Open AccessPerformance and Quench Characteristics of a Pancake Coil Wound With the 2G YBCO Roebel Cable
Author(s) -
Qingbo Zhang,
Yifeng Yang,
Lorenzo Cavallucci
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ieee transactions on applied superconductivity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1558-2515
pISSN - 1051-8223
DOI - 10.1109/tasc.2018.2799140
Subject(s) - fields, waves and electromagnetics , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas
The YBCO Roebel cable is a promising option for the high-energy accelerator magnets and tokamak devices with high-current carrying capability and compactness. Referring to the complex current sharing and normal zone propagation, it is difficult to apply the traditional superconductor quench measurement methodology to such a long Roebel cable (2 m) in an adiabatic condition. An alternative method for the quench measurement is to make a Roebel pancake coil cowound with ribbon fiberglass. This paper starts reporting the methodology to wind the coil with impregnation process and the wire installment for the quench measurement. Some initial performance measurements and a first trial of the quench measurement were processed in LN2 at 77 K to show the robust performance of this Roebel cable at all the current contacts while maintaining the cable effectively adiabatic or similar to real magnets.