Analysis of the EDIPO Temperature Margin During Current Ramp-Up

Author

Marinucci, Claudio ; Calvi, Marco ; Bottura, Luca ; Cau, Francesca ; Portone, Alfredo

Author_Institution

EPFL-CRPP, Fusion Technol., Villigen, Switzerland

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

604

Lastpage

607

Abstract

The European dipole (EDIPO), currently under construction, will provide background magnetic fields of up to 12.5 T for tests of ITER high-current superconducting cables. The EDIPO winding consists of 7 ?? 2 double layers of Nb₃Sn cable-in-conduit conductors with forced flow cooling of supercritical helium. The performance limits of EDIPO during current ramp-up are analyzed analysed with the CryoSoft suite of codes, recently integrated into a customizable and flexible environment for the analysis of thermal hydraulic and electrical transients in superconducting magnetic systems. The simultaneous analysis of the cryogenic system and all 14 double layers shows that under all charging conditions the EDIPO temperature margin remains sufficiently high.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; cryogenics; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor materials; plasma toroidal confinement; superconducting cables; superconducting magnets; CryoSoft code suite; EDIPO temperature margin; European dipole; ITER high-current superconducting cables; cable-in-conduit conductors; cryogenic system; current ramp-up; electrical transient; forced flow cooling; international thermonuclear experimental reactor; superconducting magnetic systems; supercritical helium; thermal hydraulic transient; CICC; ITER; modeling; superconducting magnets;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2010.2040380

Filename

5433258