Technologies for high field HTS magnets

Six partners from five European countries are cooperating within a R&D BRIT E EURAM project named SHIFT* (Superconducting High Tc Coils for High Field Technologies). The objective of this 3-year project is to develop basic tec hnologies for manufacturing magnets producing high fields operating in the temperature range 20-30 K: HTS wires, coils based on bulk parts, coil struc tures and cooling system, The potential applications are pulsed magnets for power quality SMES and DC magnets for MRT, instrumentation and laboratory use. Specifications and designs of SMES for the voltage sags smoothing appl ication have been performed and will be presented together with SMES design s for flicker mitigation. Main deliverables are the realization of a 6 Tesl a demonstration coil cooled by closed cycle refrigeration and the design of a SMES coil for power quality applications. Target performances, conductor s, test coil developments and designs will be discussed in this paper.