Conduction-Cooled Brass Current Leads for a Resistive Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (SFCL) System

Abstract

This paper presents the design and performance results of a pair of conduction-cooled brass current leads for a resistive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) system. The 24 kV class SFCL, which has been recently developed by the KEPRI-LSIS collaboration group in Korea, requires three pairs of conduction-cooled brass current leads operated continuously at 630 A. When the SFCL system is in the fault-mode, the current leads have experienced a 60-Hz fault current of ~10 kA at 24 kV for 3-5 cycles. In this paper, we present the performance results of the conduction-cooled brass (commercial brass, 10% Zn) leads having a rated current of 667 A operated in a bath of liquid nitrogen.