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Superconducting cables closer to commercialization

By Paul Dvorak | February 3, 2012

A developer of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies says General Cable Superconductors Ltd. (GCS) has completed testing of STI’s second generation (2G) HTS wire. General Cable Superconductors, a HTS continuously transposed cable provider in New Zealand, developes HTS cable using advanced designs with multiple successful projects presently in operation. GCS tested the wire, from Superconductor Technologies Inc.,  and confirmed that it met their critical current power objective.

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“The validation of General Cable Superconductors shows that the Conductus 2G HTS wire development is progressing to meet the demand of innovative power applications such as Roebel cable, which offers high current carrying capacity for future superconducting applications such as motors, generators and transformers,” says Jeff Quiram, STI’s president and chief executive officer.

Superconducting motors, generators, transformers and other rotating machines are expected to generate the large future demand for HTS wire. Manufacturing process cuts and cables 2G HTS wire to long lengths and flexible current rating from 200A to 2kA. Coils using HTS wire will let a range of devices operate at higher power densities. When compared to a copper wire based electric machine with equivalent output power, future superconducting motors and generators will enable significant size and weight reductions for the motors with higher efficiency.

Superconductor Technologies Inc.
http://www.suptech.com

 

A developer of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies says General Cable Superconductors Ltd. (GCS) has completed testing of STI’s second generation (2G) HTS wire. General Cable Superconductors, a HTS continuously transposed cable provider in New Zealand, developes HTS cable using advanced designs with multiple successful projects presently in operation. GCS tested the wire, from Superconductor Technologies Inc.,  and confirmed that it met their critical current power objective.

“The validation of General Cable Superconductors shows that the Conductus 2G HTS wire development is progressing to meet the demand of innovative power applications such as Roebel cable, which offers high current carrying capacity for future superconducting applications such as motors, generators and transformers,” says Jeff Quiram, STI’s president and chief executive officer.

 

Superconducting motors, generators, transformers and other rotating machines are expected to generate the large future demand for HTS wire. Manufacturing process cuts and cables 2G HTS wire to long lengths and flexible current rating from 200A to 2kA. Coils using HTS wire will let a range of devices operate at higher power densities. When compared to a copper wire based electric machine with equivalent output power, future superconducting motors and generators will enable significant size and weight reductions for the motors with higher efficiency.

Superconductor Technologies Inc.

http://www.suptech.com.

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