Design and performance estimation of a 35 T 40 mm no-insulation all-REBCO user magnet

Abstract

This paper presents a design of a 35 T 40 mm winding diameter no-insulation standalone magnet that consists of a stack of 52 double pancake (DP) coils wound with multi-width REBCO tapes. The inner and outer diameters and height of the magnet are 40 mm, 221.6 mm, and 628 mm, respectively. It is designed to generate 35 T at an operating current (Iop) of 179.8 A in a bath of liquid helium at 4.2 K. All the DP coils will be ‘dry’ wound without epoxy, making turns within the DP coils to be essentially ‘self-supporting,’ which is effective to reduce the magnetic stress. To reduce the magnet charging time constant, the so-called ‘metallic cladding’ REBCO tapes will be adopted, where a 1–2 μm thick stainless steel layer surrounds the tapes hermetically. With an average surface contact resistance (Rct) of 170 cm−2, experimentally obtained from a charging test of our recent 3 T 100 mm stainless steel cladding REBCO magnet, the charging time constant of the 35 T magnet was estimated to be 3.01 minutes, though the magnet will be energized substantially slower over a few hours to reduce ac loss and Joule heating from radial turn-to-turn leak currents. A preliminary post-quench analysis, based on our lumped equivalent circuit model, was performed; the total stored energy of 1.79 MJ (magnet inductance: 110.5 H) was expected to be discharged in approximately 1.28 seconds after a quench due to the fast electromagnetic quench propagation among the DP coils, while the peak hot spot temperature was estimated to rise to 94 K, acceptable for a safe quench of a REBCO magnet.