EUROTAPES: superconductors to improve energy efficiency in Europe
Research on superconducting materials could allow the distribution of electricity throughout Europe with minimal losses. In the future, electric highways could be built using lower voltages than current DC-based ones. The challenge now is to reduce the production costs of these materials.
Eurotapes, one of the most important projects in Europe about superconductivity, today presented its findings in Barcelona, after 4 years of research. The project has obtained excellent results to develop industrial applications, such as the manufacture of superconducting tape. These applications are useful for multiple areas of science such as the manufacture of magnets for elevated magnetic fields, wind generators or electrical systems for aeronautics.
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Final Meeting of EUROTAPES project in Barcelona
EUROTAPES project is coming to an end in February 2017 and the project consortium is meeting in Barcelona on the 13th-15th of this month to present their final results. After 54 months of research, the project will be closing as it has achieved its objectives. The Eurotapes project has managed to produce 600 meters of superconducting tape with a process that reduces the cost of production of superconducting materials, simplifies its architecture and improves its capacity in high magnetic fields through various temperature scales.
48M Consortium Meeting in Karlsruhe
The 48M consortium meeting of EUROTAPES will take place on the 4th-6th of October in Karlsruhe (Germany) hosted by the KIT (Karlruhe Insititute of Technology).
Participants will discuss scientific activities such as high througput, scaling and nanocomposites but also quality control and life cycle approach. In the end, management, financial and dissemination aspects will be discussed.
Review of Exhibition at Industrial Technologies 2016
From the 22nd to 24th of June 2016, Eurotapes exhibited at Industrial Technologies 2016 at the RAI in Amsterdam represented by LEITAT. The project had a booth (nº15) there to exhibit latest research activities in the field of superconductors. This event, as it is one of the most important in the field of technologiesa and innovation at European level, was a great occasion to disseminate results and show the innovation capacity of the consortium but also to develop further collaborative projects. Below two pictures of LEITAT team during the exhibition.
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