High Temperature Superconductivity Program Peer Review
August 4-6, 2009

Agenda

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Tuesday, August 4 – Day One
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 8:40 am	Welcome – Program Overview and Purpose of Peer Review Debbie Haught, U.S. Department of Energy Program Manager, Superconductivity for Electric Systems
8:40 am - 9:00 am	Opening Remarks Patricia Hoffman, Acting Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
9:00 am - 9:20 am	HTS FCL Update – Task Force and Testing Requirements Mischa Steuer, Florida State University Center for Advanced Power Systems PDF 256 KB
9:20 am - 9:40 am	DHS – Project Hydra Cable Sarah Mahmood, Department of Homeland Security PDF 1.99 MB
9:40 am - 10:00 am	HTS Cable Update – Standards Development David Lindsay, Southwire PDF 526 KB
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am	HTS Value Propositions for Utility Applications Hector Artze, Navigant Consulting PDF 1.09 MB
11:00 am - 11:45 am	Center for Emergent Superconductivity George Crabtree, Argonne National Lab PDF 5.86 MB
11:45 am - 1:15 pm	Luncheon
JOINT 2nd GENERATION WIRE and STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION
Session Moderator : Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE
1:15 pm - 2:35 pm American Superconductor’s 2G Wire Technology (55+25) Steven Fleshler and Marty Rupich(AMSC) PDF 2.12 MB Summary PDF 94 KB
2:35 pm - 2:50 pm Break
2:50 pm - 4:10 pm Progress in SuperPower’s 2G HTS Wire Development Program (55+25) Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower), Y. Xie (SuperPower), John Dackow (SuperPower) PDF 7.06 MB Summary PDF 90 KB
4:10 pm Wire Development Group (55+25) Marty Rupich (AMSC) PDF 9.79 MB Summary PDF 176 KB
Adjourn for the Day
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Poster Session – with cash bar and light appetizers

