Process Innovations for High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Wire Manufacturing Award Number: DE-EE0007871 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15 Advanced Manufacturing Office Date: 4/14/2017 Location(s): TX Office(s): Golden Field Office
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Process Innovations for High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Wire Manufacturing
Award Number: DE-EE0007871
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Date: 4/14/2017
Location(s): TX
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI) to develop and fabricate high-performance Second Generation High Temperature Superconducting (2G HTS) wires for use in advanced power transmission, power generation, and other advanced electromagnetic applications.
The 2G HTS wires would be designed and fabricated at the STI manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas. The University of North Texas (UNT) would perform metrology and materials analysis on these wires at their existing labs in Denton, TX. Once proven ready, the 2G HTS wires would be installed in an electric motor designed and assembled by TECO Westinghouse (TECO) at their Round Rock, TX manufacturing facility. Additional magnetic coil design and testing would be performed at labs located at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.