Test of a 10 kA HTS Current Lead for ITER

Author

Bauer, Pierre ; Bi, Yanfang ; Devred, Arnaud ; Ding, Kaizong ; Feng, Hansheng ; Gung, Chen-yu ; Huang, Xiongyi ; Liu, Chenglian ; Mitchell, Neil ; Ni, Qing ; Shen, Guang ; Song, Yuntao ; Zhou, Tingsi

Author_Institution

ITER Organ., St. Paul-lez-Durance, France

Volume

21

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1074

Lastpage

1078

Abstract

The ITER Organization (IO) and the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) are jointly developing the design of the 10 kA Current Leads (CL) using High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for the Correction Coil (CC) Magnet System of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ITER. The proposed design combines a conventional helium cooled heat exchanger operating between 65 K and 300 K with a HTS module covering the low temperature end using Bi-2223 tapes. The details of the design and test results obtained on a first prototype lead will be discussed in this paper.

Keywords

heat exchangers; high-temperature superconductors; nuclear fusion; superconducting coils; superconducting magnets; superconducting tapes; Bi-2223 tapes; Chinese Academy of Sciences; HTS current lead; ITER organization; Institute of Plasma Physics; correction coil magnet system; current 10 kA; heat exchanger; high temperature superconductors; international thermonuclear experimental reactor; temperature 65 K to 300 K; Copper; Heating; High temperature superconductors; Joints; Lead; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Bi-2223; HTS current leads; fusion tokamak; super conducting magnets;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2010.2100091

Filename

5699366