FusumaTech - ITER

STFC

Han Hubert Dols — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:34:19 +0000

STFC is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, and our goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people – and more broadly to the world. Our strength comes from our distinct but interrelated functions:

Universities: we support university-based research, innovation and skills development in astronomy, particle physics, nuclear physics, and space science
Scientific Facilities: we provide access to world-leading, large-scale facilities across a range of physical and life sciences, enabling research, innovation and skills training in these areas
National Campuses: we work with partners to build National Science and Innovation Campuses based around our National Laboratories to promote academic and industrial collaboration and translation of our research to market through direct interaction with industry
Inspiring and Involving: we help ensure a future pipeline of skilled and enthusiastic young people by using the excitement of our sciences to encourage wider take-up of STEM subjects in school and future life (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)

We support an academic community of around 1,700 in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy including space science, who work at more than 50 universities and research institutes in the UK, Europe, Japan and the United States, including a rolling cohort of more than 900 PhD students.

STFC-funded universities produce physics postgraduates with outstanding high-end scientific, analytic and technical skills who on graduation enjoy almost full employment. Roughly half of our PhD students continue in research, sustaining national capability and creating the bedrock of the UK’s scientific excellence. The remainder - much valued for their numerical, problem solving and project management skills - choose equally important industrial, commercial or government careers.

Our large-scale scientific facilities in the UK and Europe are used by more than 3,500 users each year, carrying out more than 2,000 experiments and generating around 900 publications. The facilities provide a range of research techniques using neutrons, muons, lasers and x-rays, and high performance computing and complex analysis of large data sets.

They are used by scientists across a huge variety of science disciplines ranging from the physical and heritage sciences to medicine, biosciences, the environment, energy, and more. These facilities provide a massive productivity boost for UK science, as well as unique capabilities for UK industry.

Our two Campuses are based around our Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire, and our Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire – each of which offers a different cluster of technological expertise that underpins and ties together diverse research fields.

The Composites and Materials Testing Group is based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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Role:

WP4.2 Materials Properties Task Leader, Simon Canfer

Over 20 year experience of composite materials, and materials testing, in connection with superconducting magnets.

Relevant Projects:

ITER

Development of a filled resin system for the TF coils of ITER, 2011-15, ITER-funded Simon Canfer

NED

Insulation Development for the Next European Dipole 2004-8, EU FP6, Simon Canfer

MIRI

Thermal conductivity measurement below 40K of the CFRP tubes for the Mid-Infrared Instrument mounting struts, 2007, ESA, B.M Shaughnessy (RAL Space)

Composite materials lab including epoxy vacuum impregnation facilities for sample production. Low temperature materials testing facility including physical materials testing and integrated thermal contraction to 4K, thermal conductivity testing to 3K. Thermal analysis lab including DMA, TGA, DSC and FT-IR. In the wider STFC labs we have access to further equipment including e.g. SEM-EDX.

Mr Simon Canfer is Group Leader of Composites and Materials Testing Group, Technology Dept, STFC. Responsible for management and strategic direction of the group. Recruitment and succession planning. Responsible for Health and Safety of composite lab operations.

Project management and financial management of both long term materials development projects and short-term manufacturing projects.

Technical development of in-house composite formulations for applications in high energy physics.

S Canfer et al., Optimisation and larger scale testing of the proposed resin system for the TF coils for ITER, Fusion Eng Des,88, Oct 2013

S Canfer et al., Development of a filled resin system for the TF coils of ITER , Fusion Engineering and Design, 01/2011

S. Canfer et al., Insulation Development for the Next European Dipole 2008, IEEE Trans. Applied Super., 07/2008

B.M Shaughnessy et al., Thermal conductivity measurement below 40K of the CFRP tubes for the Mid-Infrared Instrument mounting struts, 2007, Cryogenics, 47, May-June 2007

PSI

Han Hubert Dols — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:30:55 +0000

The Paul Scherrer Institute, PSI, is the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences within Switzerland. PSI performs world-class research in three main subject areas: Matter and Material; Energy and the Environment; and Human Health. By conducting fundamental and applied research, PSI works on long-term solutions for major challenges facing society, industry and science.

Involved in the Project : The Section “Magnets” (Large Research Facility Division)

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Role:

PSI will mainly be involved in WP4.

Relevant previous experience:

Magnet conception, design and tests in PSI projects like the Swiss Free Electron Laser
Expertise in magnetic measurement techniques and magnetic systems. For example the building of a magnetic system for the CCL determination of the ITER TF coils.

Relevant Projects:

Swiss Free Electron Laser

ITER

Development of a filled resin system for the TF coils of ITER, 2011-15, ITER-funded Simon Canfer

Dr. Stephane Sanfilippo (M). Stéphane Sanfilippo earned a Ph.D. in Physic at the “Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble”. After his Ph.D., he worked at CERN on the LHC project during 10 years. He was responsible of the magnetic characterizations of the LHC magnets at cold. In 2008, he joined the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences within Switzerland. He is leading the magnet section, responsible for the design, construction, procurement and tests of the magnets in the PSI projects. The section has also a large expertise in magnetic measurements and in magnetic system development. He is involved in international collaborations with CERN and ITER and leading the International Advisory Committee of the International Magnetic Measurement Workshop since 2015. Since August 2016, he is also deputy of the PSI department “Technical support, coordination and operation”.

C. Calzolaio et al., “Design of a superconducting longitudinal gradient bend magnet for the SLS upgrade”, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7755773

C. Calzolaio et al., “Preliminary Magnetic Design of a Superconducting Dipole for Future Compact Scanning Gantries for Proton Therapy”, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 26, N°3 (2016), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7397947/

Gabard et al, “Magnetic Determination of the Current Center Line for the Superconducting ITER Toroidal Field Coils: Results on a Double-Pancake Prototype”, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 26, N°3 (2016), http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/docume

C.Wouters et al, “Design and fabrication of an innovative three-axis Hall sensor, Sensors and Actuators A 237 62–71, (2016), https://www.nano.phys.ethz.ch/~roessler/files/C.%20Wouters%20et%20al.,%20Sensors%20and%20Actuators%20A%20237,%2062%20(2016).pdf

S. Sanfilippo et al. “Design and magnetic performance of small aperture prototype quadrupoles for the SwissFEL at the Paul Scherrer Institut”. IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 24 (2014)

ELYTT ENERGY

Han Hubert Dols — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:28:33 +0000

ELYTT ENERGY, S.L., is a Private Limited Company established in 2003 by experienced professionals in the field of superconducting magnets working at CERN in Geneva. The company works developing and providing solutions and components in the field of energy.

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Role:

TASK 4-1 Quench analysis, State of the art new computing methods and development plan. ELYTT is going to develop new software to implement in a more efficient hardware.
TASK 4-4 Heat extraction and helium free cryogenics, State of the art, new technologies and prospective for applications. ELYTT is going to research new methods, identify components and materials convenient for the task and develop calculation methods for the developments
TASK 5-3 Social magnet, Open MRI magnet, Mammo-magnet (conceptual design).
Functional specifications and feasibility study. Analyse the field specifications needed for the application and understand how it could be possible to obtain the requested geometries for those singular magnets.

Relevant Projects:

F4E

ITER

Development of a filled resin system for the TF coils of ITER, 2011-15, ITER-funded Simon Canfer

SESAME

HIE-ISOLDE

Linac4

Babcock 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.

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

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)

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