EP0574478A1 - Accumulateur de courant supraconducteur inductif. - Google Patents

Accumulateur de courant supraconducteur inductif.

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EP0574478A1
EP0574478A1 EP92906193A EP92906193A EP0574478A1 EP 0574478 A1 EP0574478 A1 EP 0574478A1 EP 92906193 A EP92906193 A EP 92906193A EP 92906193 A EP92906193 A EP 92906193A EP 0574478 A1 EP0574478 A1 EP 0574478A1
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coil
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storage device
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storage
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Werner Weck
Hermann Schoelderle
Peter Ehrhart
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L3 Magnet Motor GmbH
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F6/00—Superconducting magnets; Superconducting coils
    • H01F6/006—Supplying energising or de-energising current; Flux pumps

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  • the invention relates to an inductive, superconducting current storage device, characterized in that it has an inner coil wound from superconducting material and an outer coil arranged at a distance around the inner coil and wound from superconducting material, the inner coil and the outer coil flowing through in opposite directions during operation, so that in the annular space between the inner coil and the outer coil there is the same, but oppositely directed magnetic flux as in the interior of the inner coil.
  • Inductive, superconducting current storage devices which have a cylindrical coil as the most important component, are known.
  • the magnetic field present in the interior of the coil exits at both coil ends and closes outside the coil, so that a magnetic field with a generally very high magnetic field strength prevails in the vicinity of the coil.
  • the magnetic circuit runs in a first axial direction through the interior of the inner coil and then in the opposite, second axial direction through the annular space between the inner coil and the outer coil, so that - apart from areas close to the two ends of the coil arrangement - there is practically no magnetic field outside the coil arrangement.
  • the magnetic field is compensated or returned in the coil arrangement.
  • the term “superconducting material” denotes materials which have been known for a long time, as a rule metallic, and which are superconducting only at temperatures slightly above absolute zero.
  • this term also refers to the mostly ceramic materials that have only been known for a few years and are still superconducting at a considerable temperature distance from the absolute zero point. These materials are often called high-temperature superconductors, and the temperature of liquid nitrogen can be selected as the division limit; According to this classification, high-temperature superconductors are those which are still superconducting at least at the boiling point of liquid nitrogen.
  • the windings of the inner coil and the outer coil and the magnetic flux cross sections of the annular space and of the inner space are preferably designed in such a way that at least substantially the same magnetic flux densities result in the annular space and in the inner space. This also applies to the circumference of the inner coil and the outer coil.
  • the superconducting material of the two coils can be used practically at all points.
  • the inner coil and the outer coil belong to a common storage circuit.
  • the storage circuit is preferably connected to one Consumer circuit connected.
  • the storage circuit has a discharge switch device constructed with superconducting material, which can be brought into a high-ohmic, normally conducting state to interrupt the storage circuit and thus to discharge the storage device via the consumer circuit.
  • Switches constructed with superconducting material are known per se, as are means for bringing the switch into a high-ohmic, normally conductive state for opening, for example a heating device, a device for applying energy to the switch (high-frequency radiation, laser radiation, etc.), a device for applying a current pulse of high current intensity to the superconducting material of the switch.
  • a heating device for example a heating device, a device for applying energy to the switch (high-frequency radiation, laser radiation, etc.), a device for applying a current pulse of high current intensity to the superconducting material of the switch.
  • the latter is particularly preferred in the current storage device according to the invention, in particular in an embodiment in which the current pulse is generated by discharging one or more capacitors.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic axial section of the geometric arrangement of essential components of a power store
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of the power store from FIG. 1, a device for inductively charging the power store being additionally shown;
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the power storage of Figures 1 and 2;
  • a current store which is composed of a plurality of partial current stores, a device for inductively charging the current store being shown;
  • Fig. 5 is a block diagram of the power storage of Fig. 4.
  • Fig. 6 is a partial section like Fig. 1 of a modified coil design.
  • the current store 2 essentially consists of a practically cylindrical inner coil 4 made of superconducting material, a practically cylindrical one concentrically aligned therewith Outer coil 6 made of superconducting material, a device 8 for inductively charging the coils 4 and 6, and a discharge switch device 10.
  • the inner coil 4 is wound in a first winding direction, while the outer coil 6 is wound in the opposite winding direction.
  • the annular space 12 between the outer coil 6 and the inner coil 4 has an annular magnetic flux cross-section (which can be seen in plan view in FIG. 2) and which has the cross-sectional area of the circular magnetic flux cross-section of the interior 14 of the inner coil 4 (which can be seen in plan view in FIG. 2) after essentially corresponds.
