Book description
High temperature superconductors (HTS) offer many advantages through their application in electrical systems, including high efficiency performance and high throughput with low-electrical losses. While cryogenic cooling and precision materials manufacture is required to achieve this goal, cost reductions without significant performance loss are being achieved through the advanced design and development of HTS wires, cables and magnets, along with improvements in manufacturing methods. This book explores the fundamental principles, design and development of HTS materials and their practical applications in energy systems.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 reviews the types of energy applications that HTS materials are used in, 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.
With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, High temperature superconductors (HTS) for energy applications is an invaluable reference tool for anyone involved or interested in HTS materials and their application in energy systems, including materials scientists and electrical engineers, energy consultants, HTS materials manufacturers and designers, and researchers and academics in this field.
- Discusses fundamental issues and developments of particular HTS components
- Comprehensively reviews the design and development of HTS materials and then applications in energy systems
- Reviews the use of HTS materials and cabling transmissions, fault alignment limiters, energy storage, generators and motors, fusion and accelerator
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributor contact details
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
- Dedication
- Preface
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Part I: Fundamental science and engineering of high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials and components
- Chapter 1: Fundamental issues in high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials science and engineering
- Chapter 2: High temperature superconductor (HTS) wires and tapes
- Chapter 3: High temperature superconductor (HTS) cables
- Chapter 4: Bulk high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials
- Chapter 5: High temperature superconductor (HTS) magnets
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Chapter 6: Cryogenics for high temperature superconductor (HTS) systems
- Abstract:
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Cooling methods for superconducting magnets
- 6.3 Cryogenics issues: cooling sources, heat sources and measurement
- 6.4 Cryostat construction
- 6.5 Cooler performance
- 6.6 Thermometry
- 6.7 Development and applications of cryogenics for HTS systems
- 6.8 Challenges and requirements
- 6.9 Typical guidelines for cryogen-free magnet systems
- 6.10 Conclusions
- 6.12 Acknowledgement
- Chapter 7: Electromagnetic modeling of high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials and applications
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Part II: Application of high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials and components in energy systems
- Chapter 8: Superconducting fault current limiters and power cables
- Chapter 9: Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems
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Chapter 10: Application of high temperature superconductor (HTS) technology in rotating machinery
- Abstract:
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Types, properties and performance of high temperature superconductor (HTS) generators and motors
- 10.3 Fundamental design and development issues for HTS generators and motors
- 10.4 Key requirements for successfully applying HTS technology
- 10.5 Challenges and future trends
- 10.6 Conclusions
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Chapter 11: High temperature superconductors (HTS) in fusion technologies
- Abstract:
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Magnetic field and magnet current density considerations for a fusion reactor
- 11.3 Operating temperature of the magnet system
- 11.4 Indications for the cooling system of the fusion reactor magnet system
- 11.5 Potential HTS conductors and superconducting material for future fusion reactors
- 11.6 HTS current leads
- 11.7 Conclusion
- Chapter 12: High temperature superconductors (HTS) in accelerator systems
- Index
Product information
- Title: High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for Energy Applications
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): Woodhead Publishing
- ISBN: 9780857095299
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