Design and construction of Big Dee poloidal coils and their support structure
The construction of the Big Dee tokamak requires the replacement of several Doublet III poloidal coils with a lesser number of new coils. Eight of the new coils will be enclosed in a 1.27 cm thick stainless steel box beam. The box beam will react part of the loads generated in the encapsulated copper conductor and transmit other loads around it. Coil lead supports will be attached to the box beam, transmitting their loads directly to the support structure. The new outer E-coils (ohmic heating coils) will be encased with the new field shaping coils. The water cooled copper conductor will be wound with alternating layers of fiberglass and Kapton tape and placed in the stainless steel box beam to be vacuum impregnated with epoxy resin. The support structure will consist of horizontal box beams (coil cases) and columns. The box beams will be of welded construction except for a bolted joint that allows the two halves of the assembly to be separated for the removal of the encapsulated coil. Electrically insulated breaks will be provided in the box beam and at the column/box beam interface. The support structure will locate and support the vacuum vessel by means of four trunnions located at the midplane of the vessel.
- Research Organization:
- GA Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT03-76ET51011
- OSTI ID:
- 6756076
- Report Number(s):
- GA-A-17201; CONF-831203-170; ON: DE84013558
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 10. symposium on fusion engineering, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 5 Dec 1983; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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