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HTS activities at Deutsche Nanoschicht and BASF

Michael Baecker, Ron Feenstra, Martina Falter, Jan Kunert, Brygida Wojtyniak, Jan Bennewitz; Deutsche Nanoschicht GmbH

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Outline

Companies and structure

Deutsche Nanoschicht

BASF SE

BASF New Business

Product and process development

Performance

Key R&D factors

Ic development

Up-scaling

Expanded Pilot Line (EPL)

Conclusion

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Deutsche Nanoschicht GmbH

Founded in November 2011 by Dr. Michael Bäcker in succession of Zenergy Power

In June 2013 BASF New Business GmbH acquired all shares of Deutsche Nanoschicht

Located in Rheinbach, Germany

45 employees (chemists, physicists, engineers, technicians, workers)

Expertise in HTS wires, chemical solution deposition, ceramic functional layers, ink-jet-

printing, epitaxial growth

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BASF SE The Chemical Company

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Annual report 2013

Income from operations

before special items

(million €)

Sales

(million €)

BASF SE The Chemical Company

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Annual report 2013

BASF Group employees by region; total: 112,206

Global Know-How Verbund BASF New Business

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Thanks to our close cooperation with numerous partners from science and business

worldwide, we have created an international and interdisciplinary Know-How Verbund.

Science Relations and Innovation Management Approx. 10,650 employees

in research and

development

worldwide

Know-How Verbund with

about 600 excellent

universities, research

institutions and companies

To generate new business areas for BASF, BNB invests…

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BNB – Business Build up

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Building up growth fields with clear path to reach > €500 million sales

Dedicated organization in well-defined growth fields

► Clear milestone plan

► Innovation Business Units with marketing, sales and technology functions

► Collaborations along the innovation value chain with industry partners and experts

Business

Build-up

BVC

Scouting &

Incubation

BASF New Business

e-power

organic electronics

High Temperature Superconductors are key element of Growth Field E-Power Management

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Power Generation: Conversion efficiency

High Temperature Superconductors

Perovskite Solar Cells

Grid: Transmission efficiency

High Temperature Superconductors

Grid: Storage

Batteries

Thermal Storage

Power-to-Gas

Industry: Consumption efficiency

High Temperature

Superconductors

Buildings: Consumption efficiency

Solid State Cooling

BNB – IBU E-Power Management

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BASF New Business

Head of IBU

Marketing

Sales

Technology

• R&D

• Pilot production

BASF SE Process Research &

Chemical Engineering

Technology platform:

• Chemical Solution Deposition

• Inorganic Thin Films

IBU: Innovative Business Unit


All-solution Coated Conductors Approach

Advantages

highest throughput (deposition rates)

lowest investment

lowest energy consumption

low raw material costs

Favourable for energy applications

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Recent improvement of Ic in continuously processed all-solution

Coated Conductors with industrial raw materials

Key success factors

Industrial cooperation partners

VDM metals for textured substrates

Honeywell Specialty Chemicals for coating solutions

Process improvements

Substrate optimization

Understanding of growth processes

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VDM metals




Industrial cooperation with VDM metals

Large scale manufacturing

Joint development

Continuous improvement

High reproducibility

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with curtesy of VDM metals




Industrial cooperation with

VDM metals


Optimization of heat treatment

and rolling conditions to

avoid single tilted grains

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Industrial cooperation with VDM metals


Optimization of

surface treatment

before coating

15 as received after surface treatment




Understanding of growth processes

Homogeneous nucleation

Fast growth

16 Confocal laser microscopy SEM




20cm out of 10m sample

1000nm HTS layer thickness

Ic = 275 A/cmw (77K, sf)

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Ic = 275 A/cmw (77K, sf)

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Mechanically structured tapes

Ic = 600 A/cmw (30K, 1T)

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Measurement of inter/intra granular current

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Jc(Heff=0)

Hpeak

Intra-granular JcG determined from

fully flux-penetrated state (77 K)

Jc = 1.8 MA/cm2

JcG = 2.3 MA/cm2

Jc / JcG = 0.7-0.8

strong GB meandering

SuST 24 (2011) 062001


Up-scaling – Expanded Pilot Line (EPL)

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Lab processing Expanded Pilot Line


Up-scaling – Expanded Pilot Line (EPL)

EPL construction until mid 2015

Planned capacity > 200km technical HTS wire

Start sampling for customer projects end 2015

Key success factors

Engineering team in-house

Construction and programming in-house

Robust non-vacuum technology

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Conclusion

HTS is key element of IBU e-power management

Integration of Deutsche Nanoschicht completed

Significant performance increase in 2014

Joint laboratory with KIT (B. Holzapfel) started in 10/2014

Up-scaling on track

Discussion with potential customers ongoing

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