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Journal of Physics: Conference Series OPEN ACCESS Design and modelling of a SMES coil To cite this article: Weijia Yuan et al 2010 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 234 032068 View the article online for updates and enhancements. You may also like Application of Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage in Microgrid Containing New Energy Junzhen Peng, Shengnan Li, Tingyi He et al. - Characterisation and Control of a Prototype HTS SMES Device C J Hawley, D Cuiuri, C D Cook et al. - A new design of SMES coil for bridging instantaneous voltage dips T Kurusu, M Ono, H Ogata et al. - Recent citations A comparative study of triaxial and uniaxial magnetic shields made out of YBCO coated conductors L Wéra et al - Numerical Simulation of MgB 2 Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Coil Athanasios G. Mamalis et al - Design and Test of a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) Coil Weijia Yuan et al - This content was downloaded from IP address 46.21.208.131 on 29/12/2021 at 19:49

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Journal of Physics Conference Series

OPEN ACCESS

Design and modelling of a SMES coilTo cite this article Weijia Yuan et al 2010 J Phys Conf Ser 234 032068

View the article online for updates and enhancements

You may also likeApplication of Superconducting MagneticEnergy Storage in Microgrid ContainingNew EnergyJunzhen Peng Shengnan Li Tingyi He etal

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Characterisation and Control of aPrototype HTS SMES DeviceC J Hawley D Cuiuri C D Cook et al

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A new design of SMES coil for bridginginstantaneous voltage dipsT Kurusu M Ono H Ogata et al

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Recent citationsA comparative study of triaxial and uniaxialmagnetic shields made out of YBCOcoated conductorsL Weacutera et al

-

Numerical Simulation of MgB2Superconducting Magnetic EnergyStorage CoilAthanasios G Mamalis et al

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Design and Test of a SuperconductingMagnetic Energy Storage (SMES) CoilWeijia Yuan et al

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Design and modelling of a SMES coil

Weijia Yuan A M Campbell and T A CoombsEPEC Superconductivity group Engineering Department 9 JJ Thomson Avenue CambridgeCB3 0FA United Kingdom

E-mail wy215camacuk

Abstract The design of a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) coil woundby coated conductors has been presented Based on an existing model for coated conductorpancake coils this paper analysed the magnetic field and current density distribution of thecoil at two different operation temperatures 77K and 22K A comparison table of the criticalcurrents and AC losses at these two temperatures has been presented Several steps to improvethe transport current of the coil have been suggested as well

1 IntroductionSuperconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) systems have high cyclic efficiency fastresponse time and deep discharge and recharge ability as an energy storage system theseadvantages make it a good solution to solve problems of the connection of the distributedpower generation system with the main power grid Since long length of second-generationhigh temperature (2G HTS) superconductors have become commercially available it is nowpossible to wind the SMES coils by 2G HTS conductors Therefore understanding the magneticfield distribution predicting the critical current and calculating the AC losses of the coils arenecessary before the application [1ndash4]

Based on a recent numerical model [5] we simulated the coil with transport currents attwo different temperatures The critical currents of the coil has been predicted the figures ofthe magnetic field distribution of the coil have been depicted and the AC losses have beencalculated

2 The design and configuration of the coil21 The characteristic of the tapeThe properties of the superconducting tape used in this paper are based on SuperpowerrsquosSF12100 tape Table 1 gives the details of the tape After measurement we find the minimumcritical current of all samples is 201A at self field 77K From Superpowerrsquos data we can get theexpression of the critical current density with the perpendicular field (normal to the wide faceof the tape and parallel to the coil radius) at two different operation temperatures as shown inequations 1 and 2

Jc77K = J077K times B077K

B077K + |Bz| (1)

where J077K = 111times 108Am2 B077K = 012T

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Jc22K = J022K times B022K

B022K + |Bz| (2)

where J022K = 658times 108Am2 B022K = 149T

Table 1 Characteristics of Superpowerrsquos SF12100 tapes

Tape configuration Quantity

Tape width 12mmIndividual conductor thickness 01mmInsulation + epoxy thickness 005mmTotal thickness of the tape 015mmCritical current (self-field77K) 201A

22 The design of the pancake coilA single layer pancake coil wound with 100 meters of this tape has been constructed The storedenergy of the coil is determined by 1

2LI2 while L is determined by the dimension of the coiland I is mainly constrained by the maximum perpendicular field to the tapes as in equations 1and 2 By producing a comparison table we can get the design which gives the maximum storedenergy in the coil wound by a certain length of conductors the inner radius of the coil is 40mmand the outer radius is 80mm the total turns in the coil is 266

Figure 1 gives the cross-section view of the coil z-axis is the coil radial direction andperpendicular to the wide face of the tape This SMES is planed to operate at liquid nitrogentemperature level and dry cooling temperature level thus we will analyse the coil at 77K and22K individually

x

z

266

tapes

a=6mm

D=015mm

b=20mm

central axis of the coil

r=60mm

o

Figure 1 Configuration of the coil

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3 Modelling of the coilDue to the high aspect ratio of the coated conductor the standard finite element method (FEM)is difficult to apply to a pancake coil and the solution process will take a very long computationtime Some recent papers showed a way round this problem by using a new numerical model[5 6] In this paper we will retain the model assumptions in [5] Here we go through this modelbriefly

