AC loss and contact resistance in REBCO CORC®, Roebel, and stacked tape cables

K Yagotintsev, VA Anvar, P Gao… - Superconductor …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Many high-temperature superconductor (HTS) applications require superconducting cables
with high currents while operating in an alternating magnetic field. HTS cables should be …

[HTML][HTML] AC loss and contact resistance in highly flexible rebco cable for fusion applications

Z Guo, J Qin, R Lubkemann, K Wang, H Jin, G Xiao… - Superconductivity, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) materials can operate at higher magnetic
fields up to 20 T with high critical current and higher operating temperature, compared to low …

Overview of verification tests on AC loss, contact resistance and mechanical properties of ITER conductors with transverse loading up to 30 000 cycles

KA Yagotintsev, WAJ Wessel, A Vostner… - Superconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The ITER magnet system uses cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) technology with individual
strands twisted in several stages resulting in a rope-type cable, which is inserted into a …

New design of cable-in-conduit conductor for application in future fusion reactors

J Qin, Y Wu, J Li, F Liu, C Dai, Y Shi, H Liu… - Superconductor …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a new tokamak device
whose magnet system includes toroidal field, central solenoid (CS) and poloidal field coils …

Change of interstrand contact resistance and coupling loss in various prototype ITER NbTi conductors with transverse loading in the Twente Cryogenic Cable Press …

A Nijhuis, Y Ilyin, W Abbas, B ten Haken, HHJ ten Kate - Cryogenics, 2004 - Elsevier
The multistrand NbTi conductors for the Poloidal Field (PF) Coils of the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) are subjected to heavy transverse loading due …

A macroscopic model for coupling current losses in cables made of multistages of superconducting strands and its experimental validation

B Turck, L Zani - Cryogenics, 2010 - Elsevier
In a multistage cable the superconducting strands occupy the whole volume in a complex
oscillatory pattern from the axis to the periphery. After considerations on the trajectories of …

Impact of void fraction on mechanical properties and evolution of coupling loss in ITER Nb/sub 3/Sn conductors under cyclic loading

A Nijhuis, Y Ilyin, W Abbas, HHJ Kate… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The combination of current up to 50 kA and magnetic field of 13 T in the Cable-In-Conduit
Conductors (CICC) for the coils in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor …

THELMA code electromagnetic model of ITER superconducting cables and application to the ENEA stability experiment

M Ciotti, A Nijhuis, PL Ribani… - Superconductor …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
The new THELMA code, including a thermal-hydraulic (TH) and an electro-magnetic (EM)
model of a cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC), has been developed. The TH model is at this …

Coupling Loss Time Constants in Full-Size Nb3Sn CIC Model Conductors for Fusion Magnets

A Nijhuis, HHJ ten Kate, JL Duchateau… - Advances in Cryogenic …, 1997 - Springer
The cable-in-conduit conductor for the ITER coils have to perform at magnetic fields up to 13
T under the conditions of normal high ramp rates as well as extreme magnetic pulses during …

Void fraction influence on CICCs coupling losses: Analysis of experimental results with MPAS model

M Chiletti, JL Duchateau, F Topin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modelling by analytical approach the coupling losses of CICCs used in tokamaks remains a
challenge to be reliable. This is usually done using either CPU consuming numerical …