Preliminary design for a maglev development facility

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10139499· OSTI ID:10139499

Coffey, H T; He, J L; Chang, S L; Bouillard, J X; Chen, S S; Cai, Y; Hoppie, L O; Lottes, S A; Rote, D M ^[1]; Zhang, Z Y ^[2]; Myers, G; Cvercko, A ^[3]; Williams, J R ^[4]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
2. Polytechnic Univ., Brooklyn, NY (United States)
3. Sterling Engineering, Westchester, IL (United States)
4. Alfred Benesch and Co., Chicago, IL (United States)

A preliminary design was made of a national user facility for evaluating magnetic-levitation (maglev) technologies in sizes intermediate between laboratory experiments and full-scale systems. A technical advisory committee was established and a conference was held to obtain advice on the potential requirements of operational systems and how the facility might best be configured to test these requirements. The effort included studies of multiple concepts for levitating, guiding, and propelling maglev vehicles, as well as the controls, communications, and data-acquisition and -reduction equipment that would be required in operating the facility. Preliminary designs for versatile, dual 2-MVA power supplies capable of powering attractive or repulsive systems were developed. Facility site requirements were identified. Test vehicles would be about 7.4 m (25 ft) long, would weigh form 3 to 7 metric tons, and would operate at speeds up to 67 m/s (150 mph) on a 3.3-km (2.05-mi) elevated guideway. The facility would utilize modular vehicles and guideways, permitting the substitution of levitation, propulsion, and guideway components of different designs and materials for evaluation. The vehicle would provide a test cell in which individual suspension or propulsion components or subsystems could be tested under realistic conditions. The system would allow economical evaluation of integrated systems under varying weather conditions and in realistic geometries.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Illinois State Government, Springfield, IL (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 10139499
• Report Number(s): ANL/ESD-14; ON: DE92012259
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Apr 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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