Procurement and testing of superconducting toroidal field coils in the large coil program

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:5207146

Haubenreich, P N; Luton, J N; Thompson, P B

As part of the development of superconducting toroidal field coils for tokamak reactors, the U.S. Large Coil Program was established to accomplish the design, fabrication, and testing of large coils of competing designs, under conditions approximating those in a reactor. Three U.S. industrial teams are under contract to design and fabricate at least one coil each, to guidelines and specifications established by the Program. Concurrently a large coil test facility is being constructed at Oak Ridge. Each LCP test coil will have a 2.5 x 3.5 m D-shape winding bore and will operate with a conductor current of 10 to 16 kA, at a peak field of 8 tesla while subjected to pulsed fields up to 0.14 T and simulated radiation heating. Two test coils will use NbTi conductor; the other, Nb/sub 3/Sn. The required cryostabilization will be achieved in the NbTi coils by cooling with boiling helium; in the Nb/sub 3/Sn coil, by forced flow of supercritical helium. The arrangement chosen for the coil tests is a 6-coil compact torus, in which coils of different internal design can be assembled to generate the magnetic field required for realistic testing. The new facility will provide vacuum around the test stand, cryogenics, power, control and data systems.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 5207146
• Report Number(s): CONF-771029-75; TRN: 78-005001
• Resource Relation: Conference: 7. symposium on fusion research project, Knoxville, TN, USA, 25 Oct 1977
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTING COILS
TEST FACILITIES
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS
PLANNING
PLASMA HEATING
TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION
ANNULAR SPACE
CONFIGURATION
HEATING
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
700202* - Fusion Power Plant Technology- Magnet Coils & Fields
420201 - Engineering- Cryogenic Equipment & Devices