Title :
Assembly in the test facility, acceptance and first test results of the ITER TF model coil
Author :
Fillunger, H. ; Hurd, F. ; Maix, R.K. ; Salpietro, E. ; Ciazynski, D. ; Duchateau, J.-L. ; Libeyre, P. ; Martinez, A. ; Bobrov, E. ; Herz, W. ; Marchese, V. ; Süßer, M. ; Ulbricht, A. ; Wüchner, F. ; Zahn, G. ; Corte, A. Della ; Ricci, M. ; Theisen, E. ;
Author_Institution :
EFDA-Close Support Unit, Garching, Germany
fDate :
3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
As a joint European effort an ITER Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) was manufactured in industry and has been assembled in the TOSKA test facility of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. After cool down and acceptance tests of the racetrack shaped coil made of a Nb3Sn cable in conduit conductor the first test campaign started in July 2001 reaching the design current of 80 kA within one week. This paper describes the assembly in the test facility, summarizes the acceptance tests before and after cool down, and reports on the first test results.
Keywords :
Tokamak devices; cables (electric); cooling; electric conduits; fusion reactor design; niobium compounds; plasma toroidal confinement; superconducting coils; 80 kA; Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; ITER TF model coil; Nb3Sn; TOSKA test facility; cable-in-conduit conductor; cool down; design current; racetrack shaped coil; test facility; toroidal field model coil; Assembly; Coils; Conductors; Insulation; Niobium; Steel; Test facilities; Testing; Tin; Virtual manufacturing;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASC.2002.1018474
