Conduction-Cooled Superconducting Magnet With Persistent Current Switch for Gyrotron Application

Author

Wang, Qiuliang ; Dai, Yinming ; Wang, Hui ; Wang, Housheng ; Lei, Yuanzhong ; Chen, Shunzhong ; Song, Sousen ; Cheng, Junsheng ; Hu, Xinning ; Cui, Chunyan ; Zhao, Baozhi ; Yan, Luguang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. Eng., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

Volume

21

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2237

Lastpage

2240

Abstract

A superconducting magnet with a center field of 4.5 T cooled by GM cryocooler and operated in the persistent current mode has been designed, fabricated and tested for gyrotron. The superconducting magnet has a warm bore with diameter of 90 mm, the homogenous region with the diameter of 40 mm and length of 230 mm. The ratio of the axial field to the center field located at 180 mm is lower than 88%. In the other special points, the ratios of the radial field to the axial field should be less than from 3% to 11%. The thermally-controlled NbTi/CuNi switch with superconducting joint is connected to the conduction cooled magnet. In this paper, the detailed design, fabrication and test are reported.

Keywords

gyrotrons; superconducting magnets; axial field; conduction-cooled superconducting magnet; cryocooler; gyrotron application; persistent current switch; radial field; size 180 mm; size 230 mm; size 40 mm; size 90 mm; superconducting joint; Gyrotrons; Heating; Magnetic flux; Magnetic resonance imaging; Superconducting filaments and wires; Superconducting magnets; Switches; Conduction-cooled superconducting magnet; NbTi; fusion; gyrotron; persistent current switch;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2010.2081965

Filename

5617317