An optimal design method for superconducting magnets using HTS tape

Author

Noguchi, So ; Yamashita, Makoto ; Yamashita, Hideo ; Ishiyama, Atsushi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

Volume

11

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2308

Lastpage

2311

Abstract

This paper describes an optimal design method for superconducting magnets wound with high temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes (e.g. Bi2223/Ag tapes). The properties of HTS tapes have been advancing and HTS magnets have been constructed and demonstrated. However, the HTS tapes have thermally different characteristics compared with the low temperature superconducting (LTS) wires. Therefore it is necessary to consider these characteristics of HTS tapes at the magnet design stage. We propose a new configuration of the superconducting magnets using Bi2223/Ag tapes. The proposed configuration is optimized by using simulated annealing (SA), which is one of the optimization algorithms, under a lot of constraints such as B-I characteristic, central magnetic field, field homogeneity and so on. The details of the optimization method and an example of its application to a 12-Tesla superconducting magnet using Bi2223/Ag tape are shown

Keywords

bismuth compounds; calcium compounds; high-temperature superconductors; silver; simulated annealing; strontium compounds; superconducting magnets; superconducting tapes; thermal analysis; B-I characteristic; Bi2223/Ag tapes; Bi₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O-Ag; HTS tape; central magnetic field; field homogeneity; high temperature superconducting tapes; magnet design stage; optimal design method; optimization algorithms; simulated annealing; superconducting magnet; superconducting magnets; thermal characteristics; Constraint optimization; Design methodology; High temperature superconductors; Magnetic fields; Magnetic properties; Simulated annealing; Superconducting filaments and wires; Superconducting films; Superconducting magnets; Wounds;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.920322

Filename

920322