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Superconductivity has the potential to be an enabling technology for future high-tech systems. Coils wound from commercially available superconducting (REBCO) tape are uniquely suited to produce high magnetic fields at high current densities. This has applications in varying fields from motors and actuators to plasma containment in fusion, from MRI and NMR to high-voltage power transport.
In order to gain experience using ReBCO superconductors and cryogenics in high-tech industry we at VDL ETG are designing and building a demonstrator linear motor using superconductivity. The linear motor design consists of a conduction cooled DC stator array of superconducting racetrack coils and conventional copper AC coils in the mover. The three phase demonstrator actuator is designed to accelerate and decelerate the mover at 1000 m/s2, over a stroke of 100 mm. The superconducting coil array targets a peak magnetic field of 7T at 25K. A thin wall, flat cryostat is required to insulate the HTS coils, while allowing the mover to be in atmospheric conditions.
In this talk we will discuss the design effort of the 100g demonstrator. We will show the cooling and insulation method of the design and discuss the challenges we meet while designing and building the demonstrator.
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