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Ioan C. Popa and Alin-Iulian Dolan Doina Ghindeanu and Cătălin Boltaşu
Faculty of Electrical Engineering High Power Laboratory
University of Craiova ICMET
Craiova, Romania Craiova, Romania
e-mail: ipopa@elth.ucv.ro, adolan@elth.ucv.ro e-mail: bolcat@yahoo.com
∂ ⎛ ∂T ⎞ ∂ ⎛ ∂T ⎞ ∂T
⎜λ ⎟ + ⎜λ ⎟⎟ + S = ρc p (3)
∂x ⎝ ∂x ⎠ ∂y ⎜⎝ ∂y ⎠ ∂t
Fig. 3. Electric circuit model for rated current.
where ρ is the mass density and cp is specific heat.
The heat transfer mechanism in busbar is done in Fig. 2. The over-temperature and the temperature of the shield are
C. Shield temperature Pe
∆T = , T2 = Tma + ∆T (8)
The global thermal transmissivity is [2], [3], [4], [6] α
⎛1 ⎛ 1 ⎞r ⎞ III. RESULTS
c = 2π r1 K B / ⎜ + ⎜⎜ − 1⎟⎟ 1 ⎟ (13)
⎜ε ⎟
⎝ 1 ⎝ ε2 ⎠ r2 ⎠ The Fig. 5 - 7 shows the magnetic flux density and
temperature distribution for busbars system geometry with
Adding the two thermal flux, from (10) and (12) results dimensions presented in table IV. In table I the different
physical quantities are presented. In table III can be seen a
good agreement between numerical and experimental results.
b(T1 − T2 )1.2 + c(T14 − T24 ) = P1 (14)
where the coefficients b and c are known (from (11) and (13))
and T2 is absolute shield temperature and it is known. The total
thermal flux P1 is computed by AC Magnetic model (table I).
The conductor temperature T1 is done by solving of (14).
E. Analytical results
With the next values of quantities in equations (4) – (14):
Fig. 4. Coupled problems for transient thermal analysis for short-circuit current
θma = 16.15°C, λ = 0.027 Wm-1K-1, ε = 0.61, β = 0.003194, (In – rated current).
cp = 1010 Jּkg-1K-1, ρ = 1.128 kgּm-3, dc = 0.97 m,
P1 = 43.75 W/m, P2 = 19.93 W/m, ε1 = ε2 = 0.9, r1 = 0.05 m,
Fig. 5. Magnetic flux density lines (shield effect) and current density distribution.
Fig. 6. Magnetic flux density distribution along X axis (shield effect) at rated current (In=2000 A).
Fig. 7. Thermal field distribution in steady-state for rated current (In=2000 A, θamb=16.15 °C, λ=7 W/m-1K-1).
TABLE I. PHYSICAL QUANTITIES IN BUSBARS SYSTEM AT RATED CURRENT (In = 2000 A, RMS value)
Conductor 1 Conductor 2 Conductor 3 Shield 1 Shield 2 Shield 3
Joule heat [W/m] 44.12 44.12 44.12 20.46 19.99 19.53
Total current (peak value) [A] 2828.4 2828.4 2828.4 2862.1 2828.5 2795.9
Total inductance [H/m] 3.289ּ10-7 3.241ּ10-7 3.155ּ10-7
Impedance [Ω/m] 1.025ּ10-4 1.021ּ10-4 1.011ּ10-4
Resistance [Ω/m] 1.568ּ10-5 1.683ּ10-5 1.557ּ10-5
Reactance [Ω/m] 1.013ּ10-4 1.007ּ10-4 9.988ּ10-5
Voltage drop [mV/m] 204.95 204.11 202.14 1.597 1.597 1.597
TABLE II. PHYSICAL QUANTITIES IN BUSBARS SYSTEM AT SHORT-CIRCUIT REGIM (It = 50 kA, RMS value)
Conductor 1 Conductor 2 Conductor 3 Shield 1 Shield 2 Shield 3
Joule heat [kW/m] 25.414 25.413 25.414 12.16 11.947 11.681
Total current (peak value) [kA] 70.876 70.876 70.876 71.807 71.314 70.519
Voltage drop [V/m] 5.113 5.092 5.046 0.038 0.038 0.038