3 Nov 2006S. Kahn -- Quench Protection1 Quench Protection of the 50 T HTS Solenoid Steve Kahn Muons...

3 Nov 2006 S. Kahn -- Quench Protection 1

Quench Protection of the 50 T HTS Solenoid

Steve Kahn

Muons Inc.

3 November 2006


Preliminary Calculations

• I am presenting some preliminary calculations using the quench calculation program QUENCH.– This program was written by Martin Wilson at Rutherford Lab in the

1970’s. The current version of the program is marketed by B. Hassenzahl of Advanced Energy Analysis. BNL has a license to use it.

• There are other codes available:– QUENCHPRO at FNAL Technical Division.– SPQR from CERN.– QLASA from INFN-Milano.– QUABAR.– Vector Fields is developing a quench propagation code.

• Being beta tested now.


Basic Design Parameters of the 50 T Solenoid

Parameter Kahn

EPAC06 Design

Palmer Current Design

Length 70 cm 1 m

Inner Radius 2.5 cm 2.0 cm

Outer Radius 23.5 cm 36.5 cm

Total Stored Energy

20 Mega-Joules 57 Mega-Joules


Conductor and Insulator Description

• The conductor is BSCCO 2223 which is 30% HTS filaments and 70% Ag matrix and Ag-Mg sheath (for strength). We assume the matrix/sheath is all Ag for the calculation.

• The insulator is assumed to be the Stainless Steel interleaving. A minimum thickness (0.07 mm) is used since we are describing the inner layers.

– In practice we will likely add a ceramic coating or kapton wrap as insulator. This will inhibit the transverse quench propagation.

Component Area Fraction

HTS conductor 0.3483 mm2 0.238

Ag matrix/sheath 0.8127 mm2 0.556

SS Insulator 0.301 mm2 0.206


Conductor Material Properties Necessary for Quench Protection

• We need the material properties of all the components of the conductor and insulation.

• The important properties are

– Heat capacitance (Specific Heat)

– Resistivity

– Thermal conductance

• Obtained from resistivity with Wiedemann-Frantz law.

• CV and are parameterized as in up to four temperature ranges:

Specific Heat

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

T, K

C J

ou

le/K

cm

3

Ag

Cu

SS

Resistivity

1.00E-10

1.00E-09

1.00E-08

1.00E-07

1.00E-06

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

Temperature, K

Res

isti

vity

, o

hm

-mCu 85

Ag

SS 304

edV

ba

TETDC

TBTA


Critical Current Measurements

• Measurements of critical current as a function of B and temperature are from EHTS (another provider of BSCCO 2223).

• The measured data is used to determine parameters of the following equation:

Chart Titley = -7.3597E-05x3 + 4.6980E-03x2 - 9.9374E-02x +

1.0108E+00

0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1

1.2

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

B, T

I/Ic I/Ic

Poly. (I/Ic)

Critical Current vs T

y = -0.0597x + 5.8033

-1

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

0 50 100 150

T, K

I/Ic Series1

Linear (Series1)

59.0

200

2000

1

1

1),(

c

c

c

c B

BT

BB

J

JJBT

Used only high field part of data to determine Bc20

This formula is used for NbTi and Nb3Sn. Is it valid for HTS??


HTS Characteristics: JC vs. B for Constant T

Temperature Contours

0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1

1.2

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Field, T

Ic/I

c_o

p

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

4.2

Operating FieldMaximum Field

0.85

Contingency

factor


Quench Propagation Velocity

• Quench protection calculations depend on the quench propagation velocity.• The quench propagation velocity can be calculated from the formula below.

– This is what I did.– Experience for NbTi shows that the formula does not reproduce the measurements.

• Typically the experimentally determined value is used.– We need to measure this for HTS.

– One of the weaknesses of the velocity calculation is that the specific heat (CV) varies as T3 and is rapidly varying at the quench front.

