Necessity of electromagnetic field computation for the magnetic current limiter

Issue title: Proceedings of the tenth International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics ISEM-Tokyo

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mukhopadhyay, S.C.^{a; *} | Iwahara, M.^b | Yamada, S.^b

Affiliations: [a] Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, Private bag 11222, Palmerston North, New Zealand | [b] Faculty of Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kodatsuno 2-40-20, Kanazawa, 920, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: S.C. Mukhopadhyay, Fax: +64 6 350 5604; E-mail: S.C.Mukhopadhyay@massey.ac.nz

Abstract: For the last few years the authors have been involved in the design and development of different topologies of magnetic current limiter (MCL). The small scale laboratory models have been fabricated and experiments were conducted. The simulated performance obtained from the tableau approach based on lumped parameter model shows discrepancy with the experiment. This paper describes the necessity of electromagnetic field computation which clearly shows the discrepancy between the observed and the simulation results, which can be attributed to a non uniform flux distribution in the core.

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-2002-346

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 14, no. 1-4, pp. 47-50, 2002