Fabrication of the Toroidal Field Superconducting Coils for the EAST Device

Author

Chen, Wenge ; Pan, Yannian ; Wu, Songtao ; Weng, Peide ; Gao, Daming ; Wei, Jing ; Yu, Jie ; Chen, Siyue

Author_Institution

Inst. of Plasma Phys., Hefei

Volume

16

Issue

2

fYear

2006

fDate

6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

902

Lastpage

905

Abstract

EAST (HT-7U) is a large fusion experimental device being built at IPP, Hefei, China. Its superconducting magnet system consists of sixteen Toroidal Field (TF) coils and fourteen Poloidal Field (PF) coils. The TF coil includes the winding pack with a square cable-in-conduit (CIC) type superconductor in NbTi cooled by a force flow of supercritical helium, the welded case structure, the gravity support which is composed of pedestals with flexible plates, the coil joint with low resistance at high current and other components. At present, the production of all TF coils has been finished and all of the TF coils have been installed in the machine. This paper describes mainly the special fabrication processes of the TF coil

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor materials; niobium alloys; superconducting cables; superconducting coils; superconducting magnets; titanium alloys; welding; EAST device; HT-7U; NbTi; Poloidal Field superconducting coils; Toroidal Field superconducting coils; fabrication processes; fusion experimental device; square cable-in-conduit superconductor; superconducting magnet system; supercritical helium; Fabrication; Gravity; Helium; Niobium compounds; Production; Superconducting cables; Superconducting coils; Superconducting magnets; Titanium compounds; Welding; EAST; fabrication; superconducting; toroidal field;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2006.873270

Filename

1642993