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Tuesday, July 29th – Day One
7:30 am Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Welcome – Program Overview and Purpose of Peer Review
Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE Program Manager, Superconductivity for Electric Systems
8:40 am Opening Remarks
Kevin Kolevar, Assistant Secretary, U.S. DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
9:00 am DOD Perspectives
Lynn Petersen, Office of Naval Research
Presentation: (PDF 4.0 MB)
9:30 am Utility Value Propositions for HTS Cables and Fault Current Limiters
Steven Tobias, Navigant Consulting
Presentation: (PDF 946 KB)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Global Progress in HTS
  • China Update, Dean Peterson, LANL
    Presentation: (PDF 3.45 MB)
  • Japan Update, Yutaka Yamada, SRL-ISTEC
    Presentation: (PDF 2.5 MB)
  • European Update, Xavier Obradors, ICMAB
    Presentation: (PDF 5.3 MB)
11:30 am Testing of T&D Power Equipment
Brian Marchionini, Energetics Incorporated
Presentation: (PDF 735 KB)
12:00 pm Luncheon
Joint 2nd Generation Wire and Strategic Research Session (Held in Salon 4)
Session Moderator : Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE
1:30 pm Progress in Scale-up of 2G HTS Wire at SuperPower (60+30)
Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower), Y. Xie (SuperPower)
Presentation: (PDF 5.83 MB)
Summary: (PDF 40 KB)
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Scale-up of 2G HTS Wire Manufacturing at American Superconductor (60+30)
Alex Malozemoff, Martin Rupich, Angelo Santamaria (AMSC)
Presentation: (PDF 3.6 MB)
Summary: (PDF 30 KB)
5:00 pm Adjourn for the Day
5:15 pm Poster Session – with cash bar and light appetizers

