Full-array test results of the Swiss LCT coil

Author

Zichy, J.A. ; Jakob, B.

Author_Institution

Swiss Inst. for Nucl. Res., Villigen, Switzerland

Volume

24

Issue

2

fYear

1988

fDate

3/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

771

Lastpage

774

Abstract

The Swiss contribution to the international Large Coil Task (LCT) is a D-shaped 2.5*3.5 m² bore, superconducting toroidal-field coil of 8-T. The conductor is made from fully transposed, Cu-stabilized filamentary NbTi wire. The data taken during the full-array test of the Swiss coil are discussed. In these experiments the coil was energized together with the five background coils and successfully reached several times its rated current of 13 kA, thereby subjecting its conductor to the maximum field of 8.0 T. Additional tests were performed with stationary heat load without driving the coil normal. The full-array and single-coil test results are presented and compared with each other and with predictions.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor materials; superconducting magnets; testing; 13 kA; Large Coil Task; NbTi wire; NbTi-Cu; Swiss LCT coil; full-array test; fusion reactors; single-coil test; stationary heat load; superconducting toroidal-field coil; tokamak device; Conductors; Copper; Helium; Niobium compounds; Silicon compounds; Superconducting coils; Superconducting magnets; Testing; Titanium compounds; Toroidal magnetic fields;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.11338

Filename

11338