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Article #17619Re: Superconducting Energy Storage
From: Henk Peek
Date: Fri, 29 May 1987 16:13
Date: Fri, 29 May 1987 16:13
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In article <15644@gatech.gatech.edu> jeff@gatech.UUCP (Jeff Lee) writes: ->I had wondered what would happen to a superconducting device that was ->carrying, ... say 10000 amps at a few volts and something went wrong ->with the coolant. A previous posting mentioned something about some scorched ->earth and they weren't talking about anything close to 100000 watts. ->If they take the temperature all the way up to room temperature, these ->devices have the potential to fail in a truly catastrophic way. Superconducting coils are made out of very thin (100 micro meter) superconducting wires. Those superconducting wires are interdented in a Cu wire. When it goes out of superconducting the current pass through the Cu. The energy must be very fast (~1 sec) removed. Bij connecting resistors to the coil, the most of the energie is disipated in the resistors. During such event the superconducting wire going very fast to room temperature. henk peek ..!seismo!mcvax!nikhefk!henkp
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!nikhefk!henkp From: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Superconducting Energy Storage Message-ID: <160@nikhefk.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-May-87 12:13:47 EDT Article-I.D.: nikhefk.160 Posted: Fri May 29 12:13:47 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 31-May-87 03:34:40 EDT References: <226@ndmath.UUCP> <7766@orchid.UUCP> <8078@utzoo.UUCP> <15644@gatech.gatech.edu> Reply-To: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek) Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Lines: 17