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First Commissioning Results of the KSTAR Cryogenic System

2009; IEEE Council on Superconductivity; Volume: 19; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/tasc.2009.2018488

1558-2515

Yaung-Soo Kim, Y.M. Park, Y.J. Lee, S.W. Kwag, Y.B. Chang, N.H. Song, I.S. Woo, H.T. Park, K.W. Cho, H.-S. Chang, D.S. Park, J.J. Joo, K.M. Moon, K.R. Park, Yong Chu, H. Yonekawa, Y.O. Kim, Eunnam Bang, H.K. Kim, Kwang Pyo Kim, M.K. Park, Seunghan Baek, Jaesic Hong, T.H. Ha, Y.J. Kim, In Sung Hwang, H.L. Yang, Y.K. Oh, J.S. Bak, M. Kwon, G.S. Lee,

Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies

The cryogenic system for the KSTAR superconducting magnets has been commissioned. It consists of a cold box, distribution boxes (DB) and cryogenic transfer lines. The cold box and DB #1 provide 600 g/s of supercritical helium to cool the superconducting (SC) magnets, their SC bus-lines, and the magnet support structures. It also provides 17.5 g/s of liquid helium to the current leads and supplies cold helium flow to the thermal shields. The main duties of the DB #2 are the relative distribution of the cryogenic helium among the cooling channels of each KSTAR cold component and the emergency release of over-pressurized helium during abnormal events such as quenches of the SC magnets. After individual commissioning, the system was integrated and cooled down with the KSTAR device. In this paper, the construction and commissioning results of the KSTAR cryogenic system will be introduced. In addition, we will present the cool-down results of the KSTAR device.