Fabrication of cables for the background-field magnet system of SSTF

Author

Lee, S. ; Lim, B. ; Baang, S. ; Kim, M. ; Park, H. ; Kim, J. ; Han, I. ; Lee, B. ; Kim, K.

Author_Institution

Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

583

Lastpage

585

Abstract

The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device has a fully superconducting magnet system consisting of 16 Toroidal Field (TF) and 14 Poloidal Field (PF) coils. For the test of the KSTAR cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC), an ambient magnetic field of ±8 T with a maximum change rate of 20 T/s is required and a background-field magnet system is being developed for the Samsung Superconductor Test Facility (SSTF). The CICC for PF1-5 is used as the conductor for background-field coils to check the validity of the PF CICC design. Two pieces of cables have been fabricated and the cable has the length of 870 m and the diameter of 20.3 mm. Pitches are 40, 80, 145, and 237 mm at each cabling stage. The void fraction of the CICC is expected to be more than 36%.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; cables (electric); conductors (electric); fusion reactor design; plasma toroidal confinement; superconducting coils; 145 mm; 20.3 mm; 237 mm; 40 mm; 8 T; 80 mm; 870 m; CICC; Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research device; PF1-5; SSTF; Samsung Superconductor Test Facility; ambient magnetic field; background-field magnet system; cable fabrication; cable-in-conduit conductor; cabling stage; maximum change rate; poloidal field coil; toroidal field coil; void fraction; Conductors; Fabrication; Magnetic devices; Magnetic flux; Niobium-tin; Superconducting cables; Superconducting coils; Superconducting magnets; System testing; Toroidal magnetic fields;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2002.1018471

Filename

1018471