Performance of a 12-coil superconducting 'bumpy torus' magnet facility.The NASA-Lewis 'bumpy torus' facility consists of 12 superconducting coils, each 19 cm ID and capable of 3.0 tesla on their axes. The coils are equally spaced around a toroidal array with a major diameter of 1.52 m, and are mounted with the major axis of the torus vertical in a single vacuum tank 2.6 m in diameter. Final shakedown tests of the facility mapped out its magnetic, cryogenic, vacuum, mechanical, and electrical performance. The facility is now ready for use as a plasma physics research facility. A maximum magnetic field on the magnetic axis of 3.23 teslas has been held for a period of more than sixty minutes without a coil normalcy.
Document ID
19730035658
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Roth, J. R.
Holmes, A. D.
Keller, T. A.
Krawczonek, W. M. (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Date Acquired
August 7, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1972
Subject Category
Facilities, Research, And Support
Meeting Information
Meeting: Symposium on the Technology of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion Experiments and the Engineering Aspects of Fusion Reactors