27 August 2017 to 1 September 2017
RAI Congress Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Performance of the ITER CS joints

30 Aug 2017, 17:00
15m
G102-103 Room

G102-103 Room

Regular 15 minutes Oral Presentation B1 - Superconducting Magnets for Fusion Wed-Af-Or26

Speaker

Boris Stepanov

Description

The US Domestic Agency (USDA) is the supplier of the Central Solenoid (CS) for ITER. The ITER CS uses three different types of joints. In order to verify the joint performance in close to the operational conditions, the USDA built a test sample that contains all three types of CS joints in order to test it in the SULTAN facility. The SULTAN facility allows testing under a variable DC magnetic field, a variable AC field, a variable temperature, and can charge the joints with currents up to 100 kA. The CS SULTAN Sample containing all three CS joints was built by the industrial vendor using their qualified manufacturing procedures. The SULTAN test program is focused on characterization of these CS joints, as well as measurements of resistance, AC loss, and temperature margins in different relevant conditions. We report the test results of all three CS joints in the SULTAN facility and compare them with the theoretical predictions and earlier results on the joints, which was obtained in the Joint Test Facility at Oak Ridge, TN during the R&D phase of the CS project.
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 and by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan(http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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