jpcs Journal of Physics: Conference Series J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1742-6588 1742-6596 IOP Publishing JPCS_1590_1_012051 10.1088/1742-6596/1590/1/012051 J15901051 Paper Superconducting motors for aircraft propulsion: the Advanced Superconducting Motor Experimental Demonstrator project Grilli Francesco 1 francesco.grilli@kit.edu Benkel Tara 1 H¨anisch Jens 1 Lao Mayraluna 1 Reis Thomas 2 Berberich Eva 2 Wolfst¨adter Simon 2 Schneider Christian 2 Miller Paul 3 Palmer Chloe 3 Glowacki Bartek 4 Climente-Alarcon Vicente 4 Smara Anis 4 Tomkow Lukasz 4 Teigelk¨otter Johannes 5 Stock Alexander 5 Bu¨del Johannes 5 Jeunesse Loïc 6 Staempflin Martin 6 Delautre Guillaume 6 Zimmermann Baptiste 6 Woude Ruud van der 7 Perez Ana 7 Samoilenkov Sergey 8 Molodyk Alexander 8 Pardo Enric 9 Kapolka Milan 9 Li Shuo 9 Dadhich Anang 9 Institute for Technical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Oswald Elektromotoren, Miltenberg, Germany Central Technology Group, Rolls-Royce plc, Derby, United Kingdom Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK TH Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences, Aschaffenburg, Germany Air Liquide Advanced Technologies, 2 rue de Cl´emenci`ere BP 15, 38360 Sassenage, France Demaco Holland B.V., P.O. Box 4, 1723 ZG Noord-Scharwoude, The Netherlands SuperOx, Moscow, Russia Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia 07 2020 01 07 2020 1590 1 012051 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd 2020 Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Abstract

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 20kW 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.