Assembly in the test facility, acceptance and first test results of the ITER TF model coil

Author

Fillunger, H. ; Hurd, F. ; Maix, R.K. ; Salpietro, E. ; Ciazynski, D. ; Duchateau, J.-L. ; Libeyre, P. ; Martinez, A. ; Bobrov, E. ; Herz, W. ; Marchese, V. ; Süßer, M. ; Ulbricht, A. ; Wüchner, F. ; Zahn, G. ; Corte, A. Della ; Ricci, M. ; Theisen, E. ;

Author_Institution

EFDA-Close Support Unit, Garching, Germany

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

595

Lastpage

599

Abstract

As a joint European effort an ITER Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) was manufactured in industry and has been assembled in the TOSKA test facility of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. After cool down and acceptance tests of the racetrack shaped coil made of a Nb₃Sn cable in conduit conductor the first test campaign started in July 2001 reaching the design current of 80 kA within one week. This paper describes the assembly in the test facility, summarizes the acceptance tests before and after cool down, and reports on the first test results.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; cables (electric); cooling; electric conduits; fusion reactor design; niobium compounds; plasma toroidal confinement; superconducting coils; 80 kA; Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; ITER TF model coil; Nb₃Sn; TOSKA test facility; cable-in-conduit conductor; cool down; design current; racetrack shaped coil; test facility; toroidal field model coil; Assembly; Coils; Conductors; Insulation; Niobium; Steel; Test facilities; Testing; Tin; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2002.1018474

Filename

1018474