Large Coil Test Facility test stand design description
Abstract
The Large Coil Program (LCP) is sponsored by the Department of Energy as part of fusion technology development to develop and test large superconducting magnet coils in an environment similar to that of a large tokamak fusion device. Six different coils will be tested in a compact toroidal array in the Large Coil Test Facility (LCTF) at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The component of the LCTF which provides the structural support and service connection for the coils is the test stand. The test stand incorporates design features which provide coil structural restraints for a variety of in-plane and out-of-plane loading conditions. Consideration was given to the influence of each coil on adjacent coils in the array and attempts were made to minimize any thermal and structural interactions. The pulse coil system of the test stand provides a simulated poloidal field which can be applied to any selected test coil position. This system is designed to move the pulse coil set from one coil location to another without warming the test and coils. The test stand is designed in such a way that at a future date, it can accommodate a single 12-tesla test coil along with five 8-tesla coils.
- Publication:
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8th Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979epfr.conf.1183Q
- Keywords:
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- Design Analysis;
- Magnet Coils;
- Superconducting Magnets;
- Test Facilities;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Performance Tests;
- Ring Structures;
- Subassemblies;
- Torque;
- Engineering (General)