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Modelling of a High-Temperature Superconductor HVDC Cable Under Transient Conditions

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The carbon neutrality goal of achieving net-zero by 2050 has sparked significant interest in offshore wind farms. With the offshore wind farms installed > 100 km away fro...View more

Abstract:

The carbon neutrality goal of achieving net-zero by 2050 has sparked significant interest in offshore wind farms. With the offshore wind farms installed > 100 km away from the seashore, underground power transmission infrastructure is a necessity. Considering the power cable length and low net effective losses, a high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) system is chosen for this study. Also being lossless in DC operation, the HVDC cables are considered to be made out of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) material. But, unlike copper/aluminium, HTS material has a sharp transient behaviour as a function of the operating current, temperature and field. Thus, under transient conditions, as the fault current ramps up, this can lead to an increase in the HTS operating temperature, causing either degradation or permanent damage to the HVDC cable. In this paper, an HTS HVDC cable model has been developed in MATLAB/Simscape coupling both electrical and thermal models. For this study, a 100 km long coaxial 100 kV/1 GW DC HTS power cable is considered and modelled both as a lumped element and distributed element model with 100 elements to compare and evaluate the cable parameters along the length. The parameters include temperature distribution, resistance, critical current, and losses at different spots throughout the length of the cable. To simulate the transient condition, a line-to-ground (LG) fault is considered and the current distribution between the copper former and HTS tapes is studied. Using this cable model, the maximum temperature of the HTS and coolant both in the superconducting state and transient state are evaluated and presented. In comparison to the distributed model, the lumped model displayed different thermal and electrical values.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity ( Volume: 33, Issue: 5, August 2023)
Article Sequence Number: 5400805
Date of Publication: 02 March 2023

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I. Introduction

The environmental concern has shifted energy generation from non-renewable to renewable energy to reduce carbon emissions to net zero. Energy generation especially from offshore wind farms (OWF) has increased. The present global generation from offshore wind farms is around 40 GW and is projected to be 640 GW by 2050. Nowadays offshore wind farms are constructed upto 100 km away from the shore. DC cables are more suitable to transfer power than AC cables due to the low power loss and no limitation on the length of the cable [1], [2].

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