We assume the current density is distributed all over the whole cross section area of eachtape rather than only the superconducting layer In the coil there should be two regions thecritical region and sub-critical region The flux fully penetrates in the critical region the criticalcurrent density will be consistent with the local magnetic field as in equations 1 and 2 Sincethe tapes are closely packed together in the coil the flux lines can not penetrate into the tapesand hence have to be parallel to the surface of each tape This means there is no perpendicularmagnetic field in the sub-critical region The current density in each tape in the sub-criticalregion will therefore be constant and need to guarantee the transport current carried by each tapeis the same By searching for the critical boundaries which make the perpendicular magneticfield nearly zero in the sub-critical region we can get the magnetic field and current densitydistribution across the coil Figure 2 illustrates the model The critical boundaries are twosymmetric parabolae x(z) = plusmn c2minusc1

b2z2 + c1 The critical current density Jc flows in the critical

region while a less current density Jm flows in the sub-critical region

x

z

mJcJ cJ

B

B( )x z( )x zminus

2c

1c

2a

D

2b

tape

central axis of the coil

Figure 2 The magnetic field and current density distribution of the coil

We have to point out in this paper we are using fixed-division method [7] to get the solutionrather than the dynamic-division method in [5] Moreover we are using an infinitely long stackto approximate the the coil rather than the real circular coil model Calculation in [7] showsthat for this coil dimension the infinitely long stack model will only give an error less than 10for the AC losses however it can greatly save the computation time by avoiding the ellipticintegrals

4 Calculation results41 Simulation at 77K411 The critical current Ic77K First we need to calculate the critical transport current ofthis coil at 77K based on the prediction given by this model The critical region will penetrate

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into the centre of one tape of the coil at the critical current By increasing the transport currentwe can find when the critical region just penetrates into the middle of one tape Figure 3 and 4give numerical solution of the coil at the critical current In figure 4 the red lines without anynumbers represent the critical boundaries of the coil the color lines with numbers represent theflux lines We can find that the critical region penetrates into the centre tape of the coil whichmarks the critical current of the coil at 77K as 85A The critical current densities almost flowseverywhere in the centre tape The perpendicular magnetic field penetrates into the centre aswell

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

0

2

4

6

8

10

x 107

Figure 3 Current density distribution at thecritical current

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus0001

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus00

01

minus0000

5

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 4 Magnetic flux lines at the criticalcurrent

412 The solution at 80 of Ic77K For a normal operation of a SMES coil 80 of the thecritical current is a reasonable value Thus we put in a 68A transport current which is 80 ofIc77K which is 68A Then we follow the solution process in section 3 and get the figures 5 to 8We can find in figure 5 the perpendicular magnetic field is almost zero in the sub-critical regionthen increases across the tape width direction On the edge of each tape the perpendicularfield reaches the maximum The perpendicular component is larger in the centre tapes than thetopbottom tapes This is important for the SMES coil design by shielding the centre tapesfrom the magnetic field we can put in a higher transport current As shown in figure 6 the fluxlines penetrate freely in the critical region but the perpendicular component can not penetrateinto the sub-critical region Therefore by conducting the flux lines to penetrate less into the coilthe critical current will be gained Figure 7 and 8 have shown the current density distributionThe current density in the sub-critical region is much less than that in the critical region Thuswe can increase the transport current by increasing the current density in the sub-critical region

By the vortex line formula [5 6 8] the AC losses of the cross section area of the coil duringthe charging up process (ie from 0 to 68A) is 255Jm The losses during an operation cyclewill thus be twice the value as 51Jm Timing this value by the mean circumference of the coilwe can get the AC losses of the whole coil And

42 Simulation at 22KReducing the operation temperature will increase the current density and thus the stored energyBy the cryogen-free cooling method we can reach the temperature around 22K Equation 2gives the performance of the tape at 22K Again we need to calculate the critical current ofthe coil first Our model predicts that the critical current Ic22K will be 640A The operationcurrent at this temperature will hence be 512A which is 80 of Ic22K Figures 9 to 12 give the

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus02

minus015

minus01

minus005

0

005

01

015

02

Figure 5 Magnetic field distribution at 68A

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus00008 minus00008 minus00008

minus00008 minus00008minus00008

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00004 minus00004 minus00004

minus00

004

minus00004minus00004

minus00004

minus00002 minus00002 minus00002

minus00002minus000020 0

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 6 Magnetic flux lines at 68A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11x 10

7

Figure 7 Current density distribution of thecoil at 68A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

2

4

6

8

10

12x 10

7

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )

Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 8 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 68A

solution of the coil with a 512A transport current The AC losses during one operation cycle is288Jm

43 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77KHaving got the solutions at two different temperatures we can produce a comparison table ofthe performance of the coil at these two temperature When the temperature goes down from77K to 22K the critical current increases from 85A to 640A however the AC losses at theoperation current increases from 51Jm to 288Jm The AC losses increasing ratio is 565which is much larger than the critical current increasing ratio753 These are shown in table 2

5 ConclusionsThis paper presents a design which gives the maximum stored energy of a coil wound by acertain length of conductors

The solutions by the existing model analysing the coil at two different temperatures areconsistent with the model assumptions The centre tape of the coil will be penetrated completely

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus15

minus1

minus05

0

05

1

15

Figure 9 Magnetic field distribution at 512A

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus0008 minus0008 minus0008

minus0008 minus0008minus0008

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus0004

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus00

04

minus0002 minus0002

minus0002

minus0002minus0002

minus0002

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 10 Magnetic flux lines at 512A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

15

2

25

3

35

4

45

5

55

6

65x 10

8

Figure 11 Current density distribution of thecoil at 512A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

1

2

3

4

5

6

7x 10

8

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 12 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 512A

