Publications related to Busbar

DEMO toroidal field coil fast discharge unit integration studies

The Fast Discharge Units (FDUs) of the Superconducting (SC) Toroidal Field (TF) coils in the European demonstration fusion power plant DEMO warrant the machine integrity over its full lifetime against severe failure events, such as SC coil quenches or any ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Assessment of the Thermal-Hydraulic Performance of the European DEMO NbTi Bus Bars

Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino

We present a numerical assessment of the thermal-hydraulic performance of the NbTi bus bars designed for the European DEMO. We consider the CS, TF and PF bus bars, as well as two alternative TF options for high-current operations. The main sources of stati ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Technical and economic feasibility study of high-current HTS bus bars for fusion reactors

Kamil Sedlák, Rainer Wesche, Roberto Guarino

In this study, we present a technical and economic assessment of high-current HTS bus bars for primary use in fusion reactors. Our objective is to verify the technical feasibility of such conductors and, for this purpose, we carry out a conceptual design o ...

Elsevier2022

Current Limiting in Overload Conditions of an LLC-Converter-Based DC Transformer

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The dc transformers based on an LLC converter operated in open loop near resonant frequency have several crucial advantages compared to other topologies. These advantages are the stiff voltage ratio with a natural power flow, the dc grid isolation via medi ...

2021

Quantifying and modeling the impact of interconnection failures on the electrical performance of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Matthieu Despeisse, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud, Eleonora Annigoni

Failures in the metallic interconnections are among the main degradation modes for photovoltaic modules. Fatigue accumulation due to thermomechanical stresses can result in deterioration of the solder joints or in broken ribbons. In this paper, we first qu ...

2019

Medium Voltage DC-DC Converter for Power Collection Links : A Multistage Stacked Boost Architecture

Gina Kristin Steinke

Nowadays electrical energy generation is an important topic discussed in the society. Since technologies like wind or solar energy generation are most of the time placed far away from the city centres one point to focus on is the transmission of the energy ...

EPFL2017

Realization and optimization of bus bar current transducers based on Hall effect sensors

Radivoje Popovic

In this paper the realization and optimization of two coreless open-loop bus bar current transducers based on a Hall effect sensor are presented. Two types of bus bar are evaluated: flat rectangular and rectangular with a restrictive region in the middle. ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

MgB2 Hollow Wires and Cables Embedded in a Mg Alloy Matrix

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Davide Uglietti

The brittleness of the MgB2 wires prevents performing a cable architecture with very small bending radius, similar to NbTi Rutherford cables. Consequently, it is important to reduce the thickness of the superconducting materials in order to increase its be ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Manufacture of ITER feeder sample conductors

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Bo Liu, Hongwei Li

The ITER feeders are the components that connect the ITER magnet systems located inside the main cryostat to the cryogenics, power-supply and control system interfaces outside the cryostat. The feeder busbars rely on the Cable-In-Conduit Conductor (CICC) d ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

On the Relationship Between the Signature of Close Electric Field and the Equivalent Corona Current in Lightning Return Stroke Models

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Carlo Alberto Nucci

Engineering return stroke models can be categorized either as current generation (traveling current source type) models or current propagation (transmission line type) models. The current generation models are described among other parameters by a corona c ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2008