Full Power Test of a 36.5 MW HTS Propulsion Motor

Author

Gamble, Bruce ; Snitchler, Greg ; MacDonald, Tim

Author_Institution

American Supercond. Corp., Westborough, MA, USA

Volume

21

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1083

Lastpage

1088

Abstract

This paper discusses the full-power testing of a 36.5 MW High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) propulsion motor at the Navy´s Land Based Test Site (LBTS) located in Philadelphia, PA. This motor was developed under funding from the Office of Naval Research and passed no-load factory testing at Philadelphia in March 2007. The Naval Surface Warfare Center (Carderock Division - Philadelphia site) designed and installed a test facility at LBTS to support full-power/full-torque testing of the HTS motor delivered to the Navy in 2007. The facility, test plan and full-power and full-torque test results of the HTS propulsion motor are presented. These test results provide the final substantiation that this technology is ready for integration in to a Navy electric drive combatant.

Keywords

high-temperature superconductors; machine testing; propulsion; superconducting machines; Carderock Division; HTS propulsion motor; Naval Research Office; Naval Surface Warfare Center; Navy electric drive combatant; Navy´s land based test site; PA; Philadelphia site; full-power testing; high temperature superconductor propulsion motor; no-load factory testing; power 36.5 MW; Heating; High temperature superconductors; Stator windings; Synchronous motors; Testing; Torque; Advanced propulsion motors; electric ship propulsion; high temperature superconductors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2010.2093854

Filename

5676207