Conveners
M3OrE - Invited Panel Session Part II: Superconducting Wind Turbines, Rotating Machines, and Materials
- Lance Cooley (Fermilab)
- Mike Sumption (The Ohio State University)
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Venkat Selvamanickam (University of Houston)01/07/2015, 16:15ICMC-02 - RE123 Conductors Processing and PropertiesInvited Oral PresentationSuperconducting generators are a viable alternative to permanent-magnet-based generators for direct-drive, high-power wind turbines especially because of their potential low operating cost, reduced weight, and near elimination of rare-earth materials. A major challenge with the commercialization of superconducting generators for wind turbines is the high cost of present day’s high temperature...Go to contribution page
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Kiruba Haran (University of Illinois)01/07/2015, 16:35CEC-09 - Cryogenics for Power Applications, Energy, Fuels and TransportationInvited Oral PresentationSeveral groups have worked to develop many different types of superconducting (SC) machines, successfully demonstrating different aspects of the technology. In spite of these efforts, commercial adoption has not taken place because of the perceived unfavorable risk/benefit assessment of SC technology. In this talk, we will describe efforts to try and break this impasse by leveraging advances...Go to contribution page
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Mr Michael Tomsic (Hyper Tech)01/07/2015, 16:55CEC-06 - Superconducting Magnet SystemsInvited Oral PresentationThe desire is for light weight wind turbine generators for both land and offshore wind that can be serviced on top of the wind towers. Hyper Tech has developed a modular concept design so the components can be shipped over conventional highways and assembled on top of a tower. The design can be scaled from 5-20MW. There is also the desire to have low operational and maintenance costs for...Go to contribution page
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