Table 2 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77K

Coil performance 77K 22K ratio of 77K to 22K

Critical current 85A 640A 753Operation current 68A 512A 753

AC losses at the operation current 51Jm 288Jm 565

first By shielding the centre tape and increasing the current density in the sub-critical regionwe can increase the transport current of the coil

By reducing the temperature from 77K to 22K the critical current of the coil increasesfrom 85A to 640A while the AC losses at 80 of the critical current during an operation cycleincreases from from 51Jm to 288Jm

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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Design and modelling of a SMES coil

Weijia Yuan A M Campbell and T A CoombsEPEC Superconductivity group Engineering Department 9 JJ Thomson Avenue CambridgeCB3 0FA United Kingdom

E-mail wy215camacuk

Abstract The design of a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) coil woundby coated conductors has been presented Based on an existing model for coated conductorpancake coils this paper analysed the magnetic field and current density distribution of thecoil at two different operation temperatures 77K and 22K A comparison table of the criticalcurrents and AC losses at these two temperatures has been presented Several steps to improvethe transport current of the coil have been suggested as well

1 IntroductionSuperconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) systems have high cyclic efficiency fastresponse time and deep discharge and recharge ability as an energy storage system theseadvantages make it a good solution to solve problems of the connection of the distributedpower generation system with the main power grid Since long length of second-generationhigh temperature (2G HTS) superconductors have become commercially available it is nowpossible to wind the SMES coils by 2G HTS conductors Therefore understanding the magneticfield distribution predicting the critical current and calculating the AC losses of the coils arenecessary before the application [1ndash4]

Based on a recent numerical model [5] we simulated the coil with transport currents attwo different temperatures The critical currents of the coil has been predicted the figures ofthe magnetic field distribution of the coil have been depicted and the AC losses have beencalculated

2 The design and configuration of the coil21 The characteristic of the tapeThe properties of the superconducting tape used in this paper are based on SuperpowerrsquosSF12100 tape Table 1 gives the details of the tape After measurement we find the minimumcritical current of all samples is 201A at self field 77K From Superpowerrsquos data we can get theexpression of the critical current density with the perpendicular field (normal to the wide faceof the tape and parallel to the coil radius) at two different operation temperatures as shown inequations 1 and 2

Jc77K = J077K times B077K

B077K + |Bz| (1)

where J077K = 111times 108Am2 B077K = 012T

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Jc22K = J022K times B022K

B022K + |Bz| (2)

where J022K = 658times 108Am2 B022K = 149T

Table 1 Characteristics of Superpowerrsquos SF12100 tapes

Tape configuration Quantity

Tape width 12mmIndividual conductor thickness 01mmInsulation + epoxy thickness 005mmTotal thickness of the tape 015mmCritical current (self-field77K) 201A

22 The design of the pancake coilA single layer pancake coil wound with 100 meters of this tape has been constructed The storedenergy of the coil is determined by 1

2LI2 while L is determined by the dimension of the coiland I is mainly constrained by the maximum perpendicular field to the tapes as in equations 1and 2 By producing a comparison table we can get the design which gives the maximum storedenergy in the coil wound by a certain length of conductors the inner radius of the coil is 40mmand the outer radius is 80mm the total turns in the coil is 266

Figure 1 gives the cross-section view of the coil z-axis is the coil radial direction andperpendicular to the wide face of the tape This SMES is planed to operate at liquid nitrogentemperature level and dry cooling temperature level thus we will analyse the coil at 77K and22K individually

x

z

266

tapes

a=6mm

D=015mm

b=20mm

central axis of the coil

r=60mm

o

Figure 1 Configuration of the coil

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3 Modelling of the coilDue to the high aspect ratio of the coated conductor the standard finite element method (FEM)is difficult to apply to a pancake coil and the solution process will take a very long computationtime Some recent papers showed a way round this problem by using a new numerical model[5 6] In this paper we will retain the model assumptions in [5] Here we go through this modelbriefly

We assume the current density is distributed all over the whole cross section area of eachtape rather than only the superconducting layer In the coil there should be two regions thecritical region and sub-critical region The flux fully penetrates in the critical region the criticalcurrent density will be consistent with the local magnetic field as in equations 1 and 2 Sincethe tapes are closely packed together in the coil the flux lines can not penetrate into the tapesand hence have to be parallel to the surface of each tape This means there is no perpendicularmagnetic field in the sub-critical region The current density in each tape in the sub-criticalregion will therefore be constant and need to guarantee the transport current carried by each tapeis the same By searching for the critical boundaries which make the perpendicular magneticfield nearly zero in the sub-critical region we can get the magnetic field and current densitydistribution across the coil Figure 2 illustrates the model The critical boundaries are twosymmetric parabolae x(z) = plusmn c2minusc1

b2z2 + c1 The critical current density Jc flows in the critical

region while a less current density Jm flows in the sub-critical region

x

z

mJcJ cJ

B

B( )x z( )x zminus

2c

1c

2a

D

2b

tape

central axis of the coil

Figure 2 The magnetic field and current density distribution of the coil

We have to point out in this paper we are using fixed-division method [7] to get the solutionrather than the dynamic-division method in [5] Moreover we are using an infinitely long stackto approximate the the coil rather than the real circular coil model Calculation in [7] showsthat for this coil dimension the infinitely long stack model will only give an error less than 10for the AC losses however it can greatly save the computation time by avoiding the ellipticintegrals

4 Calculation results41 Simulation at 77K411 The critical current Ic77K First we need to calculate the critical transport current ofthis coil at 77K based on the prediction given by this model The critical region will penetrate

