Superconducting light generator for large offshore wind turbines
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2014
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Offshore wind market demands higher power rate and reliable turbines in order to optimize capital and operational cost. These requests are difficult to overcome with conventional generator technologies due to a significant weight and cost increase with the scaling up. Thus superconducting materials appears as a prominent solution for wind generators, based on their capacity to held high current densities with very small losses, which permits to efficiently replace copper conductors mainly in the rotor field coils. However the state-of-the-art superconducting generator concepts still seem to be expensive and technically challenging for the marine environment. This paper describes a 10 MW class novel direct drive superconducting generator, based on MgB2 wires and a modular cryogen free cooling system, which has been specifically designed for the offshore wind industry needs.
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Sanz , S , Arlaban , T , Manzanas , R , Tropeano , M , Funke , R , Ková , P , Yang , Y , Neumann , H & Mondesert , B 2014 , ' Superconducting light generator for large offshore wind turbines ' , Journal of Physics: Conference Series , vol. 507 , no. PART 3 , 032040 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/507/3/032040