Wednesday, August 5 – Day Two

7:00 am

Continental Breakfast

2nd GENERATION WIRE SESSION	STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION	SUPERCONDUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS SESSION
Session Moderator: Don Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL	Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, U.S. DOE-NETL	Session Moderator: Gil Bindewald, U.S. DOE
8:00 am – 9:15 am ORNL/AMSC CRADA: Development of RABiTS-based 2G Wire (55+20) Amit Goyal and Parans Paranthaman (ORNL), Marty Rupich (AMSC) Summary PDF 113KB PDF 6.95 MB 9:15 am – 10:00 am LANL/STI CRADA: Progress in Reactive Co-Evaporation on IBAD (30+15) Vladimir Matias (LANL) and Brian Moeckly (STI) Summary PDF 51 KB PDF 2.69 MB	8:00 am – 9:00 am Current Limiting Mechanism Studies of Coated Conductors (45+15) David Larbalestier, Dmytro Abraimov and Eric Hellstrom (FSU) Summary PDF 101 KB PDF 12 MB 9:00 am –10:00 am HTS Coated Conductor Characterization and Analysis (45+15) David Christen and James Thompson (ORNL), Alex Gurevich (FSU) Summary PDF 57 KB PDF 3.85 MB	8:30 am – 9:00 am Readiness Review of SPE Projects (20+10) Mike Gouge (ORNL), Steve Ashworth (LANL) Summary PDF 37 KB PDF 379 KB 9:00 am – 10:00 am LANL Advanced Cable Research (45+15) Steve Ashworth (LANL) Summary PDF 94 KB PDF 8.84 MB
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break	10:00 am – 10:30 am Break	10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 12:00 am LANL/AMSC CRADA (60+30) Terry Holesinger (LANL) and Marty Rupich (AMSC) Summary PDF 62 KB PDF 2.69 MB	10:30 am – 11:10 am Raising Performance of 2G Wires Through Improved Nucleation of YBCO on Technical Oxide Buffers (30+10) Slowa Solovyov (BNL) Summary PDF 87 KB PDF 4.2 MB 11:10 am – 11:40 am AC Loss Measurements on HTS Materials (20+10) Sastry Pamidi (FSU-CAPS) Summary PDF 54 KB	10:30 am – 11:30 am Strategic Dielectric R&D for HTS and other OE Applications (45+15) Isidor Sauers and Enis Tuncer (ORNL) Summary PDF 52 KB PDF 5.80 MB 11:30 am – 12:00 pm Characterization of Dielectric Materials Under Cryogenic Conditions (20+10) Horatio Rodrigo (FSU-CAPS) Summary PDF 16 KB PDF 1.36 MB
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Luncheon
Session Moderator: Brian Marchionini, Energetics	Session Moderator: Gil Bindewald, U.S. DOE	Session Moderator: Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm MOCVD-based, IBAD-2G wire (55+20) Tolga Aytug, Parans Paranthaman and Amit Goyal (ORNL) and Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower) Summary PDF 51 KB PDF 8.56 MB 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Scale-up of All-Solution Deposited Coated Conductors (30+15) Paul Clem and Dan Wesolowski (SNL) Summary PDF 54 KB	1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Coated Conductor Template Research (40+20) Vladimir Matias and Quanxi Jia (LANL) Summary PDF 17 KB PDF 3.23 MB 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Understanding and Minimizing A.C. losses (30+15) Steve Ashworth (LANL) Summary PDF 93 KB PDF 908 KB	1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AMSC’s Fault Current Limiter (45+15) Bruce Gamble, AMSC; Wolfgang Schmidt, Siemens Summary PDF 13 KB PDF 1.43MB 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm High-Temperature Superconducting Power Cable (45+15) David Lindsay (Southwire Co./Ultera), Jonathan Demko and Isidor Sauers (ORNL) Summary PDF 22 KB PDF 3.56 MB
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break	2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Break	3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break
Session Moderator: Don Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL	Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, U.S. DOE-NETL	Session Moderator: Gil Bindewald, U.S. DOE
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm LANL/SuperPower CRADA (60+30) Leonardo Civale, Terry Holesinger (LANL) and SuperPower Summary PDF 53 KB PDF 3.51 MB	3:15 pm – 3:55 pm Non-Vacuum Deposition of Buffer Layers and SuperPower CRADA (30+10) Raghu Bhattacharya (NREL) and Yi-Yuan Xie (SuperPower) Summary PDF 60 KB PDF 11.42 MB 3:55 pm – 4:55 pm Strategic Substrate Development for Coated Conductors (45+15) Amit Goyal and Parans Paranthaman (ORNL) Summary PDF 54 KB PDF 3.49 MB	3:30 pm – 4:10 pm HTS Transformer R&D: Waukesha Electric Systems/ORNL (30+10) Bill Schwenterly (ORNL) and Ed Pleva (Waukesha) Summary PDF 76 KB PDF 1.53 MB 4:10 pm – 4:40 pm SBIR Project on Acoustic-Stirling Cryocooler (20+10) John Corey (CFIC-Qdrive) Summary PDF 31 KB PDF 9.39 MB
5:00 pm 2nd Generation Wire Session Adjourns for the Day	4:55 pm Strategic Research Session Adjourns for Day	4:40 pm Applications Session Adjourns for Day
6:30 pm Optional No-Host Dinner

