Advanced Manufacturing of High Performance Superconductor Wires for Next Generation Electric Machines Award Number: DE-EE0007869 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Advanced Manufacturing Office Date: 3/24/2017 Location(s): TX Office(s): Golden Field Office
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Advanced Manufacturing of High Performance Superconductor Wires for Next Generation Electric Machines
Award Number: DE-EE0007869
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Date: 3/24/2017
Location(s): TX
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to the University of Houston (UH) to develop and scale up a second generation high temperature superconductor wire with enhanced performance to be used in next-generation electric machines.
Work at the UH laboratory in Houston, TX would involve the development of superconductor wire including processing and testing. Work at SuperPower (Schenectady, NY) includes fabrication of buffer tapes for the superconductor wire. Efforts at E2P Solutions (Tallahassee, FL) includes construction and testing of a coil made with superconductor wire. Finally work at TECO-Westinghouse (Round Rock, TX) includes design of a coil made with superconductor wire.