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into the centre of one tape of the coil at the critical current By increasing the transport currentwe can find when the critical region just penetrates into the middle of one tape Figure 3 and 4give numerical solution of the coil at the critical current In figure 4 the red lines without anynumbers represent the critical boundaries of the coil the color lines with numbers represent theflux lines We can find that the critical region penetrates into the centre tape of the coil whichmarks the critical current of the coil at 77K as 85A The critical current densities almost flowseverywhere in the centre tape The perpendicular magnetic field penetrates into the centre aswell

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

0

2

4

6

8

10

x 107

Figure 3 Current density distribution at thecritical current

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus0001

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus00

01

minus0000

5

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 4 Magnetic flux lines at the criticalcurrent

412 The solution at 80 of Ic77K For a normal operation of a SMES coil 80 of the thecritical current is a reasonable value Thus we put in a 68A transport current which is 80 ofIc77K which is 68A Then we follow the solution process in section 3 and get the figures 5 to 8We can find in figure 5 the perpendicular magnetic field is almost zero in the sub-critical regionthen increases across the tape width direction On the edge of each tape the perpendicularfield reaches the maximum The perpendicular component is larger in the centre tapes than thetopbottom tapes This is important for the SMES coil design by shielding the centre tapesfrom the magnetic field we can put in a higher transport current As shown in figure 6 the fluxlines penetrate freely in the critical region but the perpendicular component can not penetrateinto the sub-critical region Therefore by conducting the flux lines to penetrate less into the coilthe critical current will be gained Figure 7 and 8 have shown the current density distributionThe current density in the sub-critical region is much less than that in the critical region Thuswe can increase the transport current by increasing the current density in the sub-critical region

By the vortex line formula [5 6 8] the AC losses of the cross section area of the coil duringthe charging up process (ie from 0 to 68A) is 255Jm The losses during an operation cyclewill thus be twice the value as 51Jm Timing this value by the mean circumference of the coilwe can get the AC losses of the whole coil And

42 Simulation at 22KReducing the operation temperature will increase the current density and thus the stored energyBy the cryogen-free cooling method we can reach the temperature around 22K Equation 2gives the performance of the tape at 22K Again we need to calculate the critical current ofthe coil first Our model predicts that the critical current Ic22K will be 640A The operationcurrent at this temperature will hence be 512A which is 80 of Ic22K Figures 9 to 12 give the

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus02

minus015

minus01

minus005

0

005

01

015

02

Figure 5 Magnetic field distribution at 68A

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus00008 minus00008 minus00008

minus00008 minus00008minus00008

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00004 minus00004 minus00004

minus00

004

minus00004minus00004

minus00004

minus00002 minus00002 minus00002

minus00002minus000020 0

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 6 Magnetic flux lines at 68A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11x 10

7

Figure 7 Current density distribution of thecoil at 68A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

2

4

6

8

10

12x 10

7

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )

Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 8 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 68A

solution of the coil with a 512A transport current The AC losses during one operation cycle is288Jm

43 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77KHaving got the solutions at two different temperatures we can produce a comparison table ofthe performance of the coil at these two temperature When the temperature goes down from77K to 22K the critical current increases from 85A to 640A however the AC losses at theoperation current increases from 51Jm to 288Jm The AC losses increasing ratio is 565which is much larger than the critical current increasing ratio753 These are shown in table 2

5 ConclusionsThis paper presents a design which gives the maximum stored energy of a coil wound by acertain length of conductors

The solutions by the existing model analysing the coil at two different temperatures areconsistent with the model assumptions The centre tape of the coil will be penetrated completely

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus15

minus1

minus05

0

05

1

15

Figure 9 Magnetic field distribution at 512A

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus0008 minus0008 minus0008

minus0008 minus0008minus0008

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus0004

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus00

04

minus0002 minus0002

minus0002

minus0002minus0002

minus0002

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 10 Magnetic flux lines at 512A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

15

2

25

3

35

4

45

5

55

6

65x 10

8

Figure 11 Current density distribution of thecoil at 512A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

1

2

3

4

5

6

7x 10

8

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 12 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 512A

Table 2 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77K

Coil performance 77K 22K ratio of 77K to 22K

Critical current 85A 640A 753Operation current 68A 512A 753

AC losses at the operation current 51Jm 288Jm 565

first By shielding the centre tape and increasing the current density in the sub-critical regionwe can increase the transport current of the coil

By reducing the temperature from 77K to 22K the critical current of the coil increasesfrom 85A to 640A while the AC losses at 80 of the critical current during an operation cycleincreases from from 51Jm to 288Jm

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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Jc22K = J022K times B022K

B022K + |Bz| (2)

where J022K = 658times 108Am2 B022K = 149T

Table 1 Characteristics of Superpowerrsquos SF12100 tapes

Tape configuration Quantity

Tape width 12mmIndividual conductor thickness 01mmInsulation + epoxy thickness 005mmTotal thickness of the tape 015mmCritical current (self-field77K) 201A

22 The design of the pancake coilA single layer pancake coil wound with 100 meters of this tape has been constructed The storedenergy of the coil is determined by 1

2LI2 while L is determined by the dimension of the coiland I is mainly constrained by the maximum perpendicular field to the tapes as in equations 1and 2 By producing a comparison table we can get the design which gives the maximum storedenergy in the coil wound by a certain length of conductors the inner radius of the coil is 40mmand the outer radius is 80mm the total turns in the coil is 266

