Remountable high temperature superconducting magnet
Page 1 : Remountable HTS magnet
Page 2 : Mechanical joint of a HTS conductor
Page 3 : Heat transfer enhancement of LN2 with metal porous media
Page 4 : Other superconducting applications
Page 5 : Published papers
Remountable high-temperature superconducting magnet
We have proposed the remountable high-temperature superconducting magnet as one of
the design for future fusion power plant. The followings are concepts of the design.
- A superconducting magnet of a fusion reactor is fabricated separately
and the magnet is constructed by assembling the separated parts of the magnet.
- The parts of the magnet can be mounted and demounted iteratively. (We define
"Remountable" as "Being mounted and demounted iteratively.) This concept
requires a remountable joint method such as a mechanical joint method.
- A high-temperature superconductor (HTS) is selected as material of the
remountable magnet. A HTS has robustness against heat generation at joint parts
because of its high heat capacity at relatively high operating temperature.
- An advanced heat removal technique is applied to the joint region.
The technique and high heat capacity of a HTS ensure stability of the magnet.
This concept gives benefits especially to a helical reactor and a spherical tokamak,
they have complex magnet configuration. We can construct the complex magnets from
short parts and we can also replace a failure parts due to neutron irradiation, for
example.
The following figure shows a schematic view of the remountable HTS magnet,
which is applied to helical magnets of FFHR.
(FFHR is a conceptual design of DEMO reactor proposed by National Institute
for Fusion Science, Japan.)
National Institute for Fusion Science:
http://www.nifs.ac.jp/index.html
![](./Fig3.jpg) |
Remountable HTS magnet |
Subjects of this research field are as follows.
- Research and development for mechanical joint of a HTS conductor achieving low
resistance and remountability
- Research and development for heat removal system at joint region
- Design of the remountable HTS magnet based on the above researches and structural analysis treating electromagnetic force
http://web.tohoku.ac.jp/hashizume_fan_club/
hashizume-stafflovehashizume@grp.tohoku.ac.jp
Copyright © Hashizume & Ito & Ebara & Cheng Lab., All Rights Reserved.