Design of HTS Toroidal Magnets for a 5 MJ SMES

Abstract

A 2.5 MJ Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage System (SMES) is being developed as a national R&D project in Korea. It is in 2nd phase of total 3 phases program. In phase 1, we developed a 600 kJ SMES which had the maximum storage over 1 MJ. Its magnet was an HTS solenoid, whereas the HTS magnet for phase 2 is a toroid which is composed of 28 HTS double pancake coils. The final target of phase 3 is to develop a 5 MJ SMES, which will start from next year. The operating temperature of the HTS magnet will be below 20 K by conduction cooling. In this paper, we present and compare conceptual designs of the magnet in the shape of toroid and the configuration of serial connection of two 2.5 MJ toroids. The most important design criterion is to minimize the total length of HTS conductors.