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Test of the MF-CICC Conductor Designed for the 12-T Outsert Coil of the HFML 45-T Hybrid Magnet
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 26, 4, pp. 4300305, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 26, 4300305
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- A 45-T hybrid magnet is being built at the High Field Magnet Laboratory of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The hybrid magnet consists of a 12-T cable-in- conduit-conductor (CICC) Nb 3Sn superconducting outsert and a 33-T resistive insert magnet. To verify the CICC design, a thorough testing has been completed in the SULTAN facility at Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL in Villigen (Switzerland) for the medium- grade conductor of the outsert. In two test campaigns, the dc cable performance (current-sharing temperature, critical current), the ac loss, and the conductor's performance stability during cyclic loading and after one warmup and cooldown cycle have been investigated. Two different cable layouts were tested - one with a very short twist pitch (STP) and the second one with a long twist pitch (LTP) cabling pattern. As both conductors were made of the same Nb 3Sn strand and underwent the same heat treatment and sample preparation procedure, the effect of the twist pitch on the ac loss and on the dc performance with respect to cyclic loading could be reliably evaluated. The test results show that both cable layouts are actually very robust. The cable could withstand 2000 load cycles and the warmup and cooldown cycle without any significant degradation of the dc performance, and even the overloading at BI product (field multiplied by current) approximately two times larger than those foreseen during magnet operation did not lead to a big performance change. Small differences between the STP and LTP options have been observed, indicating that the STP conductor withstands high electromagnetic loads better than the LTP one. © 2002-2011 IEEE.
- Subjects :
- Electromagnetics
Materials science
CICC
twist pitch
Nb3Sn
superconducting cable
performance degradation
Superconducting magnet
Correlated Electron Systems / High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML)
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010305 fluids & plasmas
chemistry.chemical_compound
Nuclear magnetic resonance
0103 physical sciences
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Niobium-tin
010306 general physics
Electrical conductor
Resistive touchscreen
business.industry
Structural engineering
Condensed Matter Physics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Conductor
chemistry
Electromagnetic coil
Magnet
business
uperconducting cable
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- ISSN :
- 10518223
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 26, 4, pp. 4300305, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 26, 4300305
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....403ba6153d25451d01edb033f73eb2a8