BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The coils of the first quadrupole in the fragment separator region of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) must withstand an intense level of radiation and accommodate a very high heat load. Magnets produced with High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) are especially suitable in such an environment. The proposed design employs second generation (2G) HTS, permitting operation at ~50K. The engineering considerations this design are summarized. The goal has been to engineer a compact, readily producible magnet with a warm bore and yoke, made from radiation-resistant materials, capable of operating within the heat load limit, whose four double-layered coils will be adequately restrained under high radial Lorentz forces. Results of ANSYS finite element thermal and structural analyses of the coil clamping system are presented. Coil winding, lead routing and splicing, magnet assembly as well as remote tunnel installation/removal considerations are factored into this design and will also be discussed.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
This paper will describe design, construction and test results of a cryo-mechanical structure to study coils made with the second generation High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). A magnet comprised of HTS coils mounted in a vacuum vessel and conduction-cooled with Gifford-McMahon cycle cryocoolers is used to develop and refine design and construction techniques. The study of these techniques and their effect on operations provides a better understanding of the use of cryogen free magnets in future accelerator projects. A cryogen-free, superconducting HTS magnet possesses certain operational advantages over cryogenically cooled, low temperature superconducting magnets.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York, USA
A spiral wound “pancake” coil made from YBCO coated conductor has been stressed to a pressure of 100MPa in the axial direction at 77K. In this case axial refers to the coil so that the force is applied to the edge of the conductor. The effect on the critical current was small and completely reversible. Repeatedly cycling the pressure had no measureable permanent effect on the coil. The small current change observed exhibited a slight hysteretic behaviour during the loading cycle.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
In the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), superconducting magnets will be exposed to high levels of ionizing radiation. Quadruples in the fragment separator will be exposed to radiation doses as high as ~20 MGy/yr and heat loads as high as ~10 kW/m. High temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes are good candidates for this magnet because they can be operated in the temperature range ~30-50 K to tolerate higher temperatures than low temperature superconductors. Thus, radiation damage studies of HTS tapes are crucial to ensure that they will perform satisfactorily in such a high radiation environment. Therefore, the effects of proton irradiation on second generation HTS tapes from two vendors were studied. Each sample of HTS tape from SuperPower and American Superconductor was irradiated by a 42μA, 142 MeV proton beam at the Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer. Two of each were irradiated at 5 dose levels: 2.5, 25, 50, 75 and 100μA•hr. The angular dependence of the critical current was measured in a magnetic field at 77K. Based on these measurements, conductors from both vendors appear to satisfy the FRIB radiation-tolerance requirement of 10 years of operation.
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BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Particle Beam Lasers, Inc., Northridge, California, USA
High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) are now becoming a crucial part of future medium and high field magnet applications in several areas including accelerators, energy storage, medical and user facilities. A second generation HTS quadrupole is being constructed for the Facilities for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). The muon collider requires high field solenoids in the range of 40-50 T - an R&D that is partly supported by SBIRs and partly programs at various laboratories. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) R&D, recently funded by ARPA-E, requires large aperture HTS solenoid in the range of 25-30 T. A user facility at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) has been funded to develop a 32 T solenoid. All of these programs require HTS in a quantity never obtained before for magnet applications and would play a key role in developing HTS for magnet applications. High field magnets pose special challenges in terms of quench protection, large stored energy and large stresses, etc. This presentation will review various ongoing activities, and examine the future prospects of HTS magnets in a number of applications, with a particular emphasis on high field applications.
