Department of Energy

Superconductivity for Electric Systems 2007 Annual Peer Review

August 7-9, 2007
Doubletree Hotel Crystal City
Arlington, Virginia

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Agenda

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Tuesday, August 7th – DAY ONE (Crystal Ballroom)

7:30 - 8:30 am Registration/Coffee & Bagels

7:45 - 8:30 am Peer Reviewers' Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40 am Welcome – Program Overview and Purpose of Peer Review
Debbie Haught, Program Manager, Superconductivity for Electric Systems

8:40 - 8:55 am Superconductor Industry Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation for James Daley
Presented by Venkat Selvamanickam, SuperPower

8:55 - 9:20 am Opening Remarks
Patricia Hoffman, Deputy Director for Research and Development, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability  (PDF 182 KB)
9:20 - 9:45 am Department of Homeland Security and a More Resilient Electric Grid
Patrick Murphy, Department of Homeland Security  (PDF 3.4 MB)
9:45 - 10:15 am Break

10:15 - 11:15 am New Superconducting Power Equipment Projects
Moderator: Donald Geiling, NETL
  • Southwire-Entergy HTS Cable Project, David Lindsay, Southwire
    (PDF 440 KB)
  • 2G HTS Transmission Cable for Installation in the Long Island Power Grid, Larry Masur, AMSC  (PDF 1.3 MB)
  • Development and In-Grid Demonstration of a Transmission Voltage Fault Current Limiter, Alex Malozemoff, AMSC  (PDF 501 KB)
  • Saturable Reactor High Temperature Superconducting Fault Current Limiter, Woody Gibson, SC Power Systems  (PDF 1.8 MB)
  • 138kV YBCO Based Fault Current Limiter Demonstration, Charles Weber, SuperPower   (PDF 627 KB)
11:15 – 11:45 am Laboratory Overviews
Ken Marken, LANL (PDF 881 KB) and Dominic Lee, ORNL  (PDF 1.8 MB)

11:45 am - 1:00 pm Luncheon Speaker: The Role of Superconductivity in the Overall Climate Change Technology Portfolio
Paul Grant, W2AGZ   (Washington Ballroom)
(PDF 2.1 MB)

1:00 pm Commence Annual Peer Review


JOINT 2nd GENERATION WIRE and
STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION
(Crystal Ballroom A)

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS SESSION
(Crystal Ballroom B)

Session Moderator: Debbie Haught, US DOE Session Moderator: Paul Bakke US DOE-Golden
1:00 - 2:25 pm

Scale Up of 2G Wire Manufacturing at American Superconductor(60+25)
Steve Fleshler, Alexis Malozemoff, and Martin Rupich (AMSC)
Presentation (PDF 2.1 MB)
Summary (PDF 42 KB)

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Strategic Dielectric R&D for HTS and Other OE Applications (45+15)
Enis Tuncer (ORNL), Mike Gouge (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 5.8 MB)
Summary (PDF 53 KB)

2:00 - 2:30 pm

DOE Readiness Review Program (20+10)
Mike Gouge (ORNL), Steven Ashworth (LANL), Paul Bakke (DOE-Golden)
Presentation (PDF 1.1 MB)
Summary (PDF 37 KB)

2:25 - 2:45 pm

Break

2:30 - 3:00 pm

Break

2:45 - 4:10 pm

Progress in Scale-up of 2G Conductor at SuperPower (60+25)
Venkat Selvamanickam, Yi-Yuan Xie, and Jodi Reeves (SuperPower)
Presentation (PDF 6.8 MB)
Summary (PDF 51 KB)

4:10 - 5:35 pm

Wire Development Group (60+25)
Martin Rupich (AMSC), Terry Holesinger (LANL), Dean Miller (ANL) and David Larbalestier (FSU)
Presentation (PDF 16.5 MB)
Summary (PDF 87 KB)

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Transmission Level HTS Fault Current Limiter (45+15)
Charles Weber and Drew Hazelton (SuperPower), Isidor Sauers (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 2.67 MB )
Summary (PDF 35 KB)

4:00 - 4:45 pm

AC Losses in Coated Conductors and Coils (30+15)
Steven Ashworth (LANL)
Presentation (PDF 1.6 MB)
Summary (PDF 49 KB)

