Author/Authors :
Wesche، نويسنده , , Rainer and Bagnasco، نويسنده , , Maurizio and Bruzzone، نويسنده , , Pierluigi and Felder، نويسنده , , Roland and Guetg، نويسنده , , Marc and Holenstein، نويسنده , , Manuel and Jenni، نويسنده , , Markus and March، نويسنده , , Stephen J. Roth، نويسنده , , Felix and Vogel، نويسنده , , Martin، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
For the new test facility EDIPO (European DIPOle), to be hosted by CRPP, two 18 kA HTS current leads were manufactured and successfully tested. The HTS module, made of AgMgAu/Bi-2223 tapes, is cooled only by heat conduction to the cold end, while the copper part is cooled by forced flow helium gas. The current leads were tested at low voltage up to the maximum current of 18 kA. The helium mass flow rates required for stable operation at various currents were determined. In addition to the steady state operation, the transient behavior in the case of a loss of flow was studied experimentally. The test results provide an estimate of the operational limits of the EDIPO HTS current leads.
Keywords :
contact resistance , heat flux , Loss of flow accident , Current sharing temperature , HTS current leads
