Bridge-type Fault Current Limiter Research Articles

Recent advances of HTS power application research at IEE

Recent advances of high temperature superconductors (HTS) for power applications in the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE), Chinese academy of Sciences are presented. A 75 meter, 10.5 kV/1.5 kA three phase HTS transmission cable has been successfully demonstrated in a live distribution grid in northwest China. A 10.5 kV/200A bridge-type fault current limiter (FCL) prototype based on Bi-2223 tapes is being tested in a Hunan power plant since August 2005. A 400V/16V/26 kVA three phase HTS transformer was designed, built and tested, and the on site system installation of a 10.5 kV/400V/630 kVA HTS transformer will be finished at Tebian Electric Ltd. soon. In addition, the progress of design and test of SMES is also given.

DC reactor effect on bridge type superconducting fault current limiter during load increasing

In high power applications, the fault current limiter has been discussed for many years because of some limitations of conventional circuit breakers. Many types of fault current limiter have already been introduced in papers. In this work, a simple bridge-type fault current limiter has been designed and constructed. The performances of the limiter have been tested successfully. In the bridge-type current limiter, a DC reactor appears in the line when the connected load is increasing. This causes a voltage drop across the load terminal during load changing. The DC reactor effect of the current limiter has been studied. Some experimental results regarding the reactor effect of the limiter have been considered and compared with the results obtained from computer simulation.