The required amount of copper stabilizer to protect a YBCO conductor coil from damage caused by a hot spot due to a quench is studied in this paper. YBCO coated conductors which are made by deposition of thin YBCO film on high resistance metal substrates are highly resistive when they are quenched. Therefore, stabilization and quench protection are more important for YBCO conductors than Bi/Ag sheathed tapes which have low resistance silver matrix. In the work we numerically calculated maximum temperature rise of a YBCO conductor quenched by a local disturbance during the sequence of quench detection and energy dump. In the analysis, necessary amount of copper to keep the maximum temperature of the conductor below a threshold value is calculated for cases of conduction cooled coils of dry windings. Based on the analysis, optimum conductor design is discussed to protect the coil from a quench reliably.
We investigated necessary amount of copper or silver stabilizer added to YBCO conductor by numerical calculation to protect the conductor in a coil of dry windings from damages caused by quenches. The coil is assumed to be operated at 20K, 40K and 77K and hot-spot temperature of the conductor during energy dump sequence is calculated. The necessary amount of the stabilizer and overall conductor current density of the conductor including the stabilizer were calculated to suppress the hot spot temperature below a certain threshold depending on the operation temperature.
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