Role of HTSing Material in Electrical Power Transmission & Distribution Sectors for Energy Conservation

Abstract

Today, the development of any country depends on a great extent on the availability and usage of energy. It is therefore natural that we all would be utilizing the available energy for industrial production, commercial activities, urban & rural development and personal requirements. No country can therefore afford to think of not using the energy. Efficiency of power production, transmission and distribution, improvement of power quality become priorities in the field of electric power industry in the 21st century. Requirements to ecological and resource saving aspects at all phases of power production and distribution are simultaneously raise. Continual improvement of technologies for the safe use of power resources is a key to sustainable development of a human society. In particular, high temperature superconductivity (HTS) should be used to meet the growing needs of the electric power industry. It is known that HTS power cables allow us to increase the level of transmitted energy to several W at a voltage of 66-110kV. HTS cables of a coaxial design are almost ideal non-polluting system shielding electromagnetic field. Superconducting electric machines are electromechanical systems that rely on the use of one or more superconducting elements. The most important parameter that is of utmost interest in these machines is the generation of a very high magnetic field that is not possible in a conventional machine. In the present work, it has been tried to analyze the various configuration of HTS power transmission systems and various applications in superconducting electrical machines.