Fiscal Year	2021
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Physics
Investigator(s)	McNab, Ian
Sponsor	Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary	An evaluation will be undertaken into the relevance and importance of recent advances in the field of high temperature superconductivity (HTS) by the national and international commercial and academic communities in the light of their potential for US Naval applications. Improvements in superconducting materials, cryogenic technology, usable concepts, and auxiliary components, will be considered. This assessment will allow scientific and/or technical short-comings and needed developments to be identified. At-sea requirements such as mass, volume and envelope constraints will be considered, as well as estimated investment and operating costs. The study will then identify the preferred technology developments needed to improve the present state-of-the-art to reach an initial feasibility demonstration for a naval superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) application. The study will identify priorities for naval investment so that an expeditious path towards future fleet insertion can be followed. Additional potential HTS naval applications will also be identified. This study will not evaluate multiple energy storage applications; such a comparison is beyond the scope of this effort.
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