2002 Volume 37 Issue 3 Pages 98-105
Optimal SMES system concepts were developed for power system stabilization (available capacity of 54MJ, available output power of 100MW) and load fluctuation compensation or frequency regulation (available capacity of 1, 800MJ, available output power of 100MW) applications. The system details designs mainly composed of the superconducting coil, which aimed to achieve a cost decrease for each usage, based on four different schemes. The details of the designs and cost-reduction efforts were reviewed. Furthermore, to verify the validity of the development concept and the performance based on the detailed design result of the superconductor, five kinds of short superconductors (about 10m) selected respectively from among four kinds of superconductors were made for trial purposes. The performance of these prototypes was analyzed, including the measurement of current-carrying characteristics, stability and AC loss. Especially, the AC loss characteristic was measured with two devices: “superconductor coupling loss measurement device” of Kagoshima University; and “actual AC loss measurement device”, equipment was that built to enable the measurement and assessment of AC loss under conditions closely approximating the actual magnetic fields.
