About DEMO200


Based on knowledge and experience gained through previous projects a super conducting busbar system with 200.000 A DC will be further developed.

The functional efficiency of the following components which have to be developed predominantly will be demonstrated in a test stand:

  • modular current lead with 200.000 A
  • busbar system consisting of busbar elements with modular conductor structure
  • interface between current lead and busbar system

Additionally auxiliary equipment and the systems of the LN2 cooling circuit have to be integrated into system design and construction as well as sensor and control equipment and safety management. The development tasks contain extensive calculations of magnetic fields and current forces arrangement of super conducting tapes and optimized layout evaluation of electrical, thermal and construction data of all components.

All site components will be integrated into a 3D model in order to check critical geometric situations. Based on the 3D model all necessary documents will be produced for erection, commissioning and experimental operation. With this pilot it is possible to follow the operating conditions of the aluminium plant at Voerde. The elaborated design requirements which are mainly defined by the associated partner Trimet will be checked and verified during the test operation.

This development is planned to be a pure R&D project without direct industry application. Therefore this experimental set-up contains only components which are absolutely necessary. The required operating temperature of 70 K is provided by the project partner Messer using a new innovative concept.

A 200.000 A DC system can go beyond the range of the present physically limited HVDC transfer technology. The super conducting high DC technology offers the potential for energy efficient, ecological and economic energy transmission in the Gigawatt range with society acceptance.


STEERING COMMITTEE

Dr. Herzog

Messer Group GmbH


Mr. Krupp

TRIMET Aluminium SE


Prof. Dr. Noe

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology


Dr. Reiser

Vision Electric Super Conductors GmbH


ADVISORY BOARD

news

February 24, 2022

Advanced Function Testing

After a successful subscale test, the next step of the project is the preparation of additional tests for the common functioning of different components. That includes […]
November 24, 2021

Subscale test successfully at KIT

A subscale with two of the ten modules was built and successfully testet. The modules connected in series are the same length as in DEMO200 (2.5 […]
June 22, 2021

11. Braunschweiger Supraleiterseminar

Prof. Mathias Noe, Director of the Insitute for Technical Physics at the KIT, presents the progress on the DEMO 200 project at the 11. Braunschweiger Supraleiterseminar. […]
March 4, 2021

DEMO200 in the spotlight of INDUSTRIE ENERGIEFORSCHUNG

Superconductors in the aluminium industry Industrie Energieforschung reports on DEMO200 Here is the complete article (German): Supraleitendes Hochstromsystem überträgt verlustfrei 200.000 Ampere Gleichstrom
January 10, 2020

Design elaboration – obstacles and solutions

The project team met in Karlsruhe several times to elaborate the design of the current lead and the busbar. A feasible solutions seems to be near: […]
October 2, 2019

The first technical project meeting took place in Kaiserslautern

The main part of the meeting was the discussion about the arrangement of the superconductors in the 200 kA busbar. Different concepts were simulated on the […]