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Re: Question about power capacity of electrical motors.

From	"Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.electromag, sci.electronics.design, sci.physics
Subject	Re: Question about power capacity of electrical motors.
Date	2017-07-21 04:18 -0400
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>> So is it really true we can increase electric motor power levels simply 
>> by
>> using wire of higher current capacity?
>
>No, you need to reduce resistive losses and/or get rid of heat.
>
>

You are correct that the resistance and heat conduction are very important 
as well. However, these factors are all closely related. For instance to 
test the current carrying capacity, increasingly larger currents are sent 
through the wire until it melts. But this measurement is dependent on 
surrounding conditions. You would get a higher measurement by blowing 
cooling air or other coolant over the wire, which also has relevance for 
their use in high power motors as they always have some cooling system 
involved.

But in any case, in regards to the copper-nanotube composites, the question 
may be moot. NASA tried to reproduce the claimed high current capacity and 
was unable to:

Highly Conductive Wire: Cu Carbon Nanotube Composite Ampacity and Metallic 
CNT Buckypaper Conductivity.
Author and Affiliation:  de Groh, Henry C.   (NASA Glenn Research Center, 
Cleveland, OH United States)
Publication Date:  Apr 17, 2017
Document ID:  20170003881 (Acquired May 12, 2017)
Subject Category:    ENGINEERING (GENERAL); METALS AND METALLIC MATERIALS; 
AIRCRAFT PROPULSION AND POWER
Report/Patent Number: NASA/TM-2017-219480, E-19350, GRC-E-DAA-TN39659
Document Type: Technical Report
[quote]Results
Ampacity
The average ampacity of the wire specimens tested is presented in Figure 3. 
The variation of the Cu
ampacity measurements was 1.6 percent, for TerraCu 2 percent, and 10 
percent for the yarn. Contrary
to other accounts (Ref. 23) and claims (Ref. 24) the CNT present in the 
TerraCu did not improve the
material’s ampacity. Likely reasons for the low ampacity in the TerraCu 
include the presence of s-CNT
and the low volume fraction CNT employed in the composite. Ampacity is not a 
material property. It is a
measurement that can be influenced by experimental factors such as levels of 
cooling. When a long wire
is placed in service and is getting warm due to current flow it must shed 
that heat out radially- not
longitudinally. In the ampacity testing of very expensive CNT composite wire 
it is common practice to
use a rather short section of wire, connected at its ends to very heavy 
connectors; it is also common to
imbed the wire in a large chunk of metal such as Pb-Sn solder. These heavy 
end connections, and
complete encasement enable longitudinal heat flow which corrupts the 
ampacity measurement. Here is
why: It is common for CNT composites to have a texture where in the CNT are 
primarily arranged
longitudinally as a result of the wire drawing process. The thermal 
conductivity of CNT is not isotropic;
the longitudinal thermal conductivity of CNT is very high, but the radial 
thermal conductivity of CNT is
extremely low. Ampacity tests that enable or enhance longitudinal heat flow 
create an advantage for CNT
wire that is not usually present in practical applications. The high 
ampacity results of others may be in
part due to the ability of CNT to longitudinally conduct heat. Very good 
electrical connections were made
in the tests presented here, however, these connections were tangential, 
thus enabled much less surface
area for the conduction of heat.[/quote]
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20170003881

The extreme, high current capacity and extremely high thermal conductivity 
has been well documented for carbon nanotubes themselves, however. But they 
still are only available at up to centimeter lengths.  Then the problem 
remains how to combine them into longer lengths.

Some proposals here:

From Nanoscale to Macroscale: Applications of Nanotechnology to Production 
of Bulk Ultra-Strong Materials.
American Journal of Nanomaterials.
Vol. 4, No. 2, 2016, pp 39-43. doi: 10.12691/ajn-4-2-2 | Research Article.
http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajn/4/2/2/

  Bob Clark


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