RU2696831C1 - Superconducting energy storage device - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: heating equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to heat engineering, namely, to superconducting energy accumulators using Josephson tunnel effect, which generates powerful magnetic fields. Accumulator, characterized by that above circular superconducting torus 4 a two- or three-phase electrically conducting winding 9 is installed, and annular superconducting torus 4 itself is equipped with dielectric spacers 8 uniformly distributed along torus 4 length, allowing to realize tunnel effect with formation of alternating current in two or three-phase electroconductive windings 9 for matched energy consumers 10.

EFFECT: disclosed is superconducting energy storage.

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Description

The invention relates to heat engineering, and more specifically to superconducting energy stores using the Josephson tunnel effect, which creates powerful magnetic fields.

Known heat pipes [1], containing a housing with zones of evaporation and condensation and high voltage electrodes connected to a high voltage source of energy. However, such a heat pipe is not intended for energy storage; on the contrary, it uses energy from a high-voltage energy source.

Known heat pipe [2], containing a housing with zones of evaporation and condensation and superconducting electrodes separated by a dielectric gasket. Such a heat pipe is capable, thanks to the Josephson effect, of creating a strong magnetic field from the outside of the casing.

However, the supply of electric energy in such a heat pipe is insignificant, since the electrodes are not made in the form of a torus, which does not allow the current to constantly circulate through the superconducting torus. Such a heat pipe creates a strong magnetic field from the outside of its housing. The disadvantages of such a heat pipe include the fact that it cannot create a rotating magnetic field from the outside of the casing.

As a prototype, a superconducting energy storage device [3] was selected, containing a sealed casing of magnetically transparent material in the form of a hollow torus, the casing is equipped with a valve and an external cooling system, partially filled with an easily evaporating liquid with a boiling point below the phase transition point of the material of the ring superconducting torus, a dielectric capillary structure located on the inner surface of the housing, and the dielectric capillary structure on the superconducting ring torus, which are connected between a capillary dielectric bridge.

The disadvantages of such a battery include the fact that it can only be used to start a thermonuclear reactor and cannot be used as a source of two or three-phase energy sources, which will find wide application. Such superconducting batteries can be used on land vehicles and on aircraft for various purposes.

A feature of the proposed superconducting battery is that (Fig. 1) a two or three-phase electrically conductive winding 9 is installed above the annular superconducting torus 4 a, and the annular superconducting torus 4 itself is equipped with dielectric spacers 8 uniformly distributed along the length of the torus 4, which allow to realize the tunneling effect with the formation on the outer surface of the housing 1 of a rotating magnetic field, the Josephson Effect, and the three-phase (two-phase) winding 9 is connected to direct consumers 10 of an alternating electric an insulating current (FIG. 2).

Figure 2 shows a superconducting energy accumulator containing a sealed casing 1 of magnetically transparent material in the form of a hollow torus, the casing 1 is equipped with a valve 2 and an external cooling system 3, partially filled with an easily volatile liquid with a boiling point below the phase transition point of the material of the ring superconducting torus 4, a dielectric capillary structure 5 located on the inner surface of the housing 1, and a dielectric capillary structure 6 on the superconducting ring torus 2, which are connected between fight capillary dielectric crosspieces 7. (positions 5, 6, 7 in Figure 2. The not shown).

The newly proposed superconducting energy storage device comprises a sealed housing in the form of a hollow torus, an annular superconducting torus located inside the housing and also having the form of a vortex torus and an external cooling system.

The proposed superconducting battery operates as follows.

The main energy release directly inside such an accumulator occurs when large currents flow through the superconducting vortex torus 4. In the absence of external consumers, the current can circulate for years along the annular superconducting torus 4, and in the presence of uniformly distributed along the length of the torus 4 dielectric spacers 8, which allow the tunneling effect to form on the outer surface of the housing 1 creates a rotating magnetic field. When two or three phase windings 9 are located on the outer surface of the housing 1 of a rotating magnetic field, alternating electric current is induced in the two or three phase windings used by consumers 10 of alternating electric current. In the presence of an adjustable gap between them, it becomes possible to roughly adjust the current in the electrically conductive winding 9. When refueling an external cooling system 3 with a cryogenic easily volatile liquid, multiple recharging of the battery from any external powerful energy source is possible. In the presence of two or three-phase consumers of energy 10, the current circulating in the ring superconducting torus 4 will gradually decrease in accordance with the law of conservation of energy.

Information sources

1. Patent RU No. 568809 for "Heat pipe".

2. Patent RU No. 2650456 for "Heat pipe".

3. RF patent No. 2663365 for "Superconducting energy storage."

Claims (2)

1. A superconducting energy storage device containing a sealed casing 1 of magnetically transparent material in the form of a hollow torus, the casing 1 is equipped with a valve 2 and an external cooling system 3, partially filled with a volatile liquid with a boiling point below the phase transition point of the material of the ring superconducting torus 4, dielectric capillary structure 5, located on the inner surface of the housing 1, and the dielectric capillary structure 6 on the superconducting ring torus 2, which are interconnected by capillary dielectric jumpers 7, characterized in that a two or three-phase electrically conductive winding 9 is installed above the annular superconducting torus 4, and the annular superconducting torus 4 itself is equipped with dielectric spacers 8 uniformly distributed along the length of the torus 4, allowing the tunneling effect to form in two or three-phase windings 9 alternating electric current for agreed energy consumers 10. 2. The superconducting energy storage device according to claim 1, characterized in that the electrically conductive winding 9 is mounted relative to the annular superconducting torus 4 with an adjustable gap.

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