Hot-Spot Modeling of REBCO NI Pancake Coil: Analytical and Experimental Approaches
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Author(s)
Lee, Wooseung
Park, Dongkeun
Choi, Yoonhyuck
Li, Yi
Bascuana, Juan
Iwasa,Yukikazu
Date Issued
December 2020
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Publisher
IEEE
Abstract
The No-Insulation (NI)winding provides intrinsic bypassing current paths that enable self-protection fromoverheating. The self-protection of the NI coil is one of the most promising protection techniques for the high field high-temperature superconductor (HTS) magnet applications. Since the additional paths are valid for an HTS magnet with a thinner matrix, the self-protection mechanism is applicable even for the higher current density magnet with reduced matrix thickness inside the HTS tape. However, reducing the matrix can cause damage to the magnet by producing excessive heat during the quench. This research introduces a new modeling method to investigate the hot-spot characteristics in the REBCO NI pancake coil. Themodel is also validated with a sample NI HTS coil experiment result. Radial direction Normal Zone Propagation (NZP) velocity of the sample coil is estimated based on the suggested model. The calculated radial direction NZP velocity is applied to calculate the center field drop of the NI HTS coil, and the result is well-matched with the experiment result.We also introduce one example of the model applications. The maximum current density that will not exceed a given reference temperature in the adiabatic cooling condition is estimated using the model.
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Submitted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2021.3070240
