Emerging Trends in Superconductivity for Electric Power Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Superconductivity, since its discovery in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, has a history of over 100 years but still remains a challenging and unknown field. Superconducting technology, as a forward-looking and disruptive technology, provides technological innovation for the development of many engineering application fields such as power, energy, medical, and transportation. Superconducting power technology is becoming one of the most promising technologies in the field of power technology, and in the near future, it will bring the development of power technology into a new era. Global researchers have utilized the zero-resistance and high-current-density characteristics of superconducting materials to achieve efficient, low-loss, and environmentally friendly power transmission, distribution, and storage, such as superconducting cable, superconducting current limiter, superconducting wind power generation, superconducting transformer, superconducting energy storage, magnetic confinement fusion, etc., leading to the development of more flexible and compact electrical equipment and a state-of-the-art power system.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances and emerging trends related to the theory, design, modeling, and application of all types of superconducting electric power equipment.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

All aspects of superconducting motors/generators, superconducting wind turbine generators, superconducting phase-shifting machines, superconducting DC dynamos, superconducting motor/generator technologies for more electric aircraft, electric vehicles, and electric ships.

• Superconducting cable and energy pipeline.
• Superconducting energy storage.
• Superconducting smart grid.
• Superconducting current limiter.
• Superconducting transformer.
• Superconducting magnet.
• The novel applications of superconducting electric equipment.
• Optimal design methodologies.
• Advanced modeling approaches.
• Thermal and mechanical analyses.

Prof. Dr. Yujia Zhai
Prof. Dr. Jianhua Liu
Guest Editors

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• superconducting power technology
• emerging trends in applied superconductivity
• superconducting magnet
• new applications
• modeling
• design