Enhanced 2G HTS Wire for Electric Motor Applications Award Number: DE-EE0007870 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Advanced Manufacturing Office Date: 3/28/2017 Location(s): MA Office(s): Golden Field Office
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Enhanced 2G HTS Wire for Electric Motor Applications
Award Number: DE-EE0007870
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Date: 3/28/2017
Location(s): MA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to the American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) to develop a second generation high temperature superconducting (HTS) wire by creating an extremely uniform point-defect flux pinning microstructure, produced by a reel-to-reel (R2R) irradiation process, that includes a novel wire architecture comprised of two HTS layers within a single wire. The project would develop an HTS wire with enhanced current capacity and would demonstrate a reduction in wire material and manufacturing costs as well as the scalability, throughput, and yield of the R2R irradiation and exfoliation processes. The project would involve wire and coil fabrication and testing.
At the AMSC Devens, Massachusetts manufacturing facility, activities would include physical modification of wire purchased from AMSC manufacturing, vacuum deposition of silver on short wire samples, and mechanical/electrical characterization of wire samples. At the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, radiation studies, thermal annealing studies, and electrical measurements would occur. At the Brookhaven Technology Group in Stony Brook, New York, laboratory activities would include exfoliation, laser slitting, and various thermal annealing operations. Finally at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, electron microscopy studies would occur.