A growing chorus of experts predicts aviation will account for more than 25% of human-induced climate effects by 2050 if it continues on its current trajectory. Yet, by then, the planet must be at net-zero emissions to avoid the worst effects of global climate change, according to the United Nations. Furthermore, it is now increasingly understood that carbon emissions are responsible for half of aviation’s in-flight emissions’ full climate impact. With aviation on track to burn nearly 100 billion gallons of fuel per year, now is the time to talk about transitioning away from fossil fuels.

In this session, James McMicking, VP Strategy, will discuss ZeroAvia’s progress to date and current R&D initiatives underway. One such initiative is the Hyflyer II project. Supported by the UK Government, the project is set to deliver a breakthrough 19-seat hydrogen-electric powered aircraft. With the flight technology progressing to certification, green and low-carbon production and infrastructure are vital to support adoption. ZeroAvia has already developed a microcosm of what that will look like in the shape of its Hydrogen Airport Refuelling Ecosystem (HARE), developed alongside project partner EMEC. He will also detail a partnership with Royal Schiphol Group on testing and demonstrating hydrogen supply chain refueling operations and integration with airport operations.

Most importantly, James will convey how innovations like ZeroAvia’s will impact the aviation industry, what its current major airline partners are trying to achieve regarding their sustainability goals, and when we can all expect to see large-scale zero-emission commercial jets in our skies.

James will cover what milestones to date ZeroAvia has completed and what other efforts exist that seek to tackle this growing issue. In addition, he will discuss ZeroAvia’s product roadmap, starting with their first commercial offering in 2024.
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James’ 20+ year career combines strategy and engineering across multiple sectors, notably automotive and aerospace. Following his Masters Engineering degree, James joined engineering consultancy Ricardo as a drivetrain engineer and went on to manage R&D projects for automotive clients around the world. Following a dual degree MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, James moved sectors to join management consultancy Booz & Company where he worked on and led a variety of strategy and operations projects for clients across aviation, defence, pharmaceuticals, distribution and finance.

It was from Booz that James joined the Aerospace Technology Institute as Chief Strategy Officer and one of its founding executives to set up the organisation in 2014. In 2018 James’ role expanded to include responsibility for all business operations.

As CSO, James oversaw development of several strategic initiatives including the world’s first dedicated commercial aerospace startup accelerator and project FlyZero, a one year strategic research project to understand the technical and commercial potential of zero-carbon emissions technologies for aviation. In 2021 James was awarded a commendation by the Air League for his contributions to the UK aerospace industry.

Fujikura has manufactured long-length 2G HTS wires to meet the requirements by hot-wall PLD method and IBAD technique. Recently HTS wires of high uniformity in critical current are required for several superconducting applications.

We updated line up of HTS wires with 2 – 3 – 4 -12 mm in width.

For mechanical properties, we have been improving process of film deposition and the slitting process with laser.

From 2013, we adopted laser slitting method, and the method is key point to control crack of REBCO film at slit edge. As a result delamination will be suppressed and our 2G HTS wires got reliability.

In this presentation, recent status and activities of REBCO HTS tapes at Fujikura Ltd. are introduced.
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Satoru Hanyu completed his graduate studies (Material science) in 2005

Joined Fujikura Ltd in 2005

Engaged deposition process of coated conductor and buffer layer since 2005.

~Main work~
・IBAD (ion beam assisted deposition) process.
・annealing process

As hydrogen is clearly identified as a core requirement for achieving the goal of clean energy aviation, the practical necessity then becomes putting liquid hydrogen to work. The technology pieces are perhaps mostly available but putting them together in an integral whole becomes the challenge. These pieces include hydrogen liquefaction, storage, transfer, and distribution. The scale and quantities are a crucial tenant as well as understanding the end-use applications for different propulsion systems. The liquid hydrogen servicing systems, from end-to-end, are synergistic with the aircraft and how it used. Providing practical engineered systems that are safe and robust in the airport environment is paramount. One benefit of liquid hydrogen systems is that the minimum viable standard for functionality is high and thus the issues of materials, fabrication, and leakage are in the core of the equipment designs. Addressed are the different means of providing liquid hydrogen on-site as well as cryo-refrigeration plants for providing controlled storage and transfer capability. Dealing with boiloff must be addressed from both safety and economic standpoints.
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James E. Fesmire is co-founder, Executive Vice President, and Chief Architect of GenH2 Corp. for hydrogen infrastructure solutions and liquid hydrogen systems applications on land, sea, air, and space. He is founder and President of Energy Evolution LLC for technology implementation and training. He is also NASA-retired and founder of the Cryogenics Test Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center for novel energy technology and materials research. James holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Materials Science) from the University of Central Florida and Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University. James has decades of experience in cryogenics and low-temperature problem-solving with specialty in all aspects of liquid hydrogen storage and transfer. He has served in leadership roles for boards and technical committees including ASTM International, International Institute of Refrigeration, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Cryogenic Society of America, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Cryogenic Engineering Conference. James is the author of extensive publications, patents, and books in thermal insulation systems, novel materials, and cryogenic testing. James is recipient of NASA medals for Distinguished Service, Exceptional Technology Achievement, and Exceptional Service; R&D 100 award; and Space Technology Hall of Fame medal for aerogel insulation technology. He is a member of the NASA Inventors Hall of Fame for developments in cryogenics, materials, and energy technologies.

