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Many applications of ReBCO coated conductors contain stacks of pancake coils. In order to reduce their high AC loss, it is necessary to understand the loss mechanisms. In this article, we measure and simulate the AC loss and the critical…

Many applications, such as magnets and SMES, are usually charged and discharged under a bias DC current, which may increase the AC loss. For their design, it is necessary to understand and predict the AC loss. This article analises the AC…

The electromagnetic properties of a pancake coil in AC regime as a function of the number of turns is studied theoretically and experimentally. Specifically, the AC loss, the coil critical current and the voltage signal are discussed. The…

For superconducting coils with many turns, it is widely believed that the magnetic field from magnetization currents is negligible compared to the one generated by the whole coil. This article shows that this is not true for coils with a…

In this paper, we introduce two complementary approaches for the accurate prediction of AC losses in large-scale low-temperature superconducting (LTS) magnets. These methods account for the temperature rise within the LTS coil and its…

Striation of HTS coated conductors (CCs) as a way to reduce their magnetization AC losses has been the subject of intense research in the past years by several groups. While the principle of this approach is well understood, its practical…

The AC loss in ReBCO coated conductors is large in situations when the conductors are subjected to a considerable magnetic field, like in rotating machines, transformers and high-field magnets. Roebel cables can reduce the AC loss in these…

In this contribution we develop a refined numerical model of pancake coils assembled from a coated conductor Roebel cable, which includes the angular dependence of the critical current density $J_c$ on the magnetic field and the actual…

Many superconducting power applications contain REBCO coils. Superconducting motors are very interesting for mobile applications like aviation, thanks to their high power per unit weight. In order to reduce the inductance, multi-tape…

This paper presents the alternating current (AC) loss analysis on high-temperature superconductor (HTS) Cross-Conductor (CroCo) cables, in order to evaluate whether they could be utilized for electrical power transmission. The modeling of…

AC losses in conductor-on-rounded-core (CORC) cables of YBCO high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes are a significant challenge in HTS power applications. This study employs two finite element analysis (FEA) models to investigate the…

AC losses in a high temperature superconducting (HTS) insert coil for a 25-T cryogen-free superconducting magnet are numerically calculated during its energization, assuming slab approximation. The HTS insert coil consists of 68 single…

High temperature superconducting motors are very promising for hydrogen-electric aircraft thanks to their high specific power, specific torque, and efficiency. High temperature superconductor REBCO offer high cryogenic flexibility, but a…

Roebel cables and superconducting tape coils are often modeled as stacks of parallel superconducting tapes carrying the same transport current. We solved, in the infinitely thin approximation, the transport current and magnetization…

A homogenization method to model a stack of second generation (2G) High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tapes under AC applied transport current or magnetic field has been obtained. The idea is to find an anisotropic bulk equivalent for…

Roebel cables made of HTS coated conductors can carry high currents with a compact design and reduced AC losses. They are therefore good candidates for manufacturing coils for HTS applications such as motors and generators. In this paper we…

High-temperature superconductor (HTS) coated conductors (CC) are often wound into pancake coils with electrical insulation in-between the turns. The copper terminals are used for current injection and conduction cooling. An inherent…

AC losses of YBCO coated conductors are investigated by calculation and experiment for the higher frequency regime. Previous research using YBCO film deposited onto single crystal substrates demonstrated the effectiveness of filamentary…

The estimation of losses in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) is fundamental during the design of superconducting devices since losses can strongly influence the cooling system requirements and operating temperature. Typically, 2D…

In high power density superconducting motors, superconducting tapes are usually stacked and connected together at terminals to improve the current capacity. When a parallel sinusoidal magnetic field is applied on this partially coupled…