SUPERCONDUCTORS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
While superconductor technology offers an array of applications, SUBRA is committed to a sustainable future and being a key player in the climate solution. All our products and technologies are developed with this goal in mind. Our solutions directly target four of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and will have knock-on effects that aid the progress towards others.
With the help of superconductor technology, fusion power will provide near limitless clean energy. Our SUBRACABLE for superconducting power grids will further improve the efficiency and affordability of the energy supply.
High temperature superconducting tapes can help a great number of industries become more sustainable and efficient thanks to their high current capacity, low energy consumption, high strength, and compactness.
Superconducting cables will have many applications in the sustainable cities of the future. Thanks to a significantly smaller footprint and a lack of heat and EMF emissions, superconducting cables integrate seamlessly into our communities.
Not only do we develop all our technologies and products with the ultimate goal of contributing to the climate solution, we are also proud to use only 100% certified green electricity at our facilities.
APPLICATION AREAS
Fusion power
Fusion reactors based on magnetic confinement rely on incredibly powerful, precise, and efficient magnets to be able to smash atoms together in just the right way to cause them to fuse into heavier elements and release energy. High temperature superconductors offer the premier solution for creating these magnets, thanks to the high field-strengths achievable and the lack of heating in the conductor under the immense currents required.
Superconducting power grid
SUBRACABLE will provide the game changing solution for ramping up a pan-European energy grid. Connecting renewable power sources, wind turbines and solar panels with the end-user can be achieved using low energy-consumption superconducting power cables and transformers. High temperature superconductor tape solutions have already been demonstrated in both electrical transformer stations and key distribution grid points – SUBRACABLE will enable full grid implementation.
Supermagnets for hydrogen liquefaction
Magnetocaloric cooling offers the most efficient way of cooling hydrogen down to liquid temperatures, and high temperature superconductors make the strongest and most compact magnetocaloric cooling systems. Through designing superconducting magnets for hydrogen liquefaction systems, SUBRA is paving the way for a new generation of liquid fuels, in collaboration with leading European partners.
Supermagnets for MRI
High energy research
The particle accelerator at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, consists of numerous superconducting magnets that ensure precise positional control of the injected particle beam during travel in the ring. Future circular colliders may be built using high temperature superconductors to enable even higher field strengths and thus higher beam strengths.
Green aviation
Future electric aircraft engines are made possible by the implementation of high temperature superconductors within the powertrain. Enabling significant weight savings and reductions in electrical losses may finally make electric aircraft engines efficient enough to be feasible on commercial aircraft.
Further reading
Our superconductor expertise is based on over 15 years of dedicated research. The scientific basis for our innovative solutions can be found in a selection of peer-reviewed papers below.