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The most obvious advantages of high temperature superconductors (HTSC) for power engineering applications would be the large gains in cooling efficiency, and based on cooling circuit simplicity, in reliability. It is confirmed by many studies, that e.g. power transmission cables or fault current limiters become only economically feasible at coolant temperatures of 77 K and higher. Turbogenerators and magnetic energy storage systems have already an application potential at 4 K cooling but the economic break even points in unit size decrease up to about one order of magnitude for 77 K cooling. Fusion power reactors with magnetic confinement would have an increase of the overall efficiency of about 2 percent points, if 77 K cooling for the magnets could be applied. Unfortunately, the development goals for HTSC conductors required for above mentioned applications are probably most demanding in comparison to other HTSC applications. It is therefore not surprising, that so far not many hardware projects are running.
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Komarek, P. (1993). HTSC Application in Power Engineering and Nuclear Fusion. In: Bando, Y., Yamauchi, H. (eds) Advances in Superconductivity V. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68305-6_268
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