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Normal zone propagating characteristics and stability criterion of the superconducting field windings for a test rotor

✍ Scribed by K. Kaiho; H. Nomura; H. Higuchi; I. Ishii; H. Tateishi; K. Arai; T. Onishi; M. Kumagai; T. Imura


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
480 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0011-2275

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✦ Synopsis


An outline is given of a constructed model rotor and the preliminary experimental results are described. The model rotor was excited up to a rated current of 2000 A without training. The normal zone propagating velocities were measured in a rotating cryostat and were also calculated using the estimated heat transfer coefficients. By considering the change in the voltage drops after the normal transition, minimum burn-out currents were found. If the operating current is smaller than this current, the conductor will not burn out even after the normal transition. This minimum burn-out current could be used as a safety current criterion.