Johannes Büdel, Johannes Teigelkötter, Alexander Stock, Francesco Grilli, Tara Benkel, Jens Hänisch, Mayraluna Lao, Thomas Reis, Eva Berberich, Simon Wolfstädter, Christian Schneider, Paul Miller, Chloe Palmer, Bartek Glowacki, Vicente Climente-Alarcon, Anis Smara, Lukasz Tomkow, Loic Jeunesse, Martin Staempflin, Guillaume Delautre, Baptiste Zimmermann, Ruud van der Woude, Ana Perez, Sergey Samoilenkov, Alexander Molodyk, Enric Pardo, Milan Kapolka, Shuo Li, Anang Dadhich
- The European Union-funded Advanced Superconducting Motor Experimental Demonstrator (ASuMED) project started in May 2017 with the purpose of demonstrating the benefits of a new, fully superconducting motor for reaching the targets established by the Flightpath 2050 plan. The project aims at a motor power density of 20 kW kg−1 using
a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) stator. The rotor will use HTS stacks operating like permanent magnets. A highly efficient cryostat for the motor combined with an integrated cryogenic cooling system and associated power converter will be used. This article provides a general overview of the prototype that is currently being assembled and that will be tested soon.