Experimental and Numerical Studies on a Method to Mitigate Screening Current-Induced Field for No-Insulation REBCO Coils.

Abstract

We present experimental and numerical studies on a method to mitigate screening current-induced field (SCF) for NI REBCO coil. The SCF is the major field error to incorporate a REBCO insert for a high field LTS/HTS magnet. The field-shaking technique is going to be used to mitigate the SCF of 800-MHz REBCO insert magnet (H800) for MIT 1.3-GHz LTS/HTS NMR magnet (1.3 G). The field-shaking using 500-MHz LTS background magnet generates the SCF in H800, due to huge self and mutual inductances of them. In this paper, we tested the effect of the induced current in the NI REBCO coil on the field-shaking technique to mitigate the SCF. The amount of the induced current was decided by the NI REBCO coil status; the open- or closed-loop coil. We performed the three cases of experimental tests and analyzed them. From the test results, we may conclude that we need to limit the ramp rate of L500 during the field-shaking, to minimize the induced current in the HTS insert which consists of the NI REBCO coil.