Design and AC Loss Analysis of a 22.9 kV/50 MVA Class Triaxial HTS Power Cable

Recently, triaxial high temperature superconducting (HTS) power cables have become a mainstream design in the development of HTS cables because of several advantages, such as the reduced amount of HTS wire, low leakage fields, and compactness, when compared with other types of HTS cable. Unlike the AC loss from other types of HTS cable, the AC loss from the triaxial HTS cable is influenced by the magnetic fields of other phases, as the triaxial HTS cable does not have a shield layer between the phase conductors. The authors have designed a 22.9 kV/50 MVA class triaxial HTS power cable. The AC loss and the magnetic characteristics of the triaxial HTS power cable are analyzed using the Comsol program, a commercial finite element method. To confirm the characteristics of the triaxial HTS power cable by wire type, the characteristics of two wire types were applied to the FEM model.