Figure 1 gives the cross-section view of the coil z-axis is the coil radial direction andperpendicular to the wide face of the tape This SMES is planed to operate at liquid nitrogentemperature level and dry cooling temperature level thus we will analyse the coil at 77K and22K individually

x

z

266

tapes

a=6mm

D=015mm

b=20mm

central axis of the coil

r=60mm

o

Figure 1 Configuration of the coil

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3 Modelling of the coilDue to the high aspect ratio of the coated conductor the standard finite element method (FEM)is difficult to apply to a pancake coil and the solution process will take a very long computationtime Some recent papers showed a way round this problem by using a new numerical model[5 6] In this paper we will retain the model assumptions in [5] Here we go through this modelbriefly

We assume the current density is distributed all over the whole cross section area of eachtape rather than only the superconducting layer In the coil there should be two regions thecritical region and sub-critical region The flux fully penetrates in the critical region the criticalcurrent density will be consistent with the local magnetic field as in equations 1 and 2 Sincethe tapes are closely packed together in the coil the flux lines can not penetrate into the tapesand hence have to be parallel to the surface of each tape This means there is no perpendicularmagnetic field in the sub-critical region The current density in each tape in the sub-criticalregion will therefore be constant and need to guarantee the transport current carried by each tapeis the same By searching for the critical boundaries which make the perpendicular magneticfield nearly zero in the sub-critical region we can get the magnetic field and current densitydistribution across the coil Figure 2 illustrates the model The critical boundaries are twosymmetric parabolae x(z) = plusmn c2minusc1

b2z2 + c1 The critical current density Jc flows in the critical

region while a less current density Jm flows in the sub-critical region

x

z

mJcJ cJ

B

B( )x z( )x zminus

2c

1c

2a

D

2b

tape

central axis of the coil

Figure 2 The magnetic field and current density distribution of the coil

We have to point out in this paper we are using fixed-division method [7] to get the solutionrather than the dynamic-division method in [5] Moreover we are using an infinitely long stackto approximate the the coil rather than the real circular coil model Calculation in [7] showsthat for this coil dimension the infinitely long stack model will only give an error less than 10for the AC losses however it can greatly save the computation time by avoiding the ellipticintegrals

4 Calculation results41 Simulation at 77K411 The critical current Ic77K First we need to calculate the critical transport current ofthis coil at 77K based on the prediction given by this model The critical region will penetrate

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into the centre of one tape of the coil at the critical current By increasing the transport currentwe can find when the critical region just penetrates into the middle of one tape Figure 3 and 4give numerical solution of the coil at the critical current In figure 4 the red lines without anynumbers represent the critical boundaries of the coil the color lines with numbers represent theflux lines We can find that the critical region penetrates into the centre tape of the coil whichmarks the critical current of the coil at 77K as 85A The critical current densities almost flowseverywhere in the centre tape The perpendicular magnetic field penetrates into the centre aswell

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

0

2

4

6

8

10

x 107

Figure 3 Current density distribution at thecritical current

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus0001

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus00

01

minus0000

5

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 4 Magnetic flux lines at the criticalcurrent

412 The solution at 80 of Ic77K For a normal operation of a SMES coil 80 of the thecritical current is a reasonable value Thus we put in a 68A transport current which is 80 ofIc77K which is 68A Then we follow the solution process in section 3 and get the figures 5 to 8We can find in figure 5 the perpendicular magnetic field is almost zero in the sub-critical regionthen increases across the tape width direction On the edge of each tape the perpendicularfield reaches the maximum The perpendicular component is larger in the centre tapes than thetopbottom tapes This is important for the SMES coil design by shielding the centre tapesfrom the magnetic field we can put in a higher transport current As shown in figure 6 the fluxlines penetrate freely in the critical region but the perpendicular component can not penetrateinto the sub-critical region Therefore by conducting the flux lines to penetrate less into the coilthe critical current will be gained Figure 7 and 8 have shown the current density distributionThe current density in the sub-critical region is much less than that in the critical region Thuswe can increase the transport current by increasing the current density in the sub-critical region

By the vortex line formula [5 6 8] the AC losses of the cross section area of the coil duringthe charging up process (ie from 0 to 68A) is 255Jm The losses during an operation cyclewill thus be twice the value as 51Jm Timing this value by the mean circumference of the coilwe can get the AC losses of the whole coil And

42 Simulation at 22KReducing the operation temperature will increase the current density and thus the stored energyBy the cryogen-free cooling method we can reach the temperature around 22K Equation 2gives the performance of the tape at 22K Again we need to calculate the critical current ofthe coil first Our model predicts that the critical current Ic22K will be 640A The operationcurrent at this temperature will hence be 512A which is 80 of Ic22K Figures 9 to 12 give the

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus02

minus015

minus01

minus005

0

005

01

015

02

Figure 5 Magnetic field distribution at 68A

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus00008 minus00008 minus00008

minus00008 minus00008minus00008

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00004 minus00004 minus00004

minus00

004

minus00004minus00004

minus00004

minus00002 minus00002 minus00002

minus00002minus000020 0

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 6 Magnetic flux lines at 68A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11x 10

7

Figure 7 Current density distribution of thecoil at 68A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

2

4

6

8

10

12x 10

7

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )

Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 8 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 68A

solution of the coil with a 512A transport current The AC losses during one operation cycle is288Jm

43 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77KHaving got the solutions at two different temperatures we can produce a comparison table ofthe performance of the coil at these two temperature When the temperature goes down from77K to 22K the critical current increases from 85A to 640A however the AC losses at theoperation current increases from 51Jm to 288Jm The AC losses increasing ratio is 565which is much larger than the critical current increasing ratio753 These are shown in table 2

5 ConclusionsThis paper presents a design which gives the maximum stored energy of a coil wound by acertain length of conductors

