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Recent Main Events in Applied Superconductivity in China
Songtao Wu1, Yu Wu2, Yuntao Song2, Weiyue Wu2, Yanfang Bi2, Weibin Xi2, Liye Xiao3, Qiuliang Wang3, Yanwei Ma3, Xianghong Liu4, Pingxiang Zhang4, Yin Xin6, Bo Hou6, Rui Liu5, Hongjie Zhang5, Zenghe Han5, Jun Zheng7, Jiasu Wang7, Suyu Wang7, Jing Shi8, Yuejin Tang8, Ming Qiu9, Bin Wei9, Yunfei Tan2
1Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, P.R. China; now with ITER International Organization, Center de Cadarache, 13108 St. Paul-lez-Durance, France, phone: +33-4-42199824, fax:+33-4-42257261 (email: [email protected])
2Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), Hefei, P. R. China (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]).
3Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Beijing, P. R. China (e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]).
4Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research/Western Superconducting Technologies Co., Ltd. (NIN/WST), Xian, P. R. China (e-mail: [email protected])
5Innova Superconductor Technology Co., Ltd. (InnoST), Beijing, China
(e-mail: [email protected])
6Innopower Superconductor Cable Co., Ltd., (InnoPower), Beijing, P. R. China (e-mail: [email protected])
7Applied Superconductivity Laboratory (ASCLab) of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China (email:[email protected])
8Electric Power System Dynamic Simulation Laboratory, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, P. R. China (e-mail: [email protected])
9China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI), Beijing, P. R. China
(e-mail: [email protected]) Abstract— With strong support from China 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 progresses in applied superconductivity in China are reported. Keywords (Index Terms) —Superconductivity, EAST, ITER, HTS Manuscript received 19 August 2008. Reference No. CR10; Category 6,5. |