{"title":"High-Current Winding for SMES Cable and Its System Configuration for Photovoltaic Power Transmission","authors":"Kohei Higashikawa;Tomoya Miyazaki;Tatsuya Tabuchi;Masaki Asano;Sho Moroi;Takanobu Kiss;Kei Shiohara;Michio Sato;S. M. Muyeen","doi":"10.1109/TASC.2025.3551674","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The use of electricity generated from renewable energy sources is essential for a carbon-neutral society, and countermeasures against their severe output power fluctuations are key to this. In our previous studies, we proposed a superconducting cable with energy storage function (SMES cable) as such a countermeasure and successfully demonstrated its function using a small model cable (with a current capacity of the order of 100 A) and a simple circuit model (with photovoltaic assumed by a voltage source) based on a hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS). In this study, a kA-class model cable was fabricated by parallel winding of a REBCO coated conductor, and a HILS-based experiment showed that the cable could be regarded just as an inductance with negligible loss. Furthermore, it was found that the application of SMES cable to photovoltaic power transmission could maximize the output power from the photovoltaic while reducing its fluctuation by appropriately combining a DC-DC converter and the current-voltage level of the photovoltaic array.","PeriodicalId":13104,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity","volume":"35 5","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10930536/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The use of electricity generated from renewable energy sources is essential for a carbon-neutral society, and countermeasures against their severe output power fluctuations are key to this. In our previous studies, we proposed a superconducting cable with energy storage function (SMES cable) as such a countermeasure and successfully demonstrated its function using a small model cable (with a current capacity of the order of 100 A) and a simple circuit model (with photovoltaic assumed by a voltage source) based on a hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS). In this study, a kA-class model cable was fabricated by parallel winding of a REBCO coated conductor, and a HILS-based experiment showed that the cable could be regarded just as an inductance with negligible loss. Furthermore, it was found that the application of SMES cable to photovoltaic power transmission could maximize the output power from the photovoltaic while reducing its fluctuation by appropriately combining a DC-DC converter and the current-voltage level of the photovoltaic array.
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IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (TAS) contains articles on the applications of superconductivity and other relevant technology. Electronic applications include analog and digital circuits employing thin films and active devices such as Josephson junctions. Large scale applications include magnets for power applications such as motors and generators, for magnetic resonance, for accelerators, and cable applications such as power transmission.