Investigation of cooling effects on conduction cooled HTS tape due to high thermal conduction plastics

Local temperature rise due to insufficient cooling is one of the important problems in conduction-cooled high-temperature superconducting (HTS) coils. Assuming two types of plastics having high thermal conductivity as spacers in HTS coils, we measured temperature rises of a conduction-cooled HTS tape under various contact conditions between the plastics and the HTS tape. The cooling performance from the Zylon fiber reinforced plastic to the HTS tape was not so good, since the fibers in the plastic were oriented in one direction. The Dyneema fiber reinforced plastic effectively cooled the HTS tape, because the fibers in the plastic were two dimensions. The possibility to use the plastics with high thermal conductivity as the spacers in the conduction-cooled HTS coils was demonstrated.