Recent Main Events in Applied Superconductivity in China

Songtao Wu, Yu Wu, Yuntao Song, Weiyue Wu, Yanfang Bi, Weibin Xi, Liye Xiao, Qiuliang Wang, Yanwei Ma, Xianghong Liu, Pingxiang Zhang, Yin Xin, Bo Hou, Rui Liu, Hongjie Zhang, Zenghe Han, Jun Zheng, Jiasu Wang, Suyu Wang, Jing Shi, Yuejin Tang, Ming Qiu, Bin Wei, Yunfei Tan

Abstract—With strong support from China government bodies such as the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Basic Research Program of China, the field of applied superconductivity in China has been developed in different areas. Especially in the fusion application area, the first fully-superconducting tokamak, EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak), has been successfully constructed and commissioned in the last two years. Based on the requirement from the ITER project, high performance Bi-2223 HTS tape, and Nb₃Sn and NbTi strands have been developed as well. In the area of HTS applications for electric power systems, R&D has been focused on superconducting power cable, superconducting magnetic energy storage, superconducting transformer, superconducting fault current limiters. In this paper, the recent progresses in applied superconductivity in China are reported.

Index Terms—Superconductivity, EAST, ITER, HTS

Manuscript received 19 August 2008.
Songtao Wu was with Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, P.R. China and now is with ITER International Organization, Center de Cadarache, 13108 St. Paul-lez-Durance, France, phone: +33-4-42199824, fax:+33-4-42257261, (email: songtao.wu@iter.org).
Yu Wu, Yuntao Song, Weiyue Wu, Yanfang Bi, Weibin Xi and Yunfei Tan are with Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), Hefei, P. R. China (e-mail: wuyu@ipp.ac.cn, songyt@ipp.ac.cn).
Liye Xiao and Qiuliang Wang and Yanwei Ma are with Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Beijing, P. R. China, (e-mail: xiao@mail.iee.ac.cn, qiuliang@mail.iee.ac.cn).
Xianghong Liu, Pingxiang Zhang, are with Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research/Western Superconducting Technologies Co., Ltd. (NIN/WST), Xian, P. R. China, (e-mail: xhliu@c-nin.com) Rui Liu, Hongjie Zhang, Zenghe Han are with Innova Superconductor Technology Co., Ltd. (InnoST), Beijing, China, (e-mail: Liu.rui@innost.com).
Yin Xin, Bo Hou, are with Innopower Superconductor Cable Co., Ltd., (InnoPower), Beijing, P. R. China, (e-mail: yingxin@innopower.com)
Jun Zheng, Jiasu Wang, Suyu Wang are with the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory (ASCLab) of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China (email: jzheng@home.swjtu.edu.cn)
Jing Shi, Yuejin Tang is with the Electric Power System Dynamic Simulation Laboratory, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, P. R. China, (e-mail: shijing_hust@126.com)
Ming Qiu, Bin Wei are with China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI), Beijing, P. R. China, (e-mail: qiuming@epri.ac.cn)

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