Abstract
Recent progress of long YBCO coated conductors is remarkable and coils wound of YBCO conductors will be developed in near future. YBCO coated conductors that are made by deposition of thin YBCO film on high resistance metal substrates such as Hastelloy and nickel tapes are highly resistive when they are quenched. Therefore, measures for stabilization and quench protection are more important for YBCO conductors than for Bi/Ag sheathed tapes which have low resistive silver matrix. Though HTS conductors working at liquid nitrogen temperature are hard to be quenched, the conductors still have possibilities of quenches due to local defects for example. We studied necessary amount of copper stabilizer to protect the YBCO conductors in coils from damages caused by hot spots due to quenches. In the work we numerically calculated maximum hot spot temperature of a YBCO conductor quenched by a local disturbance during the sequence of quench detection and energy dump. In the analysis, necessary amounts of copper to keep the maximum hot spot temperature below a threshold are calculated. Based on the analysis, optimum conductor design is discussed to obtain safe and high current density conductors.
