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Fully superconducting machines provide the high power density required for future electric aircraft propulsion. However, superconducting windings generate AC losses in AC electrical machine environments. These AC losses are difficult to remove at low temperatures and they add an extra burden to the aircraft cooling system. Due to heavy cooling penalty, AC losses in the HTS stator, is one of the key topics in HTS machine design. In order to evaluate the AC loss of superconducting stator windings in a rotational machine environment, we designed and built a novel axial-flux high temperature superconducting (HTS) machine platform. The AC loss measurement is based on calorimetrically boiling-off liquid nitrogen. Both total AC loss and magnetisation loss in HTS stator are measured in a rotational magnetic field condition. This platform is essential to study ways to minimise AC losses in HTS stator, in order to maximum the efficiency of fully HTS machines.
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