Bilfinger Noell

Bilfinger Noell GmbH is a company of Bilfinger SE. Operating worldwide in the product areas of nuclear service, nuclear technology, magnet technology and environment technology, putting experience into practice with great success. Services range from developing, planning, delivering, and commissioning up to operating the delivered plants and the relevant equipment. Most of the about 350 employees work in the field of engineering.

In close cooperation with customers, NOELL develops and fabricates LTS and HTS superconducting magnet systems for research and industry. NOELL has supplied components for large-scale projects such as the dipole magnets for CERN, Geneva, or the non-planar coils for the fusion experiment Wendelstein 7-X in Greifswald, Germany. For both projects, we started with the development of prototypes until the series fabrication of the magnets. For the Karlsruher Institut of Technology (KIT), we develop and design superconducting undulators to bring them to the market. Bilfinger Noell in the past successfully fabricated and tested superconducting coils i.e. an undulator prototype coil (SCU) made out of YBCO, showing that the basic know how is available. We are also involved in the major international projects ITER and FAIR with studies, components and series production.

From CERN, NOELL received the “Golden Hadron Award”, an award which is granted to companies which exceeded the requirements of the customer in terms of technical performance, quality and cost efficiency above the contractual obligations.

Currently, Bilfinger Noell is developing a superconducting flywheel energy storage system for the power market.

Role:

Task leader for T5.4: Technology demonstrator of an HTS insert for HFML
Main contributor for T4.4: T4.4: Heat extraction and helium free cryogenics
Contributor to T2: State of the art for the two domains “High field accelerator magnets” and “MRI, NMR and other industrial projects”

Relevant Projects:

PENeLOPE

Precision Experiment on the Neutron Lifetime Operating with Proton Extraction, 2015; DFG Funding; TUM

PERC

Superconducting solenoid system for the experiment PERC at TU Munich; 2014; DFG Funding; PERC Collaboration

DIRACsecondary-Beams

Internal Target experiments with highly energetic stored and cooled secondary beams at the International Accelerator Facility, 2004, FP6, GSI

Additional Information

Infrastructure

Bilfinger Noell GmbH is situated in Wuerzburg, Germany with offices and two manufacturing sites.

The sites are furnished with all equipment’s and tools for the manufacturing of resistive and superconducting magnets and vacuum and cryogenic equipment. It includes a winding line to wind HTS-tape coils. The components developed by engineers can be assembled from individual parts to finished products finally tested.

In a special facility, the production of prototypes can be performed under clean room conditions.

Another production workshop is available nearby. This is primarily used for the production of smaller components and the manufacture of superconducting cables. In this workshop, a planetary strander cabling machine is available.

Key Personnel

Dr. Wolfgang Walter (male), Diploma in Physics (1997); Ph. D. in Physics (2002); 17 years working experience, Current Position: Head of Magnet Division, responsible for all superconducting and magnet activities within Babcock Noell. Experience in magnet development, project management and business development. Board Member of Conectus and DIIF. He organized several Workshops on Superconducting Magnet Design and Cryogenic Design for Magnets

Cristian Boffo (male), Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Dipl-Ing., 1999); 15 years working experience; Current Position: Head of Development Department; HTS Magnets R&D;
Projects: SCU 15 and SCU 20 Superconducting Undulator; PENeLOPE; PERC; XFEL Cryomodule Industrialization Study; ILC; Project (FNAL); NLC Project (FNAL); High Field Magnet Program (FNAL)

Michael Gehring (male), Degree in Physics (Dipl-Phys., 1991); Professional education in electrics (1978) Current Position: Head of Sales Department; Speaker of Fusion Group of the German Nuclear Society from 2001-2013; International experience (USA); Projects: Busbar System for JET (England); LHC Superconducting Dipoles; Wendelstein 7-X nonplanar coils

Publications

C. Boffo et al.; “Performance of SCU15: the New Conduction-cooled Superconducting Undulator for ANKA”; MT-24, 2015

H. Scheller; “Construction of a 5-m-long Undulator prototype and study on Series production” (customer: DESY; 2006 – 2007)

C. Boffo, R. Kuhn; “Industrial Study of the Assembly of the Cryomodules of the International Linear Collider (ILC)” (customer: CERN; year 2012)

G. Sikler; Toroidal Field coils for JT60-SA – technologies, Time Planning, Cost Structure” (customer: CEA Cadarache, 2009-2010)

E. Theisen, H. Scheller; Study about ITER TF coil insertion (customer: F4E, 2011)

CERN Accelerating science

PENeLOPE

PERC

DIRACsecondary-Beams

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