  • the inner coil 4 and the outer coil 6 have essentially the same number of turns and are electrically connected in series in such a way that they have current flowing through them in opposite directions during operation. This can also be achieved by connecting the inner coil 4 and the outer coil 6 accordingly if the two coils 4 and 6 are not wound in opposite directions.
  • the inner coil 4 and the outer coil 6 are axially of essentially the same length and in alignment with one another at their two axial ends.
  • the charging device 8 essentially consists of a primary coil and a secondary coil device, which is shown in FIG. 2 as a uniform arrangement 16, and two charge switches 18, 20, via which the secondary coil device is connected to a storage circuit. More detailed information is given below in connection with FIG. 3.
  • the primary coil, the secondary coil device, the connections between the secondary coil device and the two charge switches 18, 20, the two charge switches 18, 20, and the connections between the charge switches 18, 20 and the discharge switch device 10 are constructed with superconducting material.
  • the discharge switch device 10 essentially consists of a coil wound in two strands of superconducting material, as a result of which the discharge switch device 10 has a large superconducting material length.
  • the discharge switch device 10 is arranged concentrically to the inner coil 4 and the outer coil 6 at a small distance around the outer coil 6.
  • the discharge switch device 10 is electrically connected on the one hand to the charging device 8 and on the other hand to the outer coil 6 and the inner coil 4, in such a way that the two winding phases of the switch coil flow through in opposite directions. More details on this are described below in connection with FIG. 3.
  • the switch coil 10 is thus closely integrated with the arrangement of the inner coil 4 and the outer coil 6, but is located radially outside the outer coil 6 in the practically magnetic field-free space.
  • the double-stranded winding structure of the switch coil 10, through which current flows in opposite directions, leads to the switch device being inductive overall is inactive. There is practically no effect of the magnetic field of the storage coil arrangement on the discharge switch device and vice versa.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the electrical connection of the components of the power store 2 described so far. It can be seen that the inner coil 4 and the outer coil 6 are electrically connected in series, that the charge secondary coil device has a first secondary coil 24 and a second secondary coil 26 (which is connected to one another in the center) has an electrical connection to one end of the inner coil 4 from the connection point 28 of the two charge secondary coils 24, 26 via a first discharge switch 30, and between the free ends the charge secondary coils 24 and 26 are electrically connected to the outer coil 6 via the charge switches 18, 20 and a second discharge switch 32. All components and electrical connections now described in connection with FIG. 3 consist electrically of superconducting material, namely of a continuous superconducting material strand, in which only the connection point 28 between the two charge secondary coils 24, 26 and those to be described further below Connection points 34 and 36 are present.
  • the first discharge switch 30 is the one winding strand of the discharge switch device 10
  • the second discharge switch 32 is the second winding strand of the discharge switch device 10
  • the first discharge switch 30 and the second discharge switch 32 being spatially are summarized as a common discharge switch coil.
  • FIG. 3 it can also be seen that the upper end of the first charge secondary coil 24 is connected via an electrical connection 38 to a connection point 34 which lies in the electrical connection between the lower end of the second charge secondary coil 26 and the outer coil 6, specifically between the second charge switch 20 and the second discharge Switch 32.
  • the first charge switch 18 is located in the connection 38.
  • the two secondary coils 24 and 26 act inductively together with the charge primary coil 40, which likewise consists of superconducting material and is fed with alternating current for charging the current store 2. All of the components of the power store 2 described so far in connection with FIG. 3 are located in a common cryogenic area 42 which is within the dash-dotted line in FIG. 3.
  • the charge primary coil 40 can alternatively be wound from normal conducting material and be located outside the cryogenic area 42.
  • the alternating current flowing in the charge primary coil 40 induces periodically alternating signs in the two charge secondary coils 24 and 26.
  • the charge switches 18 and 20 are correspondingly alternately opened and closed, so that either the first charge secondary coil 24 or the second charge secondary coil 26 is alternately switched into the storage circuit 44 and feeds a charge current pulse there with the correct sign.
  • the storage circuit 44 thus leads from the upper end of the inner coil 4 via the first discharge switch 30, then either via the first charge secondary coil 24 and the closed, first charge switch 18 or the second charge secondary coil 26 and the closed, second charge switch 20 to the connection point 34, from there via the second discharge switch 32 to the lower end of the outer coil 6, finally from the upper end of the outer coil 6 to the lower end of the inner coil 4. It is understood that at times when the storage current circuit 44 is not recharged, only one of the two charge switches 18, 20 is closed and the other of the two charge switches 18, 20 is open and that at times when the storage circuit 44 is not discharged, the two discharge switches 30, 32 are closed.
  • the switching power to be managed by each charge switch 18, 20 is significantly lower than the switching power to be managed by the discharge switch device 10 , so that the charge switches 18, 20 can be constructed in a less expensive and smaller manner than the discharge switch device 10.
  • the circuit sequence of the charge switches 18, 20 can be set up in such a way that the charge switches 18, 20 open in a practically current-free state and conclude.