The solutions by the existing model analysing the coil at two different temperatures areconsistent with the model assumptions The centre tape of the coil will be penetrated completely

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus15

minus1

minus05

0

05

1

15

Figure 9 Magnetic field distribution at 512A

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus0008 minus0008 minus0008

minus0008 minus0008minus0008

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus0004

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus00

04

minus0002 minus0002

minus0002

minus0002minus0002

minus0002

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 10 Magnetic flux lines at 512A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

15

2

25

3

35

4

45

5

55

6

65x 10

8

Figure 11 Current density distribution of thecoil at 512A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

1

2

3

4

5

6

7x 10

8

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 12 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 512A

Table 2 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77K

Coil performance 77K 22K ratio of 77K to 22K

Critical current 85A 640A 753Operation current 68A 512A 753

AC losses at the operation current 51Jm 288Jm 565

first By shielding the centre tape and increasing the current density in the sub-critical regionwe can increase the transport current of the coil

By reducing the temperature from 77K to 22K the critical current of the coil increasesfrom 85A to 640A while the AC losses at 80 of the critical current during an operation cycleincreases from from 51Jm to 288Jm

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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3 Modelling of the coilDue to the high aspect ratio of the coated conductor the standard finite element method (FEM)is difficult to apply to a pancake coil and the solution process will take a very long computationtime Some recent papers showed a way round this problem by using a new numerical model[5 6] In this paper we will retain the model assumptions in [5] Here we go through this modelbriefly

We assume the current density is distributed all over the whole cross section area of eachtape rather than only the superconducting layer In the coil there should be two regions thecritical region and sub-critical region The flux fully penetrates in the critical region the criticalcurrent density will be consistent with the local magnetic field as in equations 1 and 2 Sincethe tapes are closely packed together in the coil the flux lines can not penetrate into the tapesand hence have to be parallel to the surface of each tape This means there is no perpendicularmagnetic field in the sub-critical region The current density in each tape in the sub-criticalregion will therefore be constant and need to guarantee the transport current carried by each tapeis the same By searching for the critical boundaries which make the perpendicular magneticfield nearly zero in the sub-critical region we can get the magnetic field and current densitydistribution across the coil Figure 2 illustrates the model The critical boundaries are twosymmetric parabolae x(z) = plusmn c2minusc1

b2z2 + c1 The critical current density Jc flows in the critical

region while a less current density Jm flows in the sub-critical region

x

z

mJcJ cJ

B

B( )x z( )x zminus

2c

1c

2a

D

2b

tape

central axis of the coil

Figure 2 The magnetic field and current density distribution of the coil

We have to point out in this paper we are using fixed-division method [7] to get the solutionrather than the dynamic-division method in [5] Moreover we are using an infinitely long stackto approximate the the coil rather than the real circular coil model Calculation in [7] showsthat for this coil dimension the infinitely long stack model will only give an error less than 10for the AC losses however it can greatly save the computation time by avoiding the ellipticintegrals

4 Calculation results41 Simulation at 77K411 The critical current Ic77K First we need to calculate the critical transport current ofthis coil at 77K based on the prediction given by this model The critical region will penetrate

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into the centre of one tape of the coil at the critical current By increasing the transport currentwe can find when the critical region just penetrates into the middle of one tape Figure 3 and 4give numerical solution of the coil at the critical current In figure 4 the red lines without anynumbers represent the critical boundaries of the coil the color lines with numbers represent theflux lines We can find that the critical region penetrates into the centre tape of the coil whichmarks the critical current of the coil at 77K as 85A The critical current densities almost flowseverywhere in the centre tape The perpendicular magnetic field penetrates into the centre aswell

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

0

2

4

6

8

10

x 107

Figure 3 Current density distribution at thecritical current

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus0001

minus0001

minus0001 minus0001

minus00

01

minus0000

5

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

minus00005

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 4 Magnetic flux lines at the criticalcurrent

412 The solution at 80 of Ic77K For a normal operation of a SMES coil 80 of the thecritical current is a reasonable value Thus we put in a 68A transport current which is 80 ofIc77K which is 68A Then we follow the solution process in section 3 and get the figures 5 to 8We can find in figure 5 the perpendicular magnetic field is almost zero in the sub-critical regionthen increases across the tape width direction On the edge of each tape the perpendicularfield reaches the maximum The perpendicular component is larger in the centre tapes than thetopbottom tapes This is important for the SMES coil design by shielding the centre tapesfrom the magnetic field we can put in a higher transport current As shown in figure 6 the fluxlines penetrate freely in the critical region but the perpendicular component can not penetrateinto the sub-critical region Therefore by conducting the flux lines to penetrate less into the coilthe critical current will be gained Figure 7 and 8 have shown the current density distributionThe current density in the sub-critical region is much less than that in the critical region Thuswe can increase the transport current by increasing the current density in the sub-critical region

By the vortex line formula [5 6 8] the AC losses of the cross section area of the coil duringthe charging up process (ie from 0 to 68A) is 255Jm The losses during an operation cyclewill thus be twice the value as 51Jm Timing this value by the mean circumference of the coilwe can get the AC losses of the whole coil And

42 Simulation at 22KReducing the operation temperature will increase the current density and thus the stored energyBy the cryogen-free cooling method we can reach the temperature around 22K Equation 2gives the performance of the tape at 22K Again we need to calculate the critical current ofthe coil first Our model predicts that the critical current Ic22K will be 640A The operationcurrent at this temperature will hence be 512A which is 80 of Ic22K Figures 9 to 12 give the

