£1.3M grant to develop pioneering superconducting electrical machines for zero emission aviation
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November 22, 2022
A Strathclyde researcher has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council starting grant for a five-year project to electrify aircraft using a novel superconducting machine technology.
Professor Min Zhang, from the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory, will focus on three ground-breaking technologies to enable the use of high temperature superconductors for electrical propulsion motors with high performance and reliability.
A superconductor is a substance which offers no resistance to the electric current when it becomes colder than a critical temperature
By the end of the “Superconducting Electrical Machines for Zero Emission Aviation”, or SUPERMAN, project, a 100 kW demonstrating motor will be developed and tested for aviation propulsion systems – the machine that produces thrust to push an object forward.
