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Fabrication, Transport Current Testing, and Finite Element Analysis of MgB2 Racetrack Coils

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This paper reports the fabrication, transport current testing, and finite element analysis of magnesium diboride (MgB2) racetrack coils made by a wind and react method at 4.2 K in self-field. This type of coil can be potentially appropriate for applications aimed at building block coils that can serve as wind turbine generator coils and correction coils for fusion magnets. We have fabricated racetrack coils using an in situ monofilament MgB2/Niobium/Monel wire; each coil had a wire length of 45 m and 80 turns. The best measured critical current of the coil was 134.9 A at 4.2 K and self-field of 0.55 T. In addition, the magnetic field and the Lorentz force contribution in the coil were estimated using finite element analysis.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Department of Atomic Energy, India, Australian Research Council (DE130101247, FT110100170), and 2014 UOW-URC grants. The authors would like to thank Dr. Tania Silver for the helpful discussions. The authors would like to extend their sincere appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for its funding of this research through the Research Group Project (RGP-290).

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  1. Magnet Division, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, 382428, Gujarat, India

    Ananya Kundu, Dipak Patel, Nitish Kumar, Arun G. Panchal & Subrata Pradhan

  2. Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Squires Way, Innovation Campus, North Wollongong, New South Wales, 2519, Australia

    Dipak Patel, Wenbin Qiu, Hyunseock Jie, Zongqing Ma, Jung Ho Kim, Subrata Pradhan & Md Shahriar Al Hossain

  3. Department of Mechatronics, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Gelisim University, Istanbul, 34315, Turkey

    Ekrem Yanmaz

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

    Mohammed Shahabuddin

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Kundu, A., Patel, D., Kumar, N. et al. Fabrication, Transport Current Testing, and Finite Element Analysis of MgB2 Racetrack Coils. J Supercond Nov Magn 30, 2957–2962 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-016-3870-y

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