Conduction-Cooled Superconducting Magnet for Material Control Application

The conduction-cooled superconducting magnet with operating current of 180 A is designed, fabricated, and tested for material control application. The superconducting magnet has the effective standard warm bore of 52 mm and the maximum central field of 3 Tesla. Since magnetic field gradient should be larger at the end rather than at the center of the magnet for material control, we developed design method to optimize magnet for this purpose. The safety of the superconducting magnet is evaluated, taking into account the electro-magnetic field, heat and structure, and the superconducting coil is successfully wound by the wet-winding method. The superconducting coil is installed in the cryostat maintaining high vacuum and cooled by a two-stage GM cryocooler. The performance of the conduction-cooled superconducting magnet is discussed with respect to the supplied current, Joule heating, and cooling medium.