CHAPTER 4

POWER SYSTEMS -- OTHER APPLICATIONS

WHAT ARE "OTHER APPLICATIONS"?

Five topics complete the discussion of power applications of high temperature superconductors (HTS). Two of these, flywheels and fault-current limiters, are utility applications of superconductivity. Two, HTS leads and high field magnets, are non-utility, large-scale applications whose development will strongly impact the technology of utility applications. The final topic is cryogenic refrigeration, the development of which has a strong technological and economic impact on the application of HTS to utility problems.