Temperature and pressure rise in supercritical helium during the quench of indirectly cooled SC coils
- Technische Universitaet Munchen (Germany)
A 1 MJ energy storage device consisting of six toroidally arranged superconducting coils is under construction at TU Munchen. Each coil is cooled indirectly by supercritical helium in two layers of cooling pipe. All cooling layers are connected in series. The heat input is removed by heat exchangers to keep the coolant`s temperature rise small in normal operation. The quench of a coil causes high heat input to the helium cooling system which leads to a fast pressure rise, blocks the helium flow and vaporizes the liquid helium pools. A computer program was developed to calculate the coils temperature evolution and the helium`s thermodynamic state during normal operation and quench. The simulation results show that the proposed protection system can detect the quench within 0.01 s and that the coil`s current will be nearly zero after 1 s due to heating and bypass devices. In the case of two coils quenching simultaneously, the peak pressure in the helium tube arises after 3.8 s and can be limited to 3 MPa by pressure relief valves. The maximum helium temperature reaches 70 K within 7 s.
- OSTI ID:
- 416656
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950722-; TRN: 96:006129-0032
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: CEC/ICMC `95: cryogenic engineering conference and international cryogenic materials conference, Columbus, OH (United States), 17-21 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Advances in cryogenic engineering. Volume 41, Part A & B; Kittel, P. [ed.]; PB: 2037 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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