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Co-wound voltage sensor R&D for TPX magnets

Conference ·
OSTI ID:135134
The Tokamak Physics Experiment (TPX) will be the first tokamak to use superconducting cable-in-conduit-conductors (CICC) in all Poloidal Field (PF) & Toroidal Field (TF) magnets. Conventional quench detection, the measurement of small resistive normal-zone voltages (<1 V) in the magnets will be complicated by the presence of large inductive voltages (>4 kV). In the quench detection design for TPX, we have considered several different locations for internal co-wound voltage sensors in the cable cross-section as the primary mechanism to cancel this inductive noise. The Noise Rejection Experiment (NRE) at LLNL and the Noise Injection Experiment (NIE) at MIT have been designed to evaluate which internal locations will produce the best inductive-noise cancellation, and provide us with experimental data to calibrate analysis codes. The details of the experiments and resulting data are presented.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48; AC02-76CH03073
OSTI ID:
135134
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC--121069; CONF-950905--4; ON: DE96002465
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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