Superconducting motors for aircraft propulsion: the Advanced Superconducting Motor Experimental Demonstrator project
Francesco Grilli, Tara Benkel, Jens Hänisch, Mayraluna Lao, T. Reis, Eva Berberich, Simon Wolfstädter, Christian Schneider, Paul Miller, Chloe Palmer, B.A. Głowacki, Vicente Climente-Alarcón, Anis Smara, Łukasz Tomków, Johannes Teigelkötter, Alexander Stock, Johannes Büdel, Loïc Jeunesse, M. Staempflin, Guillaume Delautre, Baptiste Zimmermann, Ruud van der Woude, Ana Perez, Sergey Samoilenkov, Alexander Molodyk, Enric Pardo, Milan Kapolka, Shuo Li, Anang Dadhich
Abstract
Abstract The European Union-funded Advanced Superconducting Motor Experimental Demonstrator (ASuMED) project started in May 2017 with the purpose of demonstrating the benefits of a new, fully superconducting motor for reaching the targets established by the Flightpath 2050 plan. The project aims at a motor power density of 20kW kg −1 using a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) stator. The rotor will use HTS stacks operating like permanent magnets. A highly efficient cryostat for the motor combined with an integrated cryogenic cooling system and associated power converter will be used. This article provides a general overview of the prototype that is currently being assembled and that will be tested soon.