Brookhaven superconducting cable test facility
Abstract
Construction has started on an outdoor testing station for flexible ac superconducting power transmission cables. The permanent equipment includes a 500 W supercritical helium refrigerator using a screw compressor and multistage turbine expanders. Helium storage for 250,000 cu ft of helium at 250 psi is provided. Initially, the cables will be tested in a horizontal cryostat some 250 ft long. The cable conductor will be energized by current transformers, initially at about 4 kA and later up to fault levels of 40 kA.
- Publication:
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Presented at Applied Superconductivity Conf
- Pub Date:
- August 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976apsu.conf.....F
- Keywords:
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- Electric Power Transmission;
- Power Lines;
- Superconducting Power Transmission;
- Test Facilities;
- Alternating Current;
- Cryogenic Equipment;
- Refrigerating Machinery;
- Transition Temperature;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering