Vapor-cooled lead and stacks thermal performance and design analysis by finite difference techniques

Conference · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1985 · IEEE Trans. Magn.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6191550

Peck, S D; Christensen, E H; O'Loughlin, J M

Investigation of the combined thermal performance of the stacks and vapor cooled leads for the Mirror Fusion Test Facility-''B'' demonstrates considerable interdependency. For instance, the heat transfer to the vapor-cooled lead (VCL) from warm bus heaters, environmental enclosure, and stack is a significant additional heat load to the joule heating in the leads, proportionately higher for the lower current leads that have fewer current-carrying, counter flow coolant copper tubes. Consequently, the specific coolant flow (G/sec-kA-lead pair) increases as the lead current decreases. The definition of this interdependency and the definition of necessary thermal management has required an integrated thermal model for the entire stack/VCL assemblies.

• Research Organization: General Dynamics, Convair Division, San Diego, California
• OSTI ID: 6191550
• Report Number(s): CONF-840937-
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Magn.; (United States), Vol. MAG 21:2; Conference: Applied superconductivity conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 9 Sep 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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