TY - JOUR
T1 - Status of the european union project FASTGRID
AU - Tixador, Pascal
AU - Bauer, Markus
AU - Bruzek, Christian Eric
AU - Calleja, Albert
AU - Deutscher, Guy
AU - Dutoit, Bertrand
AU - Gomory, Fedor
AU - Martini, Luciano
AU - Noe, Mathias
AU - Obradors, Xavier
AU - Pekarcikova, Marcela
AU - Sirois, Frederic
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - High voltage direct current super-grids are one attractive solution for the transmission of bulk power of renewable electricity over long distances. Their protection is still an issue and superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCL) offer attractive perspectives. However, the actual superconducting tapes are not yet properly designed for operation at high voltages (>100 kV): The electric field developed during the current limitation is still too low (approximately 50 V/m for 50 ms) and the limiter requires too long lengths of tape. The European project FASTGRID aims at improving the properties of the REBCO tapes to enhance significantly (by 2-3 times) the electric field limit and so the economical SCFCL attractiveness. We use advanced THEVA tapes. Substantial improvements are also planned on the stabilizer (shunt) layer. Several shunt ways are under investigations. Other improvement on the tape properties will be carried out, namely the increase of the normal zone propagation velocity by at least one order of magnitude, with the help of the innovative current flow diverter architecture. The optimized conductor will be used in a SCFCL module (1.5 kA-50 kV) tested at 65 K. We will monitor the temperature along the conductor using an attached optical fibre. FASTGRID will also develop innovative tapes based on sapphire substrate, which can tolerate very high electric fields, in the range of kilovolts per meter. Validated on the laboratory scale, this game-changing technology needs to be implemented at long lengths with an industrial process. We will provide an overview of the project and its first results.
AB - High voltage direct current super-grids are one attractive solution for the transmission of bulk power of renewable electricity over long distances. Their protection is still an issue and superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCL) offer attractive perspectives. However, the actual superconducting tapes are not yet properly designed for operation at high voltages (>100 kV): The electric field developed during the current limitation is still too low (approximately 50 V/m for 50 ms) and the limiter requires too long lengths of tape. The European project FASTGRID aims at improving the properties of the REBCO tapes to enhance significantly (by 2-3 times) the electric field limit and so the economical SCFCL attractiveness. We use advanced THEVA tapes. Substantial improvements are also planned on the stabilizer (shunt) layer. Several shunt ways are under investigations. Other improvement on the tape properties will be carried out, namely the increase of the normal zone propagation velocity by at least one order of magnitude, with the help of the innovative current flow diverter architecture. The optimized conductor will be used in a SCFCL module (1.5 kA-50 kV) tested at 65 K. We will monitor the temperature along the conductor using an attached optical fibre. FASTGRID will also develop innovative tapes based on sapphire substrate, which can tolerate very high electric fields, in the range of kilovolts per meter. Validated on the laboratory scale, this game-changing technology needs to be implemented at long lengths with an industrial process. We will provide an overview of the project and its first results.
KW - HVdc transmission
KW - High-temperature superconductors
KW - power system protection
KW - superconducting devices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065401829&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2019.2908586
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2019.2908586
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AN - SCOPUS:85065401829
SN - 1051-8223
VL - 29
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
IS - 5
M1 - 8678466
ER -