One of the technical issues in the application of High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) tapes to magnet technology is the need to wind long tape sections with uniform electric properties along the length. It has been reported that a No-Insulation (NI) coil can properly work even in the presence of defective super-conductive regions, with a minimal drop of performance as com-pared to its "defect-free" counterpart. This could open up the possibility of manufacturing coils by jointing together several tape segments of limited length, lowering the conductor cost. In this work, a single pancake NI HTS coil is wound using several tape segments cut from the same lot, jointed together. The electrical resistance of each joint is set independently, realizing either high or low resistance joints. Thus, the coil is designed to include multiple defective sections at specific locations. The coil is refrigerated by conduction-cooling, and tested at different temperatures and charging rates. The coil instrumentation allows measuring the voltage over the whole winding, as well as the magnetic field in the central bore. The measurements are used to study the defect-irrelevant behavior of the coil. A simple equivalent lumped parameter circuit is applied to derive the coil effective parameters and analyze its electromagnetic behaviour.
In order to explore the applicability of superconducting magnets in a magnetic field range of 3 T or less, where superconducting magnets have not been much used so far, a prototype magnet development project has been launched in collaboration with Hanmi Techwin Corporation and Seoul National University. As a result of the project, here we report the design, construction, and operation results of a 2 T 240 mm defect-irrelevant winding (DIW) (RE) Ba2Cu3O7− x (REBCO) magnet. First, design goals were set considering its potential usage in industrial fields, and a 2 T 240 mm-bore multi-width no-insulation high-temperature superconductor magnet was designed accordingly. Based on the design, a total of 15 double pancake (DP) coils were wound, regardless of defects in REBCO tapes, and assembled together. After being installed in a conduction cooling system, the magnet was tested at a temperature of <20 K, and a magnetic field of 2 T at the magnet center was successfully generated with a total of four DP coils containing multiple defects. Based on the experimental results, the additional considerations required for the DIW approach at the magnet level are discussed.
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