Testing of Cable-In-Conduit Conductors

1. Testing of Cable-In-Conduit Conductors The test campaign of candidate Cable-In-Conduit Conductors (CICC’s) for use in the Series Connected Hybrids is complete. Six sub-size and three full-size cables of different designs have been tested under realistic conditions. This required the creation of a facility with unique capabilities at the NHMFL. Transverse load cycling did not cause significant degradation and their current-carrying capacity as a function of temperature, magnetic field and axial strain is acceptable and can be modeled accurately. This allowed the CICC specification to be finalized, the coil design to be finalized and conductor fabrication for the Series Connected Hybrids is now underway. I.R. Dixon, M.D. Bird, A. Bonito-Oliva, K.R. Cantrell, J. Lu, G.E. Miller, P.D. Noyes, R.P. Walsh, H.W. Weijers, IEEE Trans. On Appl. Supercond., vol. 19, no. 3, June 2009, pp. 1462 – 1465. I.R. Dixon, M.D. Bird, P. Bruzzone, A.V. Gavrilin, J. Lu, B. Stepanov, H.W. Weijers, IEEE Trans. On Appl. Supercond., vol. 19, no. 3, June 2009, pp. 2466 – 2469. Above: A CICC sample mounted through a superconducting magnet is being lowered into its cryostat in preparation of a test Partly funded by Helmholtz Center Berlin