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High Temperature Superconducting Cable for Railway System

Last updated on 12 September 2013 11:26

The authors design and develop a prototype DC superconducting cable for railways. For the preliminary evaluation 2 m Bi-2223 DC cable is used. The maximum current flowing in the cable cooled by liquid nitrogen was 1720 A in the inner sheet wire and 2430 A in the outer sheet. The...

Author(s): Masaru TOMITA;Kenji SUZUKI;Yusuke FUKUMOTO;Atsushi ISHIHARA;Tomoyuki AKASAKA;Yusuke KOBAYASHI

Organisation(s): Railway Technical Research Institute ;

2013

Japan

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