Speaker
Boris Stepanov
(EPFL-SPC)
Description
Since the year 2013, the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) has proposed a Toroidal Field (TF) layout for the DEMO- EUROFusion tokamak, based on a graded winding pack made of layers of Nb3Sn (react-and-wind) and NbTi conductors. In summer 2015, a new reference baseline is issued for the DEMO- EUROFusion tokamak, leading to an update of the TF coil requirements, e.g. the operating current has been reduced from 80 kA to 63 kA. Consequently, the conductor layouts for every graded layer of the TF coil winding pack is re-designed in order to match the new requirements.
The each layer of TF coil winding pack has to be connected electrically in series to form the coil. The inter-layer Nb3Sn splice joint design which does not exceed the conductor dimensions is proposed in this paper for the updated 63 kA Nb3Sn TF conductor. This proposed joint design allows a continuous winding of TF coil winding pack from layer to layer, housing the joint at the zone of inter-layer transition. Ultimately, the all inter-layer joints should be arranged within the winding pack at the low-field and low mechanically stressed region of D-shaped TF coil.
Co-authors
Boris Stepanov
(EPFL-SPC, Villigen, Switzerland)
Pierluigi Bruzzone
(EPFL-SPC, Villigen, Switzerland)
