CORPORATE NEWS:
SuperVAR helps stabilise grid voltage
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) and GE Energy held their joint annual Voltage Stability Seminar in October last year.
The event drew 35 planning engineers and operations personnel from a variety of organisations including utilities and international consulting firms. The seminar was lead by industry expert Rob D’Aquila, principal consultant at GE Energy, and featured detailed discussions on load modelling and the solutions for various reactive compensation needs.
A new breakthrough product utilising
high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire was featured in a segment detailing the solutions available to meet reactive power demands for a variety of applications.
The product – AMSC’s SuperVAR dynamic synchronous condenser – is powered by AMSC HTS wire which enables the SuperVAR machine to provide a more efficient system with significant advantages over conventional synchronous condensers: lower standby losses, higher output, lower cost and higher reliability.
The SuperVAR synchronous condenser can help stabilise grid voltage, increase reliability and maximise transmission capacity. The
HTS wire in SuperVAR machine conducts over 150 times the electrical current of copper wires of the same dimensions, and at much higher efficiency says AMSC.
Such characteristics give product developers the ability to design components with high temperature superconducting wire – such as coils for electric motors – that deliver much higher power density.
Power-dense components made with HTS wire allow product developers to shrink the size of electrical systems.
In the case of large electrical systems,
such as industrial motors or generators like the SuperVAR machine, not only does this reduce their physical size dramatically, it also substantially cuts their weight and manufacturing and maintenance costs.
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American Superconductor Corp |
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