LLNL superconducting magnets test facility

Author

Martovetsky, N. ; Manahan, R. ; Moller, J. ; Zbasnik, J.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

3/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1546

Lastpage

1548

Abstract

The FENIX facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was upgraded and refurbished in 1996-1998 for testing CICC superconducting magnets. The FENIX facility was used for superconducting high current, short sample tests for fusion programs in the late 1980s-early 1990s. The new facility includes a 4-m diameter vacuum vessel, two refrigerators, a 40 kA, 42 V computer controlled power supply, a new switchyard with a dump resistor, a new helium distribution valve box, several sets of power leads, data acquisition system and other auxiliary systems, which provide a lot of flexibility in testing of a wide variety of superconducting magnets in a wide range of parameters. The detailed parameters and capabilities of this test facility and its systems are described in the paper.

Keywords

data acquisition; power supplies to apparatus; refrigerators; superconducting magnets; switchgear; test facilities; 40 kA; 42 V; CICC; FENIX facility; LLNL; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; computer controlled power supply; data acquisition; dump resistor; power lead; refrigerator; superconducting magnet; switchyard; test facility; vacuum vessel; Control systems; Distributed computing; Laboratories; Magnetic switching; Power supplies; Refrigerators; Superconducting magnets; Test facilities; Testing; Vacuum systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.828537

Filename

828537