Mitigating Fields from Pulsed Coils

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Techniques are providing for mitigating overcurrents in superconducting magnets by adding a closed loop of superconductor to the magnet that acts as an electromagnetic shield. A time-varying external magnetic field may induce a current in the closed loop, thereby generating a magnetic field that opposes the external magnetic field, and reducing the amount of current induced by the external magnetic field in the primary current-carrying superconductor of the magnet. As a result, the effect of overcurrents can be reduced or removed.

Researchers

Alexey Radovinsky / Akhdiyor Sattarov / Valeria Riccardo / Nicholas Kelton

Departments: Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Technology Areas: Electronics & Photonics: Lasers, Photonics / Energy & Distribution: Electrochemical Devices / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Manufacturing & Equipment / Sensing & Imaging: Chemical & Radiation Sensing

  • techniques for mitigating overcurrents in high temperature superconductor magnets and related systems and methods
    United States of America | Pending
  • techniques for mitigating overcurrents in high temperature superconductor magnets and related systems and methods
    Canada | Pending
  • techniques for mitigating overcurrents in high temperature superconductor magnets and related systems and methods
    European Patent Convention | Pending
  • techniques for mitigating overcurrents in high temperature superconductor magnets and related systems and methods
    India | Pending

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