<p>In order to develop submerged pumps to transfer liquid hydrogen, high temperature superconducting (HTS) motors to drive them as one of key components are a promising candidate with low electromagnetic loss and large specific power density per unit mass. However, since armature windings wound using HTS wires have a couple of problems such as three-phase unbalanced currents and frequency limitations, HTS wires are used only for rotor windings of the motors and metallic cables have to be applied to their armature windings. Therefore, numerical analyses to evaluate loss properties in multi-strand metal twisted cables for armature windings of HTS motors cooled at liquid hydrogen temperature are carried out by means of a two-dimensional finite element method. On the basis of a clarified physical mechanism of losses generated in the windings arranged within a slot of armature iron core, the obtained numerical results are also reproduced with theoretical expressions of the Joule loss for an alternating transport current and the eddy-current loss for an externally applied AC magnetic field. The influences of losses on the frequency and number of strands in metal twisted cables are investigated quantitatively.</p>

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Numerical and Theoretical Analyses of Losses in Armature Windings of Motors for Liquid Hydrogen Pumps

  • Kazuhiro Kajikawa,
  • Yuto Mametsuka,
  • Masahiro Furukakoi,
  • Taketsune Nakamura,
  • Akihiro Kikuchi,
  • Tomohito Miura

摘要

In order to develop submerged pumps to transfer liquid hydrogen, high temperature superconducting (HTS) motors to drive them as one of key components are a promising candidate with low electromagnetic loss and large specific power density per unit mass. However, since armature windings wound using HTS wires have a couple of problems such as three-phase unbalanced currents and frequency limitations, HTS wires are used only for rotor windings of the motors and metallic cables have to be applied to their armature windings. Therefore, numerical analyses to evaluate loss properties in multi-strand metal twisted cables for armature windings of HTS motors cooled at liquid hydrogen temperature are carried out by means of a two-dimensional finite element method. On the basis of a clarified physical mechanism of losses generated in the windings arranged within a slot of armature iron core, the obtained numerical results are also reproduced with theoretical expressions of the Joule loss for an alternating transport current and the eddy-current loss for an externally applied AC magnetic field. The influences of losses on the frequency and number of strands in metal twisted cables are investigated quantitatively.