Quench Analysis of High Field Superconducting Magnets

POSTER

Abstract

Our research is focused on quench analysis of a No-Insulation High Temperature superconducting magnet, based on research done by Bhattarai et al. [Bhattarai et al. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 26, no. 4, June, 2017]. We use the lumped circuit model to decrease the computational time needed to run our simulation on multiple pancake coils to calculate T, Rsc,Ic, Isc and V as a function of time after quench. Our goal is to understand what happens in a HTS magnet during quench to better understand safe operating procedures before using HTS in high field tokamak devices.

*This work was made possible by funding from the Department of Energy for the Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program. This work is sponsored by the US DOE Contract No. DE-AC02-09CH11466

Presenters

  • Luke Payne

    • Centre College

Authors

  • Luke Payne

    • Centre College

  • Yuhu Zhai

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Mentor