Structure and Performance Characteristics of Saturated Iron-core Superconducting Fault Current Limiter

作者：Xiaoye Niu, Zhili Chen, Haizhen Wang, Zhifu Chen, Lifeng Zhang, Guojun Niu, Hui Hong, Ying Xin · 发表于：Journal of International Council on Electrical Engineering · 年份：2014 · DOI：10.5370/jicee.2014.4.2.146 · 被引用次数：10 · 研究领域：HVDC Systems and Fault Protection、High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems、Power Systems and Technologies

Superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) is a kind of short-circuit current limiting device for power grid. It's a new application of superconducting technology on power equipments. Saturated Iron-core Superconducting fault current limiter (SISFCL) is one of many types of SFCL. It takes the advantage that no quenching occurs in superconducting wires during fault current limiting process. The immediately reacting and fast recovering are also its main characteristics. The structure and function of SISFCL is similar to that of traditional transformer and current limiting reactor respectively. Based on mature technologies on design and manufacture of iron core and windings of transformers, SISFCL could be made at the same voltage level as traditional transformers. But there are also significant differences between them. SISFCL will offer an effective solution to limit short-circuit current in future HV or EHV power systems because of its peculiar structures and properties. In this paper, we introduce the structure and characteristics of the SISFCL developed by Innopower. It may help readers to understand SISFCL and its enormous application value for power grids.