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus02

minus015

minus01

minus005

0

005

01

015

02

Figure 5 Magnetic field distribution at 68A

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00018 minus00018 minus00018

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00016 minus00016 minus00016

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00014 minus00014 minus00014

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus00012 minus00012 minus00012

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus0001 minus0001 minus0001

minus00008 minus00008 minus00008

minus00008 minus00008minus00008

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00006 minus00006minus00006

minus00004 minus00004 minus00004

minus00

004

minus00004minus00004

minus00004

minus00002 minus00002 minus00002

minus00002minus000020 0

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 6 Magnetic flux lines at 68A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11x 10

7

Figure 7 Current density distribution of thecoil at 68A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

2

4

6

8

10

12x 10

7

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )

Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 8 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 68A

solution of the coil with a 512A transport current The AC losses during one operation cycle is288Jm

43 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77KHaving got the solutions at two different temperatures we can produce a comparison table ofthe performance of the coil at these two temperature When the temperature goes down from77K to 22K the critical current increases from 85A to 640A however the AC losses at theoperation current increases from 51Jm to 288Jm The AC losses increasing ratio is 565which is much larger than the critical current increasing ratio753 These are shown in table 2

5 ConclusionsThis paper presents a design which gives the maximum stored energy of a coil wound by acertain length of conductors

The solutions by the existing model analysing the coil at two different temperatures areconsistent with the model assumptions The centre tape of the coil will be penetrated completely

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus15

minus1

minus05

0

05

1

15

Figure 9 Magnetic field distribution at 512A

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0014

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus0012 minus0012 minus0012

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus001 minus001 minus001

minus0008 minus0008 minus0008

minus0008 minus0008minus0008

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0006 minus0006minus0006

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus0004

minus0004

minus0004 minus0004

minus00

04

minus0002 minus0002

minus0002

minus0002minus0002

minus0002

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Magnetic flux lines in the coil (Vsm)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

Figure 10 Magnetic flux lines at 512A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

1

15

2

25

3

35

4

45

5

55

6

65x 10

8

Figure 11 Current density distribution of thecoil at 512A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

1

2

3

4

5

6

7x 10

8

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 12 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 512A

Table 2 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77K

Coil performance 77K 22K ratio of 77K to 22K

Critical current 85A 640A 753Operation current 68A 512A 753

AC losses at the operation current 51Jm 288Jm 565

first By shielding the centre tape and increasing the current density in the sub-critical regionwe can increase the transport current of the coil

By reducing the temperature from 77K to 22K the critical current of the coil increasesfrom 85A to 640A while the AC losses at 80 of the critical current during an operation cycleincreases from from 51Jm to 288Jm

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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into the centre of one tape of the coil at the critical current By increasing the transport currentwe can find when the critical region just penetrates into the middle of one tape Figure 3 and 4give numerical solution of the coil at the critical current In figure 4 the red lines without anynumbers represent the critical boundaries of the coil the color lines with numbers represent theflux lines We can find that the critical region penetrates into the centre tape of the coil whichmarks the critical current of the coil at 77K as 85A The critical current densities almost flowseverywhere in the centre tape The perpendicular magnetic field penetrates into the centre aswell

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

0

2

4

6

8

10

x 107

Figure 3 Current density distribution at thecritical current

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus00025

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus0002 minus0002minus0002

minus00015 minus00015minus00015

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m)

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minus5 0 5

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0

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Figure 4 Magnetic flux lines at the criticalcurrent

412 The solution at 80 of Ic77K For a normal operation of a SMES coil 80 of the thecritical current is a reasonable value Thus we put in a 68A transport current which is 80 ofIc77K which is 68A Then we follow the solution process in section 3 and get the figures 5 to 8We can find in figure 5 the perpendicular magnetic field is almost zero in the sub-critical regionthen increases across the tape width direction On the edge of each tape the perpendicularfield reaches the maximum The perpendicular component is larger in the centre tapes than thetopbottom tapes This is important for the SMES coil design by shielding the centre tapesfrom the magnetic field we can put in a higher transport current As shown in figure 6 the fluxlines penetrate freely in the critical region but the perpendicular component can not penetrateinto the sub-critical region Therefore by conducting the flux lines to penetrate less into the coilthe critical current will be gained Figure 7 and 8 have shown the current density distributionThe current density in the sub-critical region is much less than that in the critical region Thuswe can increase the transport current by increasing the current density in the sub-critical region

By the vortex line formula [5 6 8] the AC losses of the cross section area of the coil duringthe charging up process (ie from 0 to 68A) is 255Jm The losses during an operation cyclewill thus be twice the value as 51Jm Timing this value by the mean circumference of the coilwe can get the AC losses of the whole coil And

42 Simulation at 22KReducing the operation temperature will increase the current density and thus the stored energyBy the cryogen-free cooling method we can reach the temperature around 22K Equation 2gives the performance of the tape at 22K Again we need to calculate the critical current ofthe coil first Our model predicts that the critical current Ic22K will be 640A The operationcurrent at this temperature will hence be 512A which is 80 of Ic22K Figures 9 to 12 give the

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

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0

5

10

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0

005

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02

Figure 5 Magnetic field distribution at 68A

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004

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m)

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minus5 0 5

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Figure 6 Magnetic flux lines at 68A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

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0

5

10

15

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

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Figure 7 Current density distribution of thecoil at 68A

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2

4

6

8

10

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7

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )

Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 8 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 68A

solution of the coil with a 512A transport current The AC losses during one operation cycle is288Jm