5:35 pm

Joint 2nd Generation Wire Strategic Research Session
Adjourn for the Day

4:45 pm

Applications Session
Adjourn for the Day

5:40 - 7:00 pm  Reception (Potomac View Room, 14th Floor)


WEDNESDAY, August 8th – DAY TWO

7:30 - 8:30 am     Coffee & Bagels

2nd GENERATION WIRE SESSION
(Crystal Ballroom A)

STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION
(Washington Ballroom)

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS SESSION
(Crystal Ballroom B)

Session Moderator: Stephen Waslo US DOE-Chicago Session Moderator: Donald Geiling, NETL Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, NETL
8:30 - 9:50 am

ORNL-AMSC CRADA: Development of RABiTS-Based 2G Wire (60+20)
Amit Goyal and Mariappan Paranthaman (ORNL), Xiaoping Li (AMSC)
Presentation (PDF 8.8 MB)
Summary (PDF 44 KB)

8:30 - 10:00 am

Progress in Understanding Thickness Dependence and Vortex Pinning for Enhanced Coated Conductor Performance (60+30)
Leonardo Civale, Boris Maiorov, and Steve Foltyn (LANL)
Presentation (5.30 MB)
Summary (PDF 30 KB)

8:30 - 9:10 am

HTS Transformer R&D (30+10)
Ed Pleva (Waukesha), William Schwenterly (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 996 KB)
Summary (PDF 32 KB)

9:10 - 10:10 am

Development of Ultra-Efficient HTS Motor Systems (45+15)
Rich Schiferl (Baldor/Dodge/Reliance), Christopher Rey (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 767 KB)
Summary (PDF 67 KB)

9:50 - 10:15 am

Break

10:00 - 10:30 am

Break

10:00 - 10:30 am

Break

10:15 - 11:00 am

Coordinated Characterization of Coated Conductors: The American
Superconductor/Argonne CRADA
(30+15)
Wei Zhang (AMSC), Dean Miller and Vic Maroni (ANL)
Presentation (PDF 2.3 MB)
Summary (PDF 42 KB)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

AMSC-LANL CRADA: Multi-scale Characterization of Long-Length Coated Conductors (40+20)
Wei Zhang (AMSC), Boris Maiorov and Leonardo Civale (LANL)
Presentation (PDF 3.07 MB)
Summary (PDF 34 KB)

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Sustaining Innovation in Coated Conductors (IBAD template and co-evaporation) (60+30)
Vlad Matais (LANL), Paul Clem (SNL)
Presenation (PDF 8.52 MB) Summary (PDF 41 KB)

10:30 - 11:30 am

Development of a Pre-Commercial Long Length HTS Cable System Operating in a Power Transmission Grid (45+15)
James Maguire (AMSC), Frank Schmidt (Nexans), Tom Welsh (LIPA), Shawn Bratt (Air Liquide)
Presentation (PDF 3.3 MB)
Summary (PDF 46 KB)

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Luncheon (Potomac View Room, 14th Floor)

Session Moderator: Donald Geiling, NETL Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, NETL Session Moderator: Paul Bakke, US DOE - Golden
1:00 - 2:20 pm

ORNL-SuperPower CRADA: Development of MOCVD-based, IBAD-2G Wire (60+20)
Mariappan Paranthaman, Tolga Aytug and Amit Goyal (ORNL), Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower)
Presentation (PDF 11.6 MB)
Summary (PDF 52 KB)

2:20 - 3:05 pm

Coordinated Characterization of Coated Conductors: The SuperPower/Argonne CRADA (30+15)
Jodi Reeves (SuperPower), Dean Miller and Vic Maroni (ANL)
Presentation (PDF 8.3 MB)
Summary (PDF 40 KB)

1:00 - 1:30 pm

Enhancement of Jc in Thick MOD and Vapor Deposited Coatings Through Structure Improvement (20+10)
Solovyov Vyacheslav (BNL)
Presentation (PDF 15 MB)
Summary (PDF 47 KB)

1:30 - 2:50 pm

Performance Enhancement and Analysis of HTS Coatings (60+20)
Presentation (PDF 17.38 MB)
Dave Christen (ORNL), Roeland Feenstra (ORNL)
Summary (PDF 111 KB)

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Status Update for the Albany HTS Cable Project (45+15)
Presentation (PDF 2.84 MB)
Charles Weber (SuperPower) Shigeki Isojima (SEI)
Summary (PDF 37 KB)