High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) magnets are currently considered as a backbone for fusion energy by Tokamak Energy (TE). Non-insulated (NI) and partially insulated (PI) HTS coil technology has made the magnet technology very robust, while capitalising on the total potential of HTS tapes. TE has been a pioneer in pushing NI & PI coil technology for HTS magnets, with a growing portfolio of intellectual property. HTS magnet technology developed at TE makes it simple to design, develop and operate the magnets, with reproducible results. A HTS magnet formed by a stack of NI pancake coils developed by TE achieved a peak field of 24.4 T at 21 K. NI magnets are extremely hard to quench but when forced to quench several times they display no or minimal changes in their superconducting behaviour. The demonstrated mechanical stability, reproducible manufacturing process, ease of operation and inherent quench stability, is a strong basis for a commercially viable technology.

In the last two years, TE has examined several high DC field applications ranging from accelerator magnets, plasma thrusters, research magnets and medical imaging. TE is currently in collaboration with both the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and Magdrive, actively involved in the design and development of HTS Superbend magnets for light sources and space thrusters respectively. Recently, an HTS coil developed by TE was tested to withstand rocket launch conditions. For high field magnets, it is often pointed out that the time constant of NI coil magnets is very large when compared with insulated magnets. This posed a significant challenge to enhance the turn-turn resistance, while retaining the advantages of the NI coil technology. TE has developed “partially insulated (PI)” coil technology, increasing the turn-turn resistance by several orders of magnitude but retaining the quench-safe benefits of NI coils at increasing scale. TE is actively developing this PI coil technology.

TE has also made significant progress towards HTS magnet auxiliary technologies such as flexible HTS current leads and cryogenic power supplies. We will present an overview of these technologies, and their potential for commercial aerospace applications.
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Sriharsha is currently working as a HTS Magnet Engineer at Tokamak Energy, UK. As a part of the advanced technology applications (ATA) team, Sriharsha is keen on solving the engineering problems outside the fusion domain by actively collaborating and maturing the HTS magnet technology in the process. Before joining TE, Sriharsha was previously working on developing the cryogen free HTS current sources at Robinson Research Institute (RRI), NZ as a postdoctoral fellow. Sriharsha got 7+ years of working within the applied superconductivity area, with both experimental and modelling expertise using HTS material for electric aircraft, magnets and flux pumps.

This presentation intends to explain the superconducting propulsion system modeling of the electric aircraft. Since there are multiple components in such a powertrain, each of them is modeled in the standalone mode. These components include fault current limiter, HTS cables, converter, motor, etc.. In the presentation, some analysis related to modeling of the superconducting fault current limiter and the HTS cables are shown. Furthermore, the simulation results of these components with MATLAB/Simulink are discussed.
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Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran
Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering – Smart Grids from Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Research and Development Engineering Intern/Master’s Thesis at SuperGrid Institute, France
(Current Position) Ph.D. Candidate at Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

New Zealand has long been recognised as a global leader in renewable energy integration and holding deep expertise in commercial application of superconducting technology. The New Zealand government has put in place a strategy that mirrors this; to be net carbon-zero by 2050 and invested in cooperative technology development programmes that will accelerate international development.

Transportation is the largest source of non-agricultural greenhouse gas emissions from the country – domestic aviation accounts for 10% of our emissions and long-haul travel maybe more. We depend on aviation, our exports depend on shipping, and our internal freight relies on trucks. We will use electrical energy to reduce our carbon footprint. The good news is that New Zealand is unique in its electricity production – over 80% of our electrical energy is generated from renewable sources, and we have plenty of scope to increase it to 100% using wind, solar, and geothermal.

Electrification of aviation propulsion has the highest potential of drastically reducing emissions in New Zealand. Our domestic (Sounds Air) and international (Air New Zealand) are both committed to passenger electric flight introduction. The NZ government are supporting this and making the regulatory framework available to act as an international test-bed.

The real challenge is for larger transport aircraft with more than 100 seats; conventional technology cannot provide the power-to-weight required to electrify at this scale. Superconducting, and cryogenic, machines may provide a solution: they are small and light, relative to their power output. New Zealand has been working on superconductors since the 1980s and researchers in this field have recently teamed up with NZ’s leading researchers in power electronics and cryogenics systems, and formed strategic international research partnerships.

