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Coil Simulator for AC Conductors

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA9550-05-C-0162
Agency Tracking Number: F045-002-0177
Amount: $500,000.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF04-T002
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-08-11
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-08-11
Small Business Information
Two Technology Drive
Westborough, MA 01581
United States
DUNS: 185904497
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 C. Thieme
 Senior Technical Staff
 (508) 621-4264
 cthieme@amsuper.com
Business Contact
 Tom Rosa
Title: V.P., Finance & Accounting
Phone: (508) 621-4265
Email: trosa@amsuper.com
Research Institution
 FLORIDA STATE UNIV.
 Kemper Kemper
 
1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310
United States

 (850) 644-3347
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

This STTR Project addresses stability issues in Second Generation High Temperature Super- conductor (2G HTS) wire. It explores novel ways to address and characterize 2G HTS stability, in particular when used under ac conditions. In the Phase I novel components for increased stability were explored. Stability of various conductors was tested. A so-called "Coil Simulator” was designed. In the Phase II a number of 2G conductors will be manufactured which are stabilized in a variety of ways. The conductors will be tested in short lengths and in coil form. Quench protection will be addressed. The Coil Simulator will be built. It will test a conductor in short lengths as if positioned in a coil, under a wide range of conditions. The test conditions can be varied widely. They include a combination of DC and AC magnetic fields, sample AC currents with frequencies up to 400Hz, and temperatures ranging from 27 K to 77 K. The coil simulator will test a number of wire architectures as produced under this Phase II. The stability results from this Coil Simulator will be compared to stability measurements in a number of small coils using the same 2G conductors. The work will greatly facilitate future 2G conductor design.

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