Thursday, August 6 – Day Three

7:00 am

Continental Breakfast

2nd GENERATION WIRE SESSION	STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION	SUPERCONDUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS SESSION
Session Moderator: Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE	Session Moderator: Gil Bindewald, U.S. DOE	Session Moderator: Don Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL
8:00 am – 9:00 am ANL/AMSC CRADA: Characterization of 2G Conductors (45+15) Dean Miller and Victor Maroni (ANL), Marty Rupich (AMSC) Summary PDF 57 KB PDF 23.79 MB 9:00 am – 10:00 am ANL/SuperPower CRADA: Characterization of 2G Conductors (45+15) Dean Miller and Victor Maroni (ANL) and Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower) Summary PDF 52 KB PDF 37.91 MB	8:00 am – 9:20 am Engineered Defects for Coated Conductors (60+20) Amit Goyal (ORNL) Summary PDF 88 KB PDF 4.30 MB 9:20 am – 10:00 am Long Length Characterization (30+10) Yates Coulter or Jeff Willis (LANL) Summary PDF 18 KB PDF 800 KB	8:30 am – 9:00 am Update on SuperPower’s 2G SFCL Module Development (20+10) Drew Hazelton and Juan Carlos Llambes (SuperPower) Summary PDF 46 KB PDF 666 KB 9:00 am – 10:00 am Zenergy’s Fault Current Limiter (45+15) Franco Moriconi (Zenergy) Summary PDF 62 KB PDF 7.06 MB
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break	10:00 am – 10:30 am Break	10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
Session Moderator: Brian Marchionini, Energetics	Session Moderator: Don Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL	Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, U.S. DOE-NETL
10:15 am – 11:15 am Electromechanical Studies for Superconductor Development (45+15) Danko van der Laan (NIST-Boulder) Summary PDF 55 KB PDF 1.95 MB 11:15 am – 12:15 pm Conductor Design for HTS Applications (45+15) Robert Duckworth and Yifei Zhang (ORNL) Summary PDF 53 KB PDF 1.43 MB	10:30 am – 12:00 am Strategic Materials Development for Coated Conductor Performance (60+30) Leonardo Civale, Boris Maiorov, Matt Feldmann, Terry Holesinger (LANL) Summary PDF 73 KB PDF 10.99 MB	10:30 am – 12:00 pm LIPA Cable Projects (60+30) Jim Maguire (AMSC), Frank Schmidt (Nexans), Tom Welsh (LIPA), Shawn Bratt (Air Liquide) Summary PDF 61 KB PDF 1.93 MB
2G Wire Session Adjourns	Strategic Research Session Adjourns	Applications Session Adjourns
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Luncheon with Speakers 1:00 pm – 1:40 pm Highlight Summary – ORNL/LANL FY 2009 Applications Highlights Mike Gouge (ORNL) FY2009 ORNL HTS Program Dominic Lee (ORNL) FY2009 LANL HTS Program Highlights Ken Marken (LANL)
Adjourn HTS Peer Review
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Laboratory Testing Facility Roundtable 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Presentations by laboratory representatives Mischa Steurer, Florida State University - CAPS PDF 860 KB PDF 1.57 MB (Fink, Noe) Jeff Hildreth, Bonneville Power Administration PDF 837 KB Jeff Willis, Los Alamos National Laboratory PDF 1.17 MB Mike Gouge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory PDF 1.52 MB Luciano Martini, CESI PDF 445 KB 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Open discussion 3:30 pm Adjourn Testing Facility Roundtable
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Break
3:45 pm – 5:30 pm	EPRI Superconductivity Program Meeting Power Delivery Applications of Superconductivity Program 38D Program Update PDF 384 KB EPRI Educational Efforts in Superconductivity Technology Watch Guide for 2009 PDF 771 KB Superconductivity Program Strategic Planning PDF 108 KB Record of Strategic Planning Session: “Future Statements” PDF 44 KB Meeting Minutes PDF 19 KB

Poster Session Topics
	Title	Organization	Type of Project
1	Acoustic-Stirling Cyrocooler (display)	CFIC-Qdrive	SBIR Phase II (DOE)
2	AC Loss Reduction in Coated Conductors	UES	FY08 SBIR (DOE)
3	Rugged Low Heat Leak Cryogenic Seals and Electrical Quick Disconnects	Creare	SBIR (DOD)
4	Application of Fault Current Detection and Limiting Technology on Electrical Distribution Systems for Naval Ships	Creare	SBIR (DOD)
5	High Reliability Low Maintenance Cryocooler for HTS Motor/Generator	Creare	SBIR (DOD)
6	Degaussing Systems for Navy Ships	Tai-Yang Research Company	SBIR (DOD)
7	Ultra-Fast MOCVD Growth of Highly Textured YBCO Films for Coated Conductors	Metal Oxide Technologies Inc.	SBIR (DOE)
8	High-Performance Dielectric Materials for HTS Systems	Composite Technology Development, Inc.	SBIR Phase II (DOE)
9	Development and Demonstration of A New, Low Cost Ic(B, Angle) Measurement System	LANL	National Laboratory
10	Progress in applications using MgB2 Superconductors for power and medical applications (SFCL, motor/generator, MRI, undulators, cables, transformers)	Hyper Tech Research Inc	SBIR Phase II (DOE)
11	LANL/STI CRADA	Superconductor Technologies Inc.	LANL CRADA

SBIR = Small Business Innovation Research

August 4-6, 2009

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