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

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

Electromechanical investigations and quench experiments on sub-size HTS cables for high field EU-DEMO Central Solenoid

Ortensia Dicuonzo

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the mechanical and thermal behaviour of HTS coated conductor cables for EUROfusion DEMO magnets. One of the issue in large HTS magnets is the safety against a quench. A quench is a sudden thermal runway in which the ...

EPFL2022

Impact of mechanical and thermal cycles at different operating conditions on the ITER toroidal field coil conductor performance

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

The impact of electromagnetic (EM) and thermal cyclic loading (referred as warm-up-cool-down-WUCD) on the Nb3Sn cable in conduit conductors for the toroidal field magnets of the ITER tokamak should be carefully assessed for the proper operation of the mach ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Quench Simulation of REBCO Cable-in-Conduit Conductor With Twisted Stacked-Tape Cable

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti

Quench protection is a critical issue for magnet using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) materials such as REBCO. For cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) with twisted REBCO tapes, which is considered for high-current HTS conductor for fusion magnet, the ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Design of DEMO PF Coils Based on Cable-in-Conduit Conductor

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Mithlesh Kumar

The poloidal field (PF) coils are designed based on the requirements defined by the EUROfusion 2015 DEMO baseline. The conductors are forced flow, NbTi cable-in-conduit. The design addresses the dimensioning of the winding pack, the electromagnetic field c ...

2019

Thermal-hydraulic modeling of a novel HTS CICC for nuclear fusion applications

Pierluigi Bruzzone

A thermal-hydraulic model has been developed for the novel cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) recently proposed by ENEA, which foresees the use of 2nd Generation REBCO-based Coated Conductor tapes stacked into twisted grooves slotted into an Al core. A cent ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

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

Results and analysis of the hot-spot temperature experiment for a cable-in-conduit conductor with thick conduit

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

In the design of future DEMO fusion reactor a long time constant (similar to 23 s) is required for an emergency current dump in the toroidal field (TF) coils, e.g. in case of a quench detection. This requirement is driven mainly by imposing a limit on forc ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Analysis of the CICC Performance Through the Measurement of the Thermal Strain Distribution of the Nb-3 Sn Filaments in the Cable Cross Section

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Ciro Calzolaio

The knowledge of the thermal strain distribution of the Nb3Sn filaments in a cable in conduit conductor (CICC) cross section is a key parameter in understanding the cable performance evolution when it undergoes electromagnetic (EM) cyclic loading. A CICC i ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Results of the TFEU6 Sample Tested in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Stephen Alfred March

This paper presents the results of the latest European Conductor Performance Qualification Sample for the ITER toroidal field coils. The standard qualification test was performed in the SULTAN facility at CRPP. The sample consisted of two 3.5-m lengths of ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Irreversible Degradation in Nb3Sn Cable in Conduit Conductors

Ciro Calzolaio

One of the biggest goals for the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) is the steady state operation. For this reason all its coils will be superconducting and Nb3Sn material is used for both the toroidal field (TF) and the central soleno ...

EPFL2013

Testing of RF 100 m TF Qualification Conductor in the SULTAN Test Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov

A conductor for ITER toroidal field (TF) coils is the cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) type, which is made of Nb3Sn superconducting strands encased in a stainless steel tubular jacket. A 120-m-long prototype has been designed in accordance with ITER requi ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Manufacture of ITER feeder sample conductors

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Yu Wu

The ITER feeders are the components that connect the ITER magnet systems located inside the main cryostat to the cryogenics, power-supply and control system interfaces outside the cryostat. The feeder busbars rely on the Cable-In-Conduit Conductor (CICC) d ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

Monitoring of the Thermal Strain Distribution in CICCs During the Cyclic Loading Tests in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Ciro Calzolaio

A technique to measure in situ the behavior of the magnetic susceptibility vs. temperature, chi(T), for a cable-in-conduit-conductor (CICC) in the SULTAN test facility has been developed. The same kind of measurements are performed for the corresponding fr ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

In situ Tc measurements of cable in conduit conductors via an inductive method

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Davide Uglietti, Ciro Calzolaio

The measurement of the actual thermal strain, epsilon th, in a cable in conduit conductor (CICC) of Nb3Sn is of paramount importance to predict the CICC performance in operation starting from the strand scaling laws for the critical current density J(c)(B, ...

IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

Measurement of Tc distribution in NbSn CICC

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Davide Uglietti, Ciro Calzolaio

Knowledge of the actual Nb3Sn filaments' thermal strain, epsilon(th), in a cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) is essential to predict the CICC performance in operation starting from the strand scaling laws for the critical current density J(c)(B, T, epsilon ...

SUST 20122012

Test Results of Three Poloidal Field Superconducting Samples in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Boris Stepanov

Superconductors for the ITER Poloidal Field Coils are large cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) made of NbTi strands encased in a round-in-square stainless steel jacket. Three prototype conductor sections for poloidal field coils PF1/6, PF2/3/4 and PF5 have ...

IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

Dependence of the ac loss on the aspect ratio in a cable in conduit conductor

Pierluigi Bruzzone

The coupling current loss in rectangular superconducting cables is strictly dependent on their aspect ratio, which has an impact on the area linked by the field variation and consequently on the currents induced between strands. The relation between the ac ...

2010

Conceptual design of the 12.5 T superconducting EFDA dipole

Pierluigi Bruzzone

Within the framework of the European Fusion Programme (EFDA) a design activity has been started in late 2004 by the EFDA Close Support Unit at Garching (FRG) to design a 12.5 T superconducting dipole magnet. The final goal of this activity is to define a " ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2006

Test results of a small size CICC with advanced Nb3Sn strands

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Boris Stepanov

In the scope of the design activities for a 12.5 T dipole magnet, a short length of cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) with steel jacket was prepared in spring 2005 as a pre-prototype of the high field dipole conductor. The small, rectangular conductor uses ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2006