• DocumentCode
    75986
  • Title

    Conductor Performance of TFCN4 and TFCN5 Samples for ITER TF Coils

  • Author

    Bo Liu ; Yu Wu ; Devred, Arnaud ; Bruzzone, Pierluigi ; Stepanov, Boris ; Sedlak, Kamil ; Chao Zhou ; Jing-Gang Qin ; Hua-Jun Liu ; Feng Long ; Fang Liu ; Min Yu

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Plasma Phys., Hefei, China
  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Jun-15
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The fourth China TF conductor sample (TFCN4) for Phase II, the left leg of the fifth China TF conductor sample (TFCN5) for Phase III, as well as the right leg of the TFCN5 conductor for Phase IV, were made of the WST strands, cabled by Baosheng, jacketed at ASIPP, and prepared by CRPP following the IO-approved procedure and tested in the SULTAN facility. The Tcs test results show that both legs of the TFCN4 and TFCN5 have high Tcs performance. Using the electrical method, the Tcs was 6.56 K for the left leg of TFCN4 and 6.58 K for the right leg of TFCN4 at 68 kA/10.78 T in the first test and 6.36 K for both legs after 1000 electromagnetic load cycles. In the case of TFCN5, Tcs was 6.56 K for the left leg and 6.30 K for the right leg at 68 kA/10.78 T in the first test and 6.33 K for the left leg and 6.02 K for the right leg after 1000 electromagnetic load cycles. According to the SULTAN test result, Tcs values of TFCN4 and TFCN5 conductor samples meet the ITER acceptance criteria.
  • Keywords
    superconducting coils; ITER TF coils; ITER acceptance criteria; SULTAN facility; TFCN4 samples; TFCN5 samples; WST strands; conductor performance; current 68 kA; electrical method; electromagnetic load cycles; fifth China TF conductor sample; fourth China TF conductor sample; magnetic flux density 10.78 T; temperature 6.02 K; temperature 6.30 K; temperature 6.33 K; temperature 6.36 K; temperature 6.56 K; temperature 6.58 K; Conductors; Current measurement; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Niobium-tin; Strain; Temperature measurement; $T_{cs}$; $hbox{Nb}_{3}hbox{Sn}$; ITER; Nb3Sn, Tcs; TF conductor; self-field;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1051-8223
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASC.2014.2376931
  • Filename
    6975091