Abstract
Superconducting rotating machines have rotor maintained at low temperatures, below the critical temperature of the superconductor. This establishes large temperature difference between the cold rotor and surroundings, resulting in large heat leak into rotor through conduction, convection and radiation. Minimizing this heat leak is essential to reduce the power expense of cryogenic cooling system. A radiation shield is anchored at a suitable location on torque tube to minimize the radiation heat leak into the cold rotor. This paper presents a methodology to determine the optimum location of this anchor-point of radiation shield for a given geometry, which minimizes the total heat leak into cold rotor. The location of radiation shield is found to be depending on emissivity of cold rotor.
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