Speaker
Pierre Bauer
(ITER Organization)
Description
The ITER current leads will transfer large currents of up to 68 kA into the biggest superconducting magnets ever built. Following the development of prototypes and targeted trials of specific manufacturing processes through mock-ups, China is preparing for the series fabrication in ASIPP (Chinese Institute of Plasma Physics). A key component of the ITER HTS current leads are the resistive heat exchangers. Special R&D was conducted for these components at CERN and ASIPP in support of their designs. In particular several mock-ups were built and tested in room temperature gas to measure the dynamic pressure drop and compare to 3D CFD models. The benchmarking of the models on experimental data has helped in defining the proper modelling parameters. Finally this paper will also report on the results obtained during operation under nominal conditions on the heat exchanger sections of the ITER current lead prototypes.
Primary author
Pierre Bauer
(ITER Organization)
Co-authors
Dr
Amalia Ballarino
(CERN)
Dr
Arnaud Devred
(ITER Organization)
Dr
Bernardo Bordini
(CERN)
Dr
Erwu Niu
(ITER China Office)
Dr
Kaizhong Ding
(ASIPP)
Dr
Monika Sitko
(CERN)
Dr
Thomas Taylor
(CERN)
Dr
Tingzhi Zhou
(ASIPP)
Prof.
Yifeng Yang
(University of Southampton)
