Recent Main Events in Applied Superconductivity in China

Author

Wu, Songtao ; Wu, Yu ; Song, Yuntao ; Wu, Weiyue ; Bi, Yanfang ; Xi, Weibin ; Xiao, Liye ; Wang, Qiuliang ; Ma, Yanwei ; Liu, Xianghong ; Zhang, Pingxiang ; Xin, Yin ; Hou, Bo ; Liu, Rui ; Zhang, Hongjie ; Han, Zenghe ; Zheng, Jun ; Wang, Jiasu ; Wang, Su

Author_Institution

Inst. of Plasma Phys., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Hefei, China

Volume

19

Issue

3

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1069

Lastpage

1080

Abstract

With strong support from Chinese government bodies such as the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Basic Research Program of China, the field of applied superconductivity in China has been developed in different areas. Especially in the fusion application area, the first fully-superconducting tokamak, EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak), has been successfully constructed and commissioned in the last two years. Based on the requirement from the ITER project, high performance Bi-2223 HTS tape, and Nb₃Sn and NbTi strands have been developed as well. In the area of HTS applications for electric power systems, R&D has been focused on superconducting power cable, superconducting magnetic energy storage, superconducting transformer, superconducting fault current limiters. In this paper, the recent progress in applied superconductivity in China is reported.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; bismuth compounds; calcium compounds; fault current limiters; niobium compounds; power cables; strontium compounds; superconducting magnet energy storage; superconducting transformers; Bi₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O₁₀; Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak; Nb₃Sn; NbTi; applied superconductivity; electric power systems; fully-superconducting tokamak; superconducting fault current limiters; superconducting magnetic energy storage; superconducting power cable; superconducting transformer; EAST; HTS; ITER; superconductivity;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2009.2019244

Filename

5109595