Wednesday, July 30th – Day Two

7:00 am Continental Breakfast
2nd GENERATION WIRE SESSION
(Salon 4)
Session Moderator: Donald Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL
8:00 am LANL/AMSC CRADA (45+15)
Terry Holesinger, Yates Coulter (LANL) and Marty Rupich (AMSC)
Summary: (PDF 34 KB)
9:00 am ANL/AMSC CRADA: Characterization of 2G Conductors (45+15)
Dean Miller and Victor Maroni (ANL), Marty Rupich (AMSC)
Presentation: (PDF 3.4 MB)
Summary: (PDF 19 KB)
10:00 am Break
10:15 am ORNL/AMSC CRADA: Development of RABiTS-based 2G Wire (55+20)
Amit Goyal and Parans Paranthaman (ORNL), Marty Rupich (AMSC)
Presentation: (PDF 9.2 MB)
Summary: (PDF 28 KB)
11:30 am Long Length Characterization (20+10)
Yates Coulter and Jeff Willis (LANL)
Presentation: (PDF 681 KB)
Summary: (PDF 29 KB)
12:00 pm Luncheon
Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, U.S. DOE-NETL
1:00 pm ORNL/SuperPower CRADA: Development of MOCVD-based, IBAD-2G wire (55+20)
Parans Paranthaman, Tolga Aytug and Amit Goyal (ORNL) and Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower)
Presentation: (PDF 9.0 MB)
Summary: (PDF 37 KB)
2:15 pm ANL/SuperPower CRADA: Characterization of 2G Conductors (45+15)
Dean Miller and Victor Maroni (ANL) and Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower)
Presentation: (PDF 1.4 MB)
Summary: (PDF 22 KB)
3:15 pm Break
Session Moderator: Donald Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL
3:30 pm LANL/SuperPower CRADA (45+15)
Leonardo Civale (LANL) and Venkat Selvamanickam (SuperPower)
Summary: (PDF 25 KB)
4:30 pm Characterization of Dielectric Materials Under Cryogenic Conditions (20+10)
Horatio Rodrigo (FSU-CAPS)
Presentation: (PDF 12.5 MB)
Summary: (PDF 18 KB)
5:00 pm 2nd Generation Wire Session Adjourns for the Day
STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION
(Salon 5)
Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, U.S. DOE-NETL
8:00 am Strategic Substrate Development for Coated Conductors (45+15)
Amit Goyal and Parans Paranthaman (ORNL)
Presentation: (PDF 6.6 MB)
Summary: (PDF 28 KB)
9:00 am Coated Conductor Template Research (45+15)
Vlad Matias and Quanxi Jia (LANL)
Summary: (PDF 22 KB)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am HTS Coated Conductor Characterization and Analysis (45+15)
David Christen (ORNL)
Presentation: (PDF 4.5 MB)
Summary: (PDF 63 KB)
11:30 am AC Loss Measurements on HTS Materials (20+10)
Sastry Pamidi (FSU-CAPS)
Summary: (PDF 25 KB)
12:00 pm Luncheon
Session Moderator: Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE
1:00 pm Progress in Understanding Vortex Pinning for Enhanced Coated Conductor Performance (55+20)
Leonardo Civale, Matthew Feldmann and Boris Maiorov, (LANL)
Summary: (PDF 22 KB)
2:15 pm Engineered Columner Defects for Coated Conductors (45+15) Amit Goyal (ORNL)
Presentation: (PDF 6.6 MB)
Summary: (PDF 30 KB)
3:15 pm Break
Session Moderator: Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE
3:40 pm Raising Performance of 2G Wires Through Improved Nucleation of YBCO on Technical Oxide Buffers (25+10)
Slowa Solovyov (BNL)
Presentation: (PDF 13.7 MB)
Summary: (PDF 68 KB)
4:15 pm Progress in Reactive Co- Evaporation on IBAD (30+15)
Vladimir Matias (LANL)
Presentation: (PDF 1.5 MB)
Summary: (PDF 20 KB)
5:00 pm Strategic Research Session Adjourns for Day
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS SESSION
(Salon 6)
Session Moderator: Paul Bakke, U.S. DOE-Golden
8:00 am Readiness Review (20+10)
Mike Gouge (ORNL), Steve Ashworth (LANL) and Paul Bakke (DOE-Golden)
Presentation (PDF 773 KB)
Summary: (PDF 22 KB)
8:30 am Strategic Dielectric R&D for HTS and other OE applications (45+15)
Isidor Sauers and Enis Tuncer (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 3.8 MB)
Summary: (PDF 26 KB)
9:30 am HTS Transformer Technology (20+10)
Bill Schwenterly (ORNL) and Ed Pleva (Waukesha)
Presentation (PDF 2.2 MB)
Summary: (PDF 23 KB)
10:00 am Break
10:15 am SBIR Phase 2 Project - Large Capacity Cryocooler for High Temperature Superconductor Applications (20+10)
Songgang Qiu (Infinia Corporation )
Presentation (PDF 1.3 MB)
Summary: (PDF 12 KB)
10:45 am SBIR Phase 2 Project on Acoustic-Stirling Cryocooler (20+10)
John Corey (CFIC-Qdrive)
Presentation (PDF 9.4 MB)
Summary: (PDF 27 KB)
11:15 am LANL Advanced Cable Research (30+15)
Steve Ashworth (LANL)
Presentation (PDF 16.5 MB)
Summary: (PDF 34 KB)
12:00 pm Luncheon
Session Moderator: Donald Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL
1:00 pm Status Update for the Albany HTS Cable Project (30+15)
Chuck Weber (SuperPower), Hiroyasu Yumura (SEI)
Presentation (PDF 1.7 MB)
Summary: (PDF 19 KB)
1:45 pm High-Temperature Superconducting Power Cable (55+20)
David Knoll (Southwire Co./Ultera), Jonathan Demko (ORNL), Isidor Sauers (ORNL) , Greg Henzler (Praxair)
Presentation (PDF 3.5 MB)
Summary: (PDF 30 KB)
3:00 pm Break
Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, U.S. DOE-NETL
3:15 pm LIPA I (45+15)
Jim Maguire (AMSC), Frank Schmidt (Nexans), Tom Welsh (LIPA), Shawn Bratt (Air Liquide)
Presentation (PDF 4.4 MB)
Summary: (PDF 24 KB)
4:15 pm LIPA II (30+15)
Jim Maguire (AMSC), Frank Schmidt (Nexans), Tom Welsh (LIPA), Shawn Bratt (Air Liquide)
Presentation (PDF 4.0 MB)
Summary: (PDF 25 KB)
5:00 pm Applications Session Adjourns for Day

