Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Safety and protection of systems and devices – Superconductor protective circuits
Patent
1986-12-05
1987-10-13
Beha, Jr., William H.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Safety and protection of systems and devices
Superconductor protective circuits
323355, 336DIG1, 361 58, H02H 308
Patent
active
047002573
ABSTRACT:
An AC current limiter for a power transport line including an overload circuit-breaker member (6), the limiter comprising a transformer having a primary winding (6A) connected in series between the power supply circuit (R) and the load circuit (U) and one or more secondary windings (9) of superconductor material contained in a cryogenic enclosure (11) and short-circuited on themselves, the leakage reactance of the transformer as seen from the primary winding being low, and the resistance of the, or each, secondary winding when in the non-superconducting state and as seen from the primary being much greater than the nominal impedance of the transformer. The current limiter includes the improvement whereby the, or each, secondary winding of the transformer comprises an active winding (12) in association with a set of auxiliary windings (13, 14, 15, 16), said set of auxiliary windings being constituted by an even number of series-connected auxiliary windings wound in opposite directions, with the total number of turns in one direction being equal to the total number of turns in the opposite direction, and with the thermal capacity of the secondary winding as a whole being sufficiently high to limit the expansion thereof to a value which remains small during the time it takes said circuit-breaking member to operate.
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Alsthom
Beha Jr. William H.
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