1994 Volume 29 Issue 6 Pages 402-411
The Ship & Ocean Foundation set up“a research and development committee for MHD ship propulsion”in 1985 and started an extensive R & D studies, and to construct an experimental ship to demonstrate that a ship can really be propelled by MHD thrusters with all the necessary machinery and equipments on board. The experimental ship, named the YAMATO 1, was completed in the fall of 1991 and was actually propelled successfully by MHD thrusters in the summer of 1992 in KOBE harbour.
There are many complete different handlings & operational sequences required for the operation of Superconducting MHD thruster in comparison with usual one. This paper describes the manner & results of initial cooling down and exciting & demagnetization of the superconducting magnets, and compares measured data on the BOLLARD test with values calculated theoretically, and reports the agreement with them.
