Superconducting magnet and on-board refrigeration system on Japanese MAGLEV vehicle

Conference · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:6089892

Tsuchishima, H; Herai, T ^[1]

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1. Railway Technical Research Inst., Kokubunji, Tokyo (Japan)

This paper reports on a superconducting magnet and on-board refrigeration system on Japanese MAGLEV vehicles. Running tests on the Miyazaki test track are repeatedly carried out at speeds over 300 km/h using the MAGLEV vehicle, MLU002. The development of the MAGLEV system for the new test line has already started, and a new superconducting magnet for it has been manufactured. An on-board refrigerator is installed in the superconducting magnet to keep the liquid helium temperature without the loss of liquid helium. The helium gas produced when energizing or de-energizing the magnet is stored in on-board gas helium tanks temporarily. The on-board refrigerator is connected directly to the liquid helium tank of the magnet.

• OSTI ID: 6089892
• Report Number(s): CONF-900944-; CODEN: IEMGA
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 27:2; Conference: 1990 applied superconductivity conference, Snowmass, CO (United States), 24-28 Sep 1990; ISSN 0018-9464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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