The Load Test of a 365-kW HTS Motor Was Completed at a Testing facility of Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd.

Author: admin / 2007-09-08

A Japanese frontier research group (*) coordinated succeeded to develop the world's most powerful 365-kW high-temperature superconducting (HTS) motor. Recently, the load test of this motor was completed at a testing facility of Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd.
The research group had completed the world's first practical-level liquid-nitrogen cooled HTS motor using DI-BSCCO in 2005. Then the group had worked on to improve motor capacity and developed a practically applicable 365-kW HTS motor. The world’s first superconducting propulsion unit for directly driving a contra-rotating propeller is presently being constructed by connecting the newly developed 365-kW HTS motor in tandem with a 50-kW HTS motor developed last year.

Because of the remarkable features of this new concept HTS motor, it is expected that a 400-kW-class HTS marine electrical propulsion system will be introduced to the market within a few years and that a 2500-kW motor will be developed in the more distant future.



* Japanese frontier research group :

Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd./ Hitachi, Ltd./ IHI Corporation/ Nakashima Propeller Co., Ltd./ Niigata Power Systems Co., Ltd./ Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd./ Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation/ University of Fukui (Prof. Hidehiko Sugimoto)


Refer to ： http://www.sei.co.jp/news_e/press/07/07_09.html