We will present an overview of the multidisciplinary research in this NZ national programme towards electric flight realization. We will examine the technology integration within superconducting machines for aircraft using novel technology such as flux pump exciters, low ac-loss windings, wide bandgap electronics and integrated cryogenic systems. We will present an overview of the technology development, implications and how this research is globally relevant.
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Professor Rodney A. Badcock was born in Cambridge, U.K., in 1969. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics with electronics from the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in manufacturing and materials engineering from Brunel University, England, U.K.

He has 30 years research experience in applied R&D covering manufacturing process monitoring and control, materials sensing, and superconducting systems. Since 2006, he has concentrated on superconducting machines, and production and machines for General Cable Superconductors at the Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He is currently the Institute Deputy Director, Chief Engineer, Professor and specializes in the management of complex engineering projects, including customer-focused multidisciplinary programmes. He is particularly known for the development of the superconducting dynamos for electric machines and the NZ MBIE programme developing aircraft superconducting electric propulsion technology. Rod is recognized as one of the leading experts in the application of superconducting dynamos and cables to electric machines and translating high temperature superconductivity into commercial practice.

Dr. Badcock was a key member of the team awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Cooper Medal in 2008 for the development of high-temperature superconducting cables for power system applications including 1 MVA transformer, 60 MW hydro generator, and 150 MW utility generator.

The Applied Superconductivity Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde is developing a 200 kW cryogenic propulsion unit under the support of UK Aerospace Technology Institute Zero Emission Sustainable Transport Program. This presentation presents the development progress so far, which includes the development of multi-filament HTS windings for AC loss mitigation, the development of a hybrid trapped field magnet and the cryogenic testing of power electronic devices, in collaboration with Airbus

Prof Min Zhang is the first and the only female professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of Strathclyde. She directs the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory.

Superconducting technologies are ready to be scaled up and deployed in diverse applications beyond their present usage (MRI, NMR, and physical sciences and engineering). Superconductivity has the potential to provide means towards zero-emission targets, enabling extensive usage of wind power generation, facilitating zero-emission transportation, realising robust and resilient electricity, enabling fusion power, superconducting quantum computing, water purification, new medical diagnosis and therapy tools, and new scientific breakthroughs.

To realise the potential of superconductors in addressing our societal future needs as identified in the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, also called the Global Goals; will require new thinking and innovations on how to deploy superconducting technologies and translate it into successful market applications.

This talk will present an update on achievements in superconducting applications and introduce a new initiative on superconductivity for a cleaner and sustainable future and address the global targets for decarbonation.
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Dr Ziad Melhem is the Founder and CEO of Oxford Quantum Solutions Ltd (OQS). And since Jan 2022 a Non-Executive Director at Intelliconnect (Europe) Ltd. OQS is an independent Consultancy business launched in Feb 2021 focusing on Innovations and Advanced Solutions, Strategic Business Development, Strategic Road mapping and Technical Authority on Superconducting, Cryogenics, Instrumentation in Quantum and Nanotechnology applications for Quantum, Energy, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Transport and Power Applications. Before retiring from Oxford Instruments NanoScience (OINS), Ziad as the Strategic Business Development Manager managed OINS Strategic Business Development activities, Alliances and collaborative R&D projects on quantum, nanoscience, and nanotechnology applications.

Ziad has over 32 years’ experience on product, alliances and business development activities in applied superconductivity, Low and High temperature superconducting (LTS & HTS) materials, cryogenic, quantum and nanotechnology applications for scientific, medical, energy and industrial sectors.

Ziad is active at national and international level and member of a variety of international and national committees and organizations and Advisory Board for different projects and initiatives on superconducting, quantum and cryogenic applications. Ziad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of Institute of Physics (IOP). Ziad is a member of the Institute of Physics (IOP) Superconductivity committee and Secretary of the British Cryogenic Council (BCC). Member of the international organizing committee for MT conferences (Since 2017)) and member of the organizing committee for the ICEC (Sep 2018) Oxford, member of the organizing committee of the Oxford University Quantum Hub event on Cryogenic Electronics (Oct 2020). Currently chairing the FuSuMaTech European initiative on Superconducting Magnet Technology.

Future cryogenic power electronic devices could reduce the heat leak from ambient temperature to the cryogenic power system of electric aircraft. This talk focuses on the building blocks for future cryogenic power electronic devices, including silicon, silicon carbide, and gallium nitride semiconductors, as well as capacitors, magnetic core materials, and magnet wire types. Measurements will be presented to show the opportunities and limits of operating existing devices at cryogenic temperature. Research gaps and risks factors will be identified and recommendations will be provided.