnetic field, and the resulting Lorentz force effect. Insulated HTS racetrack coils and no-insulation HTS racetrack coils were also considered. According to the results of the stress analysis, the no-insulation HTS racetrack coil results were better than the insulated HTS racetrack coil results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07a
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• pp.95-97
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• 1995

A superconducting current generator, or a superconducting rectifier(SCR) is used as a current source to energize a superconducting magnets in SMES, MRI. We selected a full-wave SCR among various SCR models and analyzed its operational characteristics by computer simulation. In process of pumping the current, the improvement of performance is dependent on how much bigger the open resistance of the switch is in comparison to load coil impedance when one of two switches become active. Faster transfer can he seen in resistive commutation mode by shortening the time elapsed for the resistance to arrive at certain level from zero state. Although recovery time for the switch has no direct effect on current pumping, optimal switch design is needed to increasing operational frequency.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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• 1999.02a
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• pp.146-149
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• 1999

A 30kVA superconducting generator has been designed, developed and successfully tested recently. The design is based on 2-dimensional electromagnetic field analysis. The rotor has been wound with superconducting wire of Nb-Ti alloy. The stator has the air-gap type armature windings. Open-circuit test, short-circuit test and lamp load test have been conducted. The details of design program, design, machinebuilding, test results and conclusions are given in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.131-131
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• 2001

FY2000, Japanese government has started three new projects on superconductive power application. Two are succeeding projects of flywheel energy storage and superconducting generator. The other one is fully new project on ac application of superconductivity. Therefore, there are four national projects in Japan on power application of superconductivity, including SMES project Though each project will be reviewed in detail in my talk, outlines are as follows; SMES : FY1999-FY2003, carried by ISTEC Superconducting generator: FY2000-FY2003, carried by Super-GM AC application: FY2000-FY2004, carried by Super-GM Flywheel energy storage: FY2000-FY2004 carried by ISTEC.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.7-13
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• 2000

A rotating cryogenic system was designed similar to the cooling system for the rotor of a superconducting generator. The experimental rotor has an inner vessel which simulates the winding space of an actual superconducting rotor, and a torque tube of comparable design. This paper describes the evaluation of the total heat leak into the inner vessel that leads to the study of the heat transfer characteristic of the rotating cryogenic system. To examine the insulation performance of the experimental rotor. temperature was measured at each part of the system at various rotaing speeds from 0 rpm to 600 rpm. Total heat leak into the inner vessel was calculated by measuring the boil-off rate of liquid helium. Conduction heat leak to the inner vessel was obtained by the vent tube, and radiation heat leak was calculated by subtracting the conduction heat lent from the total heat leak. There seemed to be no rotaional dependency of total heat leak at least up 600 rpm.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.101-106
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• 2001

Air-cored superconducting synchronous generator(ASSG) is characterized by an air-cored machine with its rotor iron and stator iron teeth removed. For this reason, in the case of the shape optimum design of ASSG, other design variables different from an iron-cored machine should be considered, which will lead to substantial improvement on the performance. The major design variables that are considered by using Three-dimensional Finite element Method(3D FEM) in this paper are : 1) field coil width, 2) axial length of magnetic shield, and 3) armature winding method. End-ring of armature winding is considered in the calculation of EMF. When it comes to field coil width, as field coil width enlarges, its effective field increases but the maximum field on the superconductor decreases. this determines the critical current density. this study presents an effective field coil width, axial length of magnetic shield, and armature winding method, and also the analysis is verified by the experimental results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.238-240
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• 1999

In this paper, the protection resistance determination for the field winding in superconducting generator is suggested. To protect the field winding in a generator, they usually use the external resistance to decrease the field current more rapidly when quench occurs in the winding. Since the field winding is actually separated into four sections (magnets), we have choices to insert 1, 2, and 4 external resistances. For each case, the current decay and the voltages across e winding are calculated, and we can choose the best external resistance.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.250-253
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• 1998

This paper has proposed a method to analyze a 30 KVA superconducting generator using 3-dimensional FEM program. 3 kinds of 3D formulation methods are employed such as scalar potential in core region, reduced scalar potential in air region and T-${\omega}$ formulation in stator coil region. As results of the simulation, various parameters of the generator have been analyzed like air gap flux density, induced voltage, inductance, etc.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.94-96
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• 1998

The paper is described about the calculation method of the basic design dimensions, magnetic field distribution and equivalent circuit parameters for superconducting generator. To analyze the flux density, the induced voltage and the electromotive force, the airgap flux density government equation is derived from generator's analysis model.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.15-23
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• 2019

High temperature superconducting (HTS) generators for wind power systems are attractively researched with the advantages of high efficiency and smaller size compared with conventional generator. However, the HTS generators have high Lorentz force problem, which acts on HTS field coils due to their high current density and magnetic field. This paper deals with characteristic analysis of the modularized HTS field coil for a 750 kW superconducting wind power generator according to field coil structure. The modularized HTS field coil structure was designed based on the electromagnetic and mechanical analysis results obtained using a 3D finite element method. The electromagnetic force of the module coil was also analyzed. As a result, the perpendicular and maximum magnetic fields of the HTS coils were 2.5 T and 3.9 T, respectively. The maximum stress of the supports was less than the allowable stress of the glass-fiber reinforced plastic material, and displacement was within the acceptable range. The design specifications and the results of the HTS module coil structure can be effectively utilized to develop large-scale superconducting wind power generators.