A novel real-time simulation method of the utility power network including the HTS power cable

Abstract

High temperature superconducting (HTS) power cable, characterized by its large transmission capacity in compact dimension, small transmission loss, no leakage of electro-magnetic field to the outside of the cable and small impedance. HTS technology can be useful to overcome this program. Recently, according to the advanced HTS technology, the power application is being researched well. However, several kinds of simulation, which analyze the transient phenomena of HTS power cable itself, are basically required before installation according as the impedance level of HTS power cable is dramatically changed in case of quench at fault condition.In this paper, the authors propose RTDS simulation method, which puts a real miniaturized HTS power cable into the imaginary utility power grid system simulated in RTDS. For the simulation analysis, the miniaturized HTS power cable was actually manufactured, and the transient phenomenon of the miniaturized HTS power cable model core was analyzed in the simulated utility power grid.