Test results of the US-LCT pool-boiling coils in the International Fusion Superconducting Magnet Test Facility (IFSMTF)

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5867796

Shen, S S; Dresner, L; Lubell, M S; Lue, J W; Luton, J N; McManamy, T J; Wilson, C T; Wintenberg, R E

The international Large Coil Task (LCT) has designed, built, and successfully tested six different toroidal field coils. Each has a 2.5- x 3.5-m D-shaped bore, a current between 10 and 18 kA, and is designed for stable operation at 8 T, with a superimposed pulsed field of 0.14 T in 1.0 s, and simulated nuclear heating. Included in the torus are two pool-boiling coils designed and fabricated by US firms, General Dynamics/Convair Division (GD) and General Electric/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (GE). Both coils were well instrumented for studies of electromagnetic, mechanical, and thermodynamic properties. Both coils performed well and met design specifications. In later ''extended-condition'' full-array tests beyond the design values, both operated stably at 100% design current and above 9 T, even with bath temperature higher than 4.3 K. The mechanical behavior of both coils was generally in good agreement with calculations. Both coils were also safely discharged several times in the extended-condition tests. All results indicate that the technology developed for these two pool-boiling LCT coils can be directly applied for future large-scale applications. 5 refs., 5 figs., 9 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5867796
• Report Number(s): CONF-870901-12; ON: DE88002604
• Resource Relation: Conference: 10. international conference on magnet technology (MT-10), Boston, MA, USA, 21 Sep 1987; Other Information: Paper copy only, copy does not permit microfiche production
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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