Speaker
Description
As desired for a sustainable economy, efficient renewable energy generation, conversion, distribution, and storage technologies are indispensable to meet society’s increased need in energy utilization. Propulsion is one of the major functions the modern society needs, and electric-propulsion, rather than internal combustion based propulsion, will be a key player to help reach the goal of sustainability by directly linking the renewable energy sources to energy applications.
Unlike other energy storage means available, electricity storage in the form of electric current provides potential advantages of high performance, high conversion efficiency, and unique capability to meet high demand in power output in energy applications. Superconductivity at reasonable cryogenic temperatures will provide the foundation to develop energy related technologies.
This presentation will briefly overview some current effort in developing SMES as a means of energy storage that can be applicable in areas of hybrid-electric propulsion, power conditioning for a microgrids, and pulsed power source development for special energy applications. An example will be given for a first generation of HTS solenoid magnet design, fabrication, and test as an integrated SMES system.
