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High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Cable for Fusion Systems

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: DE-FG02-10ER85967
Agency Tracking Number: 94388
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: 66 c
Solicitation Number: DE-FOA-0000161
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2011-03-18
Small Business Information
539 Industrial Mile Road
Columbus, OH 43228
United States
DUNS: 014152511
HUBZone Owned: Yes
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Matthew Rindfleisch
 Mr.
 (614) 481-8050
 mrindfleisch@hypertechresearch.com
Business Contact
 Lawrence Walley
Title: Mr.
Phone: (614) 481-8050
Email: elwalley@hypertechresearch.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) seeks innovative and advanced superconducting materials that have a high potential for improved conductor performance and low fabrication costs to achieve safe, reliable, economic, and environmentally-benign operation of fusion energy systems. OFES is interested in materials such as Bi-2212, MgB2 with properties that allow for operation near 20K, or YBCO conductors that are easily adaptable to bundling into high current cables carrying 30 - 60 kA. Bi-2212, MgB2 and YBCO, with their high critical temperatures, both provide the opportunity to operate devices at higher cryogenic temperatures allowing for the use of alternative, cost effective and simpler technologies than liquid helium alone. Bi-2212, MgB2 and YBCO both have the potential for being radiation resistant. MgB2 offers the possibility of being fabricated in long-length multifilamentary strands that can be formed into cables from inexpensive starting materials using conventional metalworking processes..Round-Bi-2212 wire can be fabricated into Rutherford and cable-in

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