43 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77KHaving got the solutions at two different temperatures we can produce a comparison table ofthe performance of the coil at these two temperature When the temperature goes down from77K to 22K the critical current increases from 85A to 640A however the AC losses at theoperation current increases from 51Jm to 288Jm The AC losses increasing ratio is 565which is much larger than the critical current increasing ratio753 These are shown in table 2

5 ConclusionsThis paper presents a design which gives the maximum stored energy of a coil wound by acertain length of conductors

The solutions by the existing model analysing the coil at two different temperatures areconsistent with the model assumptions The centre tape of the coil will be penetrated completely

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

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0

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0

05

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Figure 9 Magnetic field distribution at 512A

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m)

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minus5 0 5

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Figure 10 Magnetic flux lines at 512A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

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0

5

10

15

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15

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25

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35

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45

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55

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Figure 11 Current density distribution of thecoil at 512A

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1

2

3

4

5

6

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8

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 12 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 512A

Table 2 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77K

Coil performance 77K 22K ratio of 77K to 22K

Critical current 85A 640A 753Operation current 68A 512A 753

AC losses at the operation current 51Jm 288Jm 565

first By shielding the centre tape and increasing the current density in the sub-critical regionwe can increase the transport current of the coil

By reducing the temperature from 77K to 22K the critical current of the coil increasesfrom 85A to 640A while the AC losses at 80 of the critical current during an operation cycleincreases from from 51Jm to 288Jm

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus02

minus015

minus01

minus005

0

005

01

015

02

Figure 5 Magnetic field distribution at 68A

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004

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m)

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minus5 0 5

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0

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Figure 6 Magnetic flux lines at 68A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

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5

10

15

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

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7

Figure 7 Current density distribution of thecoil at 68A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

2

4

6

8

10

12x 10

7

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )

Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 8 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 68A

solution of the coil with a 512A transport current The AC losses during one operation cycle is288Jm

43 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77KHaving got the solutions at two different temperatures we can produce a comparison table ofthe performance of the coil at these two temperature When the temperature goes down from77K to 22K the critical current increases from 85A to 640A however the AC losses at theoperation current increases from 51Jm to 288Jm The AC losses increasing ratio is 565which is much larger than the critical current increasing ratio753 These are shown in table 2

5 ConclusionsThis paper presents a design which gives the maximum stored energy of a coil wound by acertain length of conductors

The solutions by the existing model analysing the coil at two different temperatures areconsistent with the model assumptions The centre tape of the coil will be penetrated completely

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus15

minus1

minus05

0

05

1

15

Figure 9 Magnetic field distribution at 512A

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m)

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minus5 0 5

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Figure 10 Magnetic flux lines at 512A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

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minus10

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0

5

10

15

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15

2

25

3

35

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55

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8

Figure 11 Current density distribution of thecoil at 512A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

1

2

3

4

5

6

7x 10

8

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 12 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 512A

Table 2 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77K

Coil performance 77K 22K ratio of 77K to 22K

Critical current 85A 640A 753Operation current 68A 512A 753

AC losses at the operation current 51Jm 288Jm 565

first By shielding the centre tape and increasing the current density in the sub-critical regionwe can increase the transport current of the coil

By reducing the temperature from 77K to 22K the critical current of the coil increasesfrom 85A to 640A while the AC losses at 80 of the critical current during an operation cycleincreases from from 51Jm to 288Jm

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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x (mm)

z (m

m)

Bz in the coil (T)

minus5 0 5

minus15

minus10

minus5

0

5

10

15

minus15

minus1

minus05

0

05

1

15

Figure 9 Magnetic field distribution at 512A

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m)

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minus5 0 5

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Figure 10 Magnetic flux lines at 512A

x (mm)

z (m

m)

Jy of the coil (Am 2)

minus5 0 5

minus15

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0

5

10

15

1

15

2

25

3

35

4

45

5

55

6

65x 10

8

Figure 11 Current density distribution of thecoil at 512A

minus6 minus4 minus2 0 2 4 60

1

2

3

4

5

6

7x 10

8

x (mm)

Jy (

Am

2 )Jy at different tapes

z=0z=05bz=b

Figure 12 Current density distribution atdifferent tapes at 512A

Table 2 Comparison of the coil at 22K and 77K

Coil performance 77K 22K ratio of 77K to 22K

Critical current 85A 640A 753Operation current 68A 512A 753

AC losses at the operation current 51Jm 288Jm 565

first By shielding the centre tape and increasing the current density in the sub-critical regionwe can increase the transport current of the coil

By reducing the temperature from 77K to 22K the critical current of the coil increasesfrom 85A to 640A while the AC losses at 80 of the critical current during an operation cycleincreases from from 51Jm to 288Jm

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Mark Husband from Rolls Royce for his great help and support through thiswork

References[1] Brambilla R Grilli F Nguyen D N Martini L and Sirois F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22

075018 (10pp) URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075018

[2] Grilli F and Ashworth S P 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 794ndash799 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-204820794

[3] Souc J Pardo E Vojenciak M and Gomory F 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 015006 (11pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822015006

[4] Clem J R 2008 Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 77 134506 (pages 7) URLhttplinkapsorgabstractPRBv77e134506

[5] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A 2009 Superconductor Science and Technology 22 075028 (12pp)URL httpstacksioporg0953-204822075028

[6] Clem J R Claassen J H and Mawatari Y 2007 Superconductor Science and Technology 20 1130ndash1139 URLhttpstacksioporg0953-2048201130

[7] Yuan W Campbell A M and Coombs T A Unpublished[8] Claassen J H 2006 Applied Physics Letters 88 122512 (pages 3) URL

httplinkaiporglinkAPL881225121

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