Conveners
M3Or4N: Transportation Symposia IV: Cable, Power Distribution
- Thanatheepan Balachandran (Hinetics LLC)
- Sonja Schlachter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) power systems are being developed for a variety of applications including the electrical power grid, industrial applications, data centers, high energy physics, electric ships, and electric aircraft. There are some common requirements and design features for HTS devices for all the applications. However, the design requirements for electric transportation...
The Center for Cryogenic High-Efficiency Electrical Technologies for Aircraft (CHEETA) project and Hyper Tech Research Inc. are developing demonstrations of a cryogenically cooled, low to medium voltage, high amperage, and lightweight aerospace power cable. The research presented here includes the motivation behind these demonstrations, challenges for these demonstrations, demonstration...
Cryogenic power electronics is both advantageous and indispensable in many applications, like deep space probe, military electric vehicle, magnetic resonance imaging etc. Among different semiconductors, the gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) is the most promising candidate for cryogenic applications with significant conduction loss and switching loss reductions. In...
Highly efficient electrically driven avionics have led to a renewed interest in cryogenic propulsion systems with the goal of reducing carbon emission footprint. Although cryogenic converters promise better efficiency and improved power density, a successful design is incumbent upon the appropriate switching device selection and simulation-based analyses performed prior to initial prototyping....
A sub-transmission technology using 2G HTS wires with high engineering current density is developed in the SuperLink project. The goal of the project is to supply a versatile and easy-to-install 110 kV power-link adapted to the conditions in city areas such as Munich, Germany. The realization of power links of 500 MW over 10-20 km lengths requires high performance in the AC loss of the HTS...