Thursday, July 31st – Day Three

7:00 am Continental Breakfast
2nd GENERATION WIRE SESSION
(Salon 4)
Session Moderator: Debbie Haught, U.S. DOE
8:00 am Conductor Design for HTS Applications (55+20)
Robert Duckworth (ORNL)
Presentation: (PDF 1.7 MB)
Summary: (PDF 23 KB)
9:15 am Scale-up of All-Solution Deposited Coated Conductors (30+15)
Paul Clem (SNL)
Summary: (PDF 29 KB)
10:00 am Break
Session Moderator: Paul Bakke, U.S. DOE-Golden
10:20 am Electromechanical Studies for Superconductor Development (40+15)
Danko van der Laan and Najib Cheggour (NIST-Boulder)
Presentation: (PDF 9.8 MB)
Summary: (PDF 28 KB)
2G Wire Session Adjourns
STRATEGIC RESEARCH SESSION
(Salon 5)
Session Moderator: Donald Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL
8:00 am A.C. Losses of HTS (30+15)
Steve Ashworth (LANL)
Presentation: (PDF 2.42 MB)
Summary: (PDF 27 KB)
8:45 am Optimization of RBCO Nucleation in Fluoride-Precursor ex situ Processing (30+10)
Ron Feenstra (ORNL), Dean Miller (ANL)
Presentation: (PDF 7.2 MB)
Summary: (PDF 74 KB)
9:25 am Non-Vacuum Deposition of Buffer Layers and SuperPower CRADA (30 + 10)
Raghu Bhattacharya (NREL)
Presentation: (PDF 14.6 MB)
Summary: (PDF 78 KB)
10:05 am Break
Session Moderator: John Yankeelov, U.S. DOE-Idaho
10:25 am Current Limiting Mechanism Studies of Coated Conductors (40+15)
David Larbalestier, Dmytr Abraimov and Eric Hellstrom (FSU)
Summary: (PDF 85 KB)
Strategic Research Session Adjourns
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS SESSION
(Salon 6)
Session Moderator: Mario Sciulli, U.S. DOE-NETL
8:00 am Transmission Level High Temperature Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (45+15)
Drew Hazelton (SuperPower), Juan Carlos Llambes (SuperPower), and Isidor Sauers (ORNL)
Presentation (PDF 1.3 MB)
Summary: (PDF 21 KB)
9:00 am Development and In-Grid Demonstration of a Transmission Voltage SuperLimiterTM Fault Current Limiter (45+15)
Bruce Gamble (AMSC), Syed Ahmed (SCE), Heinz-Werner Neumüller (Siemans), Frank Schmidt (Nexans)
Presentation (PDF 5.5 MB)
Summary: (PDF 33 KB)
10:00 am Break
Session Moderator: Donald Geiling, U.S. DOE-NETL
10:20 am Zenergy's Fault Current Limiter (45+15)
Frank Darmann, Robert Lambaerde (Zenergy)
Presentation (PDF 3.7 MB)
Summary: (PDF 27 KB)
Applications Session Adjourns
11:25 am Highlight Summary – ORNL/LANL (Held in Salon 4)
  • ORNL HTS Program Highlights, Dominic Lee (ORNL)
    Presentation (PDF 1.3 MB)
  • LANL HTS Program Highlights, Ken Marken (LANL)
    Presentation (PDF 1.14 MB)
11:45 am Adjourn HTS Peer Review
11:45 am Lunch on your own
1:00 pm DOE/EPRI Fault Current Limiter Testing Roundtable and EPRI Superconductivity Program Meeting

Thursday, July 31st – DOE/EPRI Fault Current Limiter Testing Roundtable and EPRI Superconductivity Program Meeting

1:00 pm Welcome Steve Eckroad and Debbie Haught
1:15 pm Review of CIGRE Activities and Plans
Presentation (PDF 256 KB)		 Heinz-Neumueller
1:45 pm Summary results from EPRI Workshops
Presentation (PDF 201 KB)		 Bill Hassenzahl
2:00 pm Discussion of draft T&D testing report Discussion of Next steps
Brian Marchionini and Marcus Young
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm EPRI Superconductivity Program Meeting
Presentation (PDF 318 KB)		 Steve Eckroad
Superconducting Power Cables, Tech Watch 2008.
Presentation (PDF 2.4 MB)		 Marcus Young
5:30 pm Adjourn