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Co-Wound Superconducting Wire for Quench Detection in Fusion Magnets

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti, Nikolay Bykovskiy

High temperature superconducting (HTS) materials are widely utilized in various design proposals for fusion magnets, resulting in enhanced performance of the machines compared to the past. However, a reliable quench detection in HTS conductors remains an o ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Parametric study of the TF coil design for the European DEMO

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Roberto Guarino

In addition to a reduced number of feeders, which would simplify their integration in the cryostat of the tokamak, the present study considers the possibility to reduce the voltage during safety discharge of the toroidal field (TF) coils. A lowered dischar ...

2021

Overview of progress on the EU DEMO magnet system design

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche

The DEMO reactor is expected to be the first application of fusion for electricity generation in the near future. To this aim conceptual design activities are progressing in Europe (EU) under the lead of the EUROfusion Consortium in order to drive on the d ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Progress in the Design of a Hybrid HTS-Nb3Sn-NbTi Central Solenoid for the EU DEMO

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti, Xabier Sarasola Martin

State-of-the-art high field solenoids make use of hybrid designs exploiting the superior high field performance of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) in the innermost region. The benefits of a hybrid Central Solenoid in a pulsed tokamak like the EU DEM ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Divertor Tokamak Test facility project: status of design and implementation

Duccio Testa, Kamil Sedlák, Mattia Ortino

An overview is presented of the progress since 2021 in the construction and scientific programme preparation of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility. Licensing for building construction has been granted at the end of 2021. Licensing for Cat. A radiolog ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Performance of the Cable-in-Conduit Conductors for Super-X Test Facility

Kamil Sedlák, Yu Wu

Following the conceptual design, the engineering design of the dc magnet and cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) for the Super-X test facility has been done in 2021. Totally three types of conductors with different structures were designed for the three pair ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Quench experiments on sub-size HTS Cable-In-Conduit Conductors for fusion applications: Data analysis and model validation

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Ortensia Dicuonzo

The recent experimental campaign, carried out in the upgraded SULTAN facility and supported by EUROfusion, investigated quench propagation in high field, sub-size HTS Cable-In-Conduit Conductors. The available experimental data consist of voltage, jacket a ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Design and R&D for the DEMO Toroidal Field Coils Based on Nb3Sn React and Wind Method

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák

In 2013, the Swiss Plasma Center proposed a Toroidal Field (TF) layout for the DEMO-EUROfusion tokamak, based on a graded winding made of layers of Nb3Sn (react&wind) and NbTi conductors. The R&D effort led in 2015 to a full size prototype conductor tested ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Conductor Performance of TFCN4 and TFCN5 Samples for ITER TF Coils

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Yu Wu, Fang Liu

The fourth China TF conductor sample (TFCN4) for Phase II, the left leg of the fifth China TF conductor sample (TFCN5) for Phase III, as well as the right leg of the TFCN5 conductor for Phase IV, were made of the WST strands, cabled by Baosheng, jacketed a ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

SULTAN test facility: Summary of recent results

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov

The test campaigns of the ITER conductors in the SULTAN test facility re-started in December 2011 after three months break. The main focus of the activities is about the qualification tests of the Central Solenoid (CS) conductors, with three different samp ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

Superconductors for fusion: a roadmap

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy

With the first tokamak designed for full nuclear operation now well into final assembly (ITER), and a major new research tokamak starting commissioning (JT60SA), nuclear fusion is becoming a mainstream potential energy source for the future. A critical par ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Preliminary Design of DEMO PF Coils Based on EU DEMO 2018 Baseline

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Mithlesh Kumar

The dimensioning of Winding Packs and allocation of materials in DEMO PF coils is proposed based on the requirements defined by the EUROfusion 2018 DEMO baseline. The coils are pancake-wound and use two types of forced flow cable-in-conduit conductors. The ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Thermal-hydraulic analysis of alternative cable-in-conduit conductors for the European DEMO hybrid central solenoid

Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Roberto Guarino, Nikolay Bykovskiy

A hybrid design of the Central Solenoid is under study within the conceptual design phase of the European DEMO fusion reactor. It is based on HTS conductors in the innermost high-field layers, and Nb3Sn and NbTi conductors for field values below 15 T. Sinc ...

2022

Study of the Hot-Spot Temperature During Quench in the Nonplanar Coils of W7-X

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

The quench protection system of the nonplanar coils of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator was laid out over 15 years ago. At that time, the assessment of the hot-spot temperature by a basic adiabatic model was done using design values for material and operati ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Alternative PF Coil Winding Pack Design for the EU DEMO

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Roberto Guarino, Mithlesh Kumar

The EUROfusion DEMO machine is at its pre-conceptual stage. The design of the magnet system for this machine is being developed in collaboration with several European research centers. The Poloidal Field (PF) coils proposed by the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

A New Cabled Stabilizer for the Nb3Sn React&Wind DEMO Conductor Prototype

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Kamil Sedlák, Vincenzo D'Auria, Mithlesh Kumar

A Nb3Sn based, React&Wind flat cable, named RW2, was developed in the past three years at the Swiss Plasma Center in the scope of the EUROfusion conceptual studies for DEMO. The test results presented earlier proved an excellent DC performance, but large e ...

2021

Result of Powering and Field Measurements on the GaToroid Demonstrator

Kamil Sedlák

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Test of the MF-CICC Conductor Designed for the 12-T Outsert Coil of the HFML 45-T Hybrid Magnet

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Kamil Sedlák

A 45-T hybrid magnet is being built at the High Field Magnet Laboratory of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The hybrid magnet consists of a 12-T cable-in- conduit-conductor (CICC) Nb 3Sn superconducting outsert and a 33-T resistive inse ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Estimation of performance of Nb3Sn CICC with thermal strain distribution

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák

In the last few years, the critical temperature (Tc) of several ITER cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) was determined by magnetization measurements at zero current. The distribution of the critical temperatures (Tc), caused by variation of strain in the N ...

2020