2:00 - 3:00 pm

High Temperature Superconducting Power Cable, Columbus (45+15)
David Lindsay (Southwire), Jonathan Demko (ORNL), Michael Johnson (Praxair)
Presentation (PDF 2.0 MB)
Summary (PDF 53 KB)

3:05 - 3:35 pm

Break

2:50 - 3:20 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Adjourn Applications Session

3:35 - 4:35 pm

LANL-SuperPower CRADA: Multi-Scale Characterization and IBAD Template Development for High Performance MOCVD YBCO Coated Conductor Wires (40+20)
Terry Holesinger and Quanxi Jia, (LANL), Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower)
Presentation (PDF 8.2 MB)
Summary (PDF 33 KB)

3:20 - 4:05 pm

Electrodeposition of Stabilizer Layers and Buffer Layers for YBCO Coated Conductors (30+15)
Raghu Bhattacharya (NREL)
Presentation (PDF 7.06 MB)
Summary (PDF 41 KB)

4:05 - 4:55 pm

Phase Relations (40+10)
Winnie Wong and Lawrence Cook (NIST-Gaithersburg)
Summary (PDF 39 KB)

 
4:35 pm

2nd Generation Wire Session
Adjourn for Day

4:55 pm

Strategic Research Session
Adjourn for Day

 


THURSDAY, August 9th – DAY THREE

7:30 - 8:30 am     Coffee & Bagels

2nd GENERATION WIRE SESSION
(Crystal Ballroom A)

STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION
(Crystal Ballroom B)

Session Moderator: Debbie Haught, US DOE Session Moderator: Stephen Waslo US DOE-Chicago
8:30 - 9:30 am

Electromechanical Studies for Superconductor Development (45+15)
Danko van der Laan and Najib Cheggour (NIST-Boulder)
Presentation (PDF 1.3 MB)
Summary (PDF 45 KB)

9:30 - 10:15 am

Scale-up of Solution-Deposited Coated Conductors (30+15)
Paul Clem (SNL)
Presentation (PDF 1.7 MB)
Summary (PDF 43 KB)

8:30 - 9:30 am

Engineered Columnar Defects for Coated Conductors (45+15)
Amit Goyal (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 3 MB)
Summary (PDF 98 KB)

9:30 - 9:55 am

AC Loss and Stability Measurements on HTS Materials (15+10)
Sastry Pamidi (FSU)
Presentation (PDF 1.04 MB)
Summary (PDF 111 KB)

10:15 - 10:30 am

Break

9:55 - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 11:45 am

Conductor Design for HTS Applications (60+15)
Robert Duckworth (ORNL), Danko van der Laan and Najib Cheggour (NIST-Boulder)
Presentation (PDF 3.3 MB)
Summary (PDF 61 KB)

10:30 - 11:30 am

Strategic Substrate Development for Coated Conductors (45+15)
Amit Goyal and Mariappan Paranthaman (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 16.9 MB)
Summary (PDF 43 KB)

11:45 am

2G Wire Session Adjourns

11:30 am

Strategic Research Session Adjourns

11:45 - 12:15 pm

Highlight Summary - LANL/ORNL (Crystal Ballroom A)

  • FY2007 ORNL HTS Program Highlights
    Dominic Lee (ORNL) (PDF 3.1 MB)

  • Highlights of 2007 DOE Annual HTS Peer Review
    Dean Peterson (LANL) (PDF 1.7 MB)
12:15 – 1:15 pm

Lunch on your own

12:15 pm

Superconductivity Peer Review Meeting Adjourns

1:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Optional Roundtable Discussion on the Synergies of the Smart Grid and Superconductivity. (located in Crystal Ballroom A)

  • Synergies of the Smart Grid and Superconductivity
    Steve Pullins (NETL Modern Grid Initiative) (PDF 830 KB)

  • Smart Grid Characteristics of "Secure Super Grids™"
    Michael Ross (American Superconductor) (PDF 824 KB)
This moderated session started with two presentations that set the landscape for a Smart Grid. The presentations were followed by a brainstorming session on what role HTS can play in the nation's transition to a smart electricity grid. Speakers: Steve Pullins, Horizon Energy Group and Michael Ross, AMSC Power Systems