High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for Energy Applications explores the fundamental principles, design and development of HTS materials and their practical applications in energy systems.

Coverage includes:

• fundamental issues and developments of particular HTS components
• design and development of HTS materials and then applications in energy systems
• use of HTS materials and cabling transmissions, fault alignment limiters, energy storage, generators and motors, fusion and accelerator

Part One describes the fundamental science, engineering and development of particular HTS components such as wires and tapes, cables, coils and magnets and discusses the cryogenics and electromagnetic modelling of HTS systems and materials.

Part Two addresses the types of energy applications in which HTS materials are used, including fault current limiters, power cables and energy storage, as well as their application in rotating machinery for improved electrical efficiencies, and in fusion technologies and accelerator systems where HTS magnets are becoming essential enabling technologies.

CONTENTS

Part 1: Fundamental Science and Engineering of High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Materials and Components

1. Fundamental issues in high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials science and engineering

• Fundamental superconductor physics
• Types, properties and performance of HTS materials
• Manufacturing methods for HTS materials

2. High temperature superconductor (HTS) wires and tapes

• Challenges with high temperature superconductor (HTS) wires and tapes
• Manufacturing scale-up of 2G HTS tapes and prototype devices
• Future of HTS wires and tapes and current research focus

3. High temperature superconductor (HTS) cables

• Short survey on properties and availability of technical long length high temperature superconductors (HTS)
• Basic requirements for cables for different applications
• HTS cable configurations

4. Bulk high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials

• Design of bulk high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials
• Development and application of bulk HTS materials
• Challenges and future trends
• Technological and commercial barriers to adoption of bulk superconductors

5. High temperature superconductor (HTS) magnets

• Electromagnets
• Superconducting magnets
• Superconducting wires
• Examples of HTS magnets

6. Cryogenics for high temperature superconductor (HTS) systems

• Cooling methods for superconducting magnets
• Cryogenics issues: cooling sources, heat sources and measurement
• Cryostat construction
• Cooler performance
• Thermometry
• Development and applications of cryogenics for HTS systems
• Challenges and requirements
• Typical guidelines for cryogen-free magnet systems

7. Electromagnetic modelling of high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials and applications

• Overview of modelling approaches for HTS materials
• Modelling methods for DC conditions
• Modelling methods for AC conditions

Part 2: Application of High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Materials and Components in Energy Systems

8. Superconducting fault current limiters and power cables

• Fault current limiters
• Superconducting power cables

9. Superconducting magnetic energy storage systems (SMES)

• Superconducting magnetic energy storage systems (SMES) limitations
• Superconducting magnet
• SMES uses and history

10. Application of high temperature superconductor (HTS) technology in rotating machinery

• Types, properties and performance of high temperature superconductor (HTS) generators and motors
• Fundamental design and development issues for HTS generators and motors
• Key requirements for successfully applying HTS technology

11. High temperature superconductors (HTS) in fusion technologies

• Magnetic field and magnet current density considerations for a fusion reactor
• Operating temperature of the magnet system
• Indications for the cooling system of the fusion reactor magnet system
• Potential HTS conductors and superconducting material for future fusion reactors
• HTS current leads

12. High temperature superconductors (HTS) in accelerator systems

• Fundamental issues for HTS in accelerators
• Types, properties and development of HTS for accelerators
• Applications of HTS in accelerators

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