Feasibility of Hydrogen Cooled Superconducting Magnets

Author

Hirabayashi, Hiromi ; Makida, Yasuhiro ; Nomura, Shinichi ; Shintomi, Takakazu

Author_Institution

High Energy Accelerator Res. Organ., Ibaraki

Volume

16

Issue

2

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1435

Lastpage

1438

Abstract

It looks feasible to realize hydrogen cooled superconducting magnets with High Tc Superconductors (HTS) and newly discovered magnesium di-boride (MgB₂). As is well known, liquid and slush hydrogen between 15~20 K, could be not only an excellent refrigerant for HTS and MgB₂, but also a clean energy transporter without exhaust of carbon di-oxide. HTS cooled by liquid hydrogen at 22 K can carry as large as several times current at 77 K cooled by liquid nitrogen. These are reasons why liquid hydrogen is preferable for SMES refrigerant to liquid nitrogen. One of such possibilities, an emergent power supply composed with SMES, Liquid Hydrogen Storage, Fuel Cell and Lithium Battery is designed and proposed. As a practical example, the conceptual design of 200 MW, 10 hour emergency power supply is described

Keywords

emergency power supply; fuel cells; high-temperature superconductors; hydrogen storage; magnesium compounds; secondary cells; superconducting magnets; 200 MW; MgB₂; SMES refrigerant; emergency power supply; energy transporter; fuel cell; high Tc superconductors; hydrogen cooled superconducting magnets; liquid hydrogen storage; lithium battery; magnesium diboride; Fuel cells; Fuel storage; High temperature superconductors; Hydrogen storage; Magnesium; Nitrogen; Power supplies; Refrigerants; Samarium; Superconducting magnets; HTS conductor; SMES; liquid hydrogen;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2005.869556

Filename

1643123