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Trithor
Shipment of High
Performance Superconductor to Ansaldo CRIS Completed
Rheinbach,
Germany, Apr. 10:
Trithor
GmbH, a leading producer of high temperature superconductor (HTS) systems,
components and wires, is pleased to report on the successful completion of a
large scale delivery from its Rheinbach superconductor factory.
High temperature superconductors are being
currently used or emerging in markets where large power is to be handled
efficiently and safely. This includes for instance rotating machines such as big
motors or generators, power transmission cables, and large magnets.
Previously reported in Superconductor Week,
Vol 20, No 5.
HTS will also enable new industry markets
for novel devices such as fault current limiters and magnetic energy storage.
Making use of the same merits of HTS, industrial use includes linear drawing
benches and induction heaters for the process industry.
The total shipment amounted to 20
kilometers of BSCCO-type HTS wire—a product that carries hundred times more
current than conventional copper of same dimensions at little to no resistance.
Trithor’s Managing Director, Carsten Bührer, commented “to our knowledge this is
the largest delivery to date in Europe. This supply marks another step ahead in
the commercialization of HTS for electric power systems.”
The customer of this product is Ansaldo-CRIS,
a consortium of Ansaldo companies dedicated to innovations in the field of
transportation and energy technology. Italian based Ansaldo collectively is of
the world’s leading integrated manufacturers of electromechanical products
including power generators, automation and sea and ground transportation with
more than 150 years of industrial experience. Dr. Antonio Matrone, Project
Manager of Ansaldo-CRIS commented on the delivery and the wider picture “we are
extremely pleased with the Trithor’s collaboration and its ability to deliver a
key product in time and specification.
With its unique set of properties HTS can
be the key element in developing the energy technology of the near future. We
are excited to use our design and manufacturing competency to make true on this
promise.”
The HTS wire is being used for a
Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage for Power Quality based on a 50 kJ
conduction cooled magnet, whose construction is ongoing as main deliverable from
a research project coordinated by Ansaldo Ricerche (Italy), and, in addition to
CRIS and Trithor, made of another four organisations: EAA (Spain), SCIRO (Italy)
CRES (Greece) and the University of Genova (Italy).
This project, entitled HOTSMES, is partly
funded by the European Union’s 5th Framework Programme – Energy. Professor
Alfons Buekens, University of Brussels, and technical advisor to the project
noted that "These objectives and results of this project are significant
benchmarks on the pathway to creating more secure power networks and to
increasing the electrical efficiency of large-scale electric equipment."
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