Ts

T0

T1

)(

)()(

max21

0

critS

OpS

S

AveVcondquench

TTT

TT

TL

CA

Iv

Lorentz Number


Comments on J. Schwartz Quench Velocity Measurements

• The quench propagation velocity in this experiment is ~4 cm/sec. In NbTi it is approximately sonic.– If a quench occurs and the heat can not be dissipated, the local

area will heat up to a very high temperature. It will be destructive.• The slow propagation velocity is largely due to the fact that at 4.2°K

most of the SC is far away from the critical temperature.– The closer we are to the Tc, the faster the quench velocity.

• Restated: A conservative design with a large safety factor built-in against quenches occurring could be self-destructive.

• The typical approach used with NbTi and Nb3Sn of firing heaters to make the magnet go normal faster won’t work.– It takes too much external energy to make the magnet go normal and

would likely increase the destruction.


Circuit for Quench Energy Extraction

• Quench circuit components:– Solenoid represented by

inductance L. Also there is an internal resistance (not shown) which is about 10 ohm.

– RPR represents the energy extraction resistance. This will take the large share of quench energy.

– Switch will be activated by quench detection system.

• Could even be a diode system.

– REXT represents the resistance associated to leads, power supply, etc.

REXTLRPR

RSW

Power Supply

Solenoid Magnet


Circuit Parameters

• QUENCH treats the whole magnet. It does not provide for segmenting the magnet into separate coupled systems.– The total inductance can be calculated from the stored energy:

• U=½LI2 where U=20 Mega-Joules and I is the total amp-turns(=2.97107).

• There are 444 layers 175 turns/layer = 77625 turns.

• This gives 280 henrys (big!)

– The resistance associated with 61 km of Ag is 8 ohms.

• We certainly will need to trigger an external resistance into the circuit with a quench is detected.


Quench Parameters as a Function of External Resistance

Time Constant vs Ext Resistance

0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1

1.2

1.4

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200

External Resistance, ohm

Tim

e C

on

stan

t, s

ec

tc

Max Temperture vs. Ext Resistance

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200


Max

Tem

per

ture

, K

External Voltage vs External Resistance

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

400000

450000

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200


Ext

ern

al V

olt

age,

V

•The figures show the following parameters as a function of an external resistance for energy extraction.

•Maximum temperature on conductor•Time constant for decay•External voltage on external resistance

•Note that as one increases the external resistance one decreases temperature, but increases the external voltage.


A Better Approach

• It may be a better approach to divide the magnet radial into separate thermally and electrically isolated systems on separate power supplies. These systems would be coupled through mutual inductance.– Each system would contain less stored energy and could have

different time constants and different start times.– Different sub-systems would have different critical currents since

they are at different magnetic fields. Some may not quench at all.

• QUENCH can not simply handle this complex system.– Do the other codes handle this or do we have to write our own?

• QuenchPro may be able to handle this since it treats each turn separately.


Quench Detection

• Typical quench detection circuits used for LHC and the 25 T NHMFL Solenoid(with HTS insert) trigger at 200-250 mV.

– This corresponds to ~4 cm of “Ag resistance” or 1 sec detection time.

– A “back of the envelop” calculation of T gives ~150°K.

• Caveat: Cv varies as T3 so one needs to do a proper integration over time which can change this significantly.

– We would like to keep T < 200°K if possible to avoid potential damage to the conductor (from micro-cracking)

– If we can detect a quench at 0.1 sec (trigger at 20-25 mV) we would gain significantly.

• We anticipate that the time constant to remove the field to be ~1 sec.


What Do We Need to Measure?

• It is clear from this initial calculation that some parameters are not well known. We should try to measure them.– Electrical resistivity and heat capacity of HTS conductor as a

function of temperature. This should be done above critical current.

– Same measurements of Silver as a control.

– Determine Ic(B) at high field. Verify that the critical current relation that we used (which was developed for NbTi, Nb3Sn) works for HTS.

– Measure the quench propagation velocity. This is important.

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