Investigation of the effect of striated strands on the AC losses of 2G Roebel cables
- 27 January 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Superconductor Science and Technology
Abstract
The assembly of meander shaped coated conductor tapes by the Roebel technique is a promising way to manufacture high current cables with low ac losses. The application of longitudinal striations to the single strands can be an option to create a filament structure for further possible reduction of the ac losses. Due to the complex Roebel strand geometry, it was important to identify a reliable technique to produce such structures using a picosecond-infrared (IR) laser for the groove etching process. We analyzed the effects of the filament structure on the magnetization ac loss behavior by comparing the losses of a cable with striated strands with those of a reference one with non-striated strands. The ac loss reduction in the Roebel cable with striated strands was confirmed. The measured magnetization loss of the 125 mm striated single strand is five times lower than that of the non-striated one. In the case of the cable sample the loss reduced by a factor of three, but not in the whole interval of amplitudes of the applied magnetic field. We also compared the results with those for a cable with insulated striated strands: they seem to indicate that the coupling currents occur mostly between the filaments, not between the strands.Keywords
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