Analysis and design of in-vessel magnetic compression coil system for HFRC

Abstract

A field-reversed configuration (FRC) experiment facility HUST-FRC (HFRC) is being built at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where the magnetic compression of FRC will be investigated. To generate a pulsed compression magnetic field, a compression coil system is under development, consisting of in-vessel compression coils, a pulsed power supply, and feedthroughs. Energized by the pulsed power supply, a large current peaking ∼110 kA within 50 μs is transferred to in-vessel compression coils across the feedthroughs. This article presents the analysis and design of the compression coil system. At first, field ripple optimizations are performed to reduce the axial and toroidal ripples within 5%, resulting in an optimized coil arrangement and an improved coil conductor structure. In addition, the power supply circuits are quite complex due to the strong electromagnetic couplings among the coils and between each coil and the metal chamber wall. To rapidly and accurately design the electrical parameters of the pulsed power supply for achieving the target coil currents, a decoupled optimization method based on a circuit-electromagnetic model and a decoupled equivalent circuit model is proposed. The errors of the coil currents and the magnetic field are within 1%. Lastly, a feedthrough design and an optimized feeder scheme are proposed to achieve the structural stability of the feedthroughs since they are subjected to large electromagnetic forces.