  • a connection point 36 is located in the connection between the upper end of the inner coil 4 and the first discharge switch 30, and analogously there is a connection point 36 in the connection between the lower end of the inner coil 6 and the second discharge switch 32. From each connection point 36 leads a discharge connection 46 or consumer connection, which is also shown in FIG. 2, out of the cryogenic area 42. Each discharge port 46 consists of at least the boundary of the cryogenic area 42 of normal conducting material.
  • a consumer circuit 48 connects to the discharge connections 46 and contains one or more current consumers 50 (not shown).
  • a circuit 52 with a capacitor 54 is also connected to the discharge connections 46.
  • the capacitor 54 In order to discharge the current store 2, the capacitor 54 is brought to discharge, so that a corresponding current pulse arrives in the storage circuit 44 (the current pulse does not flow through the consumer circuit 48 because the latter is high-impedance because of the current consumer 50).
  • the current pulse is dimensioned so high that in the discharge switches 30, 32 the superconductivity breaks down over a long length of the switch winding and this makes it high-resistance.
  • the current stored in the now opened storage circuit 44 flows through the discharge circuit 48 through the current consumer (s) 50.
  • the discharge switches 30, 32 are closed again by being brought back into the superconducting state . It is pointed out that in principle it is sufficient if the storage circuit 44 is interrupted at only one point for discharging.
  • the capacitor circuit 52 can be connected at other points in the storage circuit 44 or a separate capacitor circuit 52 connected in front of and behind it can be provided for each discharge switch 30, 32. In the latter case, one can connect so that when the capacitor 54 is discharged, the closed one of the two charge switches 18, 20 also opens becomes.
  • cryogenic area 42 means that a temperature prevails in this area at which the superconducting material of the components and compounds described is in the superconducting state. Specifically, it is a bath made of liquid helium or liquid nitrogen, for example. This bath is also in the interior 14 of the inner coil 4 and in the annular space 12 between the inner coil 4 and the outer coil 6.
  • the inner coil 4 and / or the outer coil 6 can each be composed of a plurality of partial coils arranged one above the other, which are electrically connected in series or in parallel.
  • FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a power store 2 in which a plurality of partial power stores 60, which are each constructed individually as described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3, are stacked one on top of the other.
  • Each partial power store 60 has a lower, plate-like support part 62 made of non-agglutinable material.
  • An inductive charging device 8 for each of the partial current stores 60 is also shown.
  • the partial current storage devices 60 are stacked on top of one another in such a way that the vertical central axes of the storage inner coils 4 coincide to form a common axis 64. The same applies to the outer coils 6 and the discharge switch coils 10.
  • FIG. 5 shows that the components within each partial current store 60 are connected in exactly the same way as in the current store 2 according to FIGS. 1 to 3. It can also be seen that the individual charge primary coils 40 are electrically connected in series. Alternatively, a common charge primary coil can be provided for all partial current storage devices 60. Finally, it can be seen that the discharge connections 46 of the individual storage circuits 44 are connected to one another in such a way that the storage coil pairs 4, 6 are connected in total in parallel to one or more consumers 50 (not shown).
  • the consumer connections 46 of the individual storage circuits 44 in such a way that the storage coils 4, 6 are connected in series to the consumer (s) 50.
  • the circuits 52 for applying a current pulse to the storage circuits 44 are not shown. It is generally noted that the current direction in the various coils is identified by the symbols x for a first current direction and for the opposite current direction.
  • the annular space 12 between the inner coil 4 or the inner coils 6 and the outer coil 6 or the outer coils 6, for example can also be filled with a plastic mass which produces the physical cohesion of the coils or supported.
  • the discharge switch coil 10 or the discharge coils 10 can also be combined with the outer coil 6 or the outer coils 6 by means of a plastic ace.
  • 6 illustrates a modified coil design.
  • the outer coil 6 is divided into an upper outer coil 6a and a lower outer coil 6b.
  • the upper outer coil 6a has a first connection 46 at the top, radially on the outside.
  • a connection leads from the lower end of the upper part outer coil 6a to the upper end of the inner coil 4.
  • a connection leads from the lower end of the inner coil 4 to the upper end of the lower part outer coil 6b.
  • a second connection 46 is provided radially on the outside. In this way, no connection 46 has to be passed above or below the outer coil 6 to the inner coil 4.
  • the inner coil 4 can be divided into an upper and a lower coil section.

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Abstract

Accumulateur de courant supraconducteur inductif (2), caractérisé en ce qu'il présente une bobine intérieure (4) constitué d'un matériau supraconducteur, ainsi que, disposée à distance autour de la bobine intérieure (4) et constituée d'un matériau supraconducteur bobiné en sens inverse par rapport à la bobine intérieure (4), une bobine extérieure (6), de manière à ce que dans l'espace annulaire (12) entre la bobine intérieure (4) et la bobine extérieure (6) règne le même flux magnétique, mais dirigé en sens inverse, que celui de l'espace intérieur (14) de la bobine intérieure (4).
EP92906193A 1991-03-04 1992-03-04 Accumulateur de courant supraconducteur inductif Expired - Lifetime EP0574478B1 (fr)

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