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Title: High voltage fault current limiter having immersed phase coils

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1129381

A fault current limiter including: a ferromagnetic circuit formed from a ferromagnetic material and including at least a first limb, and a second limb; a saturation mechanism surrounding a limb for magnetically saturating the ferromagnetic material; a phase coil wound around a second limb; a dielectric fluid surrounding the phase coil; a gaseous atmosphere surrounding the saturation mechanism.

Research Organization:
Applied Superconductor Pty Ltd, Wollongong, NSW (Australia)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Assignee:
Applied Superconductor Pty Ltd (Wollongong, AU)
Patent Number(s):
8,705,215
Application Number:
12/740,239
OSTI ID:
1129381
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2008 Nov 27
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (14)

Magnetic switch structure and method employing superconductive material patent August 1993
Superconductor current-limiting apparatus patent October 1993
Apparatus and method for the rapid discharge of a superconducting magnet coil patent December 1998
Superconducting current limiting device by introducing the air gap in the magnetic core patent July 1999
Superconducting magnets and power supplies for superconducting devices patent October 1999
Method and apparatus to trigger superconductors in current limiting devices patent October 2004
Superconducting fault current limiter patent March 2007
Multi-winding fault-current limiter coil with flux shaper and cooling for use in an electrical power transmission/distribution application patent-application February 2002
Superconducting fault current limiter patent-application March 2006
Fault current limiters (fcl) with the cores staurated by superconducting coils patent-application July 2006
High voltage design structure for high temperature superconducting device patent-application February 2007
Superconductor current limiting system and method patent-application May 2007
Towards the superconducting fault current limiter journal April 1991
Development of Saturated Iron Core HTS Fault Current Limiters journal June 2007

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