Modeling Ampacity in Advanced Electrical Conductors

Abstract An enabling advantage of carbon-based conductors is their low density and high thermal conductivity. To put this in the perspective applications, current rating copper nanocomposite different lengths are modeled. For comparison, required to raise maximum temperature studied 150 °C calculated with a joule heating model. The model validated an experimental setup equipped camera. It shown that while doped carbon nanotube (CNT) may potentially result improved performance compared on weight basis, ultra-conductive (UCC) can outperform both volume bases. Additionally, hypothetical copper-matrix composite conductor fractions conductivity lightweight graphene fibers (Cu–C composite) included analysis. properties Cu–C evaluated based Lewis–Nielson rule mixture models, as inputs for results show beneficial improving micro-electronics tradeoff decreased electrical lower carrying capacity applications use longer conductors.