Characteristics of superconducting generator at high response excitation

Abstract Superconducting generators have many advantages, one of which is their ability to improve the stability of power systems because of their low synchronous impedances. The advantage may be increased by adoption of high‐response excitation. The first 100 kVA high‐response excitation superconducting generator has now been built. One of the problems in the design of such generators involves the characteristics of the field circuit, i.e., the field armature winding, losses in the component materials, and loss in the superconducting field winding. In this paper, a 2‐dimensional electromagnetic field analysis of field circuit characteristics is presented.