Study of Magnetic Shielding of Ferromagnetic Cores, With Solenoidal HTS Tape Screens, for SFCL Applications

Superconducting Fault Current Limiters (SFCL) are reliable and low environmental impact protection devices, easily adaptable within the distribution networks of distributed generation systems. An Inductive-resistive (IR) SFCL, previously presented by authors, is currently under development. The indu...

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Main Authors: Alfredo Alvarez, Belen Rivera, Belen Perez, Pilar Suarez
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description Superconducting Fault Current Limiters (SFCL) are reliable and low environmental impact protection devices, easily adaptable within the distribution networks of distributed generation systems. An Inductive-resistive (IR) SFCL, previously presented by authors, is currently under development. The inductive stage of this IR-SFCL has a magnetic screen to prevent the magnetic field from affecting the resistive stage during normal operation, among other functions. Usually, the magnetic screens are made of superconducting bulk, and have low reliability under thermal cycles, since they are brittle and expensive. To solve this problem, screens built from commercial high temperature superconducting (HTS) tape were studied and the best configuration for use in the IR-SFCL, chosen. This was the superconducting multilayer solenoidal screen. This work studies the behaviour of the basic IR-SFCL ferromagnetic core, when it is shielded by the chosen superconducting multilayer solenoidal screen. This paper shows the magnetic conditions to prevent or permit the magnetization of the core, which is necessary information to size the inductive stage of the new IR-SFCL prototype. Finally, a brief study of the shielding mechanisms of the new screen was carried out. The result of the tests proves that the diamagnetism of the tape superconducting materials is almost totally responsible for the magnetic shielding.
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spelling doaj-art-12ddeb010c7044d0b25fe2b1bccd67232025-08-20T03:15:27ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113376493765510.1109/ACCESS.2025.354557510902385Study of Magnetic Shielding of Ferromagnetic Cores, With Solenoidal HTS Tape Screens, for SFCL ApplicationsAlfredo Alvarez0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9552-1535Belen Rivera1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3484-0131Belen Perez2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0190-1524Pilar Suarez3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3752-6228Laboratorio de Aplicaciones Eléctricas de Superconductores (Applied Superconductivity Laboratory), Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, SpainLaboratorio de Aplicaciones Eléctricas de Superconductores (Applied Superconductivity Laboratory), Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, SpainLaboratorio de Aplicaciones Eléctricas de Superconductores (Applied Superconductivity Laboratory), Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, SpainLaboratorio de Aplicaciones Eléctricas de Superconductores (Applied Superconductivity Laboratory), Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, SpainSuperconducting Fault Current Limiters (SFCL) are reliable and low environmental impact protection devices, easily adaptable within the distribution networks of distributed generation systems. An Inductive-resistive (IR) SFCL, previously presented by authors, is currently under development. The inductive stage of this IR-SFCL has a magnetic screen to prevent the magnetic field from affecting the resistive stage during normal operation, among other functions. Usually, the magnetic screens are made of superconducting bulk, and have low reliability under thermal cycles, since they are brittle and expensive. To solve this problem, screens built from commercial high temperature superconducting (HTS) tape were studied and the best configuration for use in the IR-SFCL, chosen. This was the superconducting multilayer solenoidal screen. This work studies the behaviour of the basic IR-SFCL ferromagnetic core, when it is shielded by the chosen superconducting multilayer solenoidal screen. This paper shows the magnetic conditions to prevent or permit the magnetization of the core, which is necessary information to size the inductive stage of the new IR-SFCL prototype. Finally, a brief study of the shielding mechanisms of the new screen was carried out. The result of the tests proves that the diamagnetism of the tape superconducting materials is almost totally responsible for the magnetic shielding.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10902385/HTS tapeinductive SFCLmagnetic shielding
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inductive SFCL
magnetic shielding
title Study of Magnetic Shielding of Ferromagnetic Cores, With Solenoidal HTS Tape Screens, for SFCL Applications
title_full Study of Magnetic Shielding of Ferromagnetic Cores, With Solenoidal HTS Tape Screens, for SFCL Applications
title_fullStr Study of Magnetic Shielding of Ferromagnetic Cores, With Solenoidal HTS Tape Screens, for SFCL Applications
title_full_unstemmed Study of Magnetic Shielding of Ferromagnetic Cores, With Solenoidal HTS Tape Screens, for SFCL Applications
title_short Study of Magnetic Shielding of Ferromagnetic Cores, With Solenoidal HTS Tape Screens, for SFCL Applications
title_sort study of magnetic shielding of ferromagnetic cores with solenoidal hts tape screens for sfcl applications
topic HTS tape
inductive SFCL
magnetic shielding
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