Superconducting Non-planar Modular Field Coils for the Stellarator Fusion Experiment WENDELSTEIN 7-X

Within the consortium "Wendelstein", Babcock Noell is manufacturing, together with an Italian partner, the super-conducting non-planar modular field coils for the German fusion experiment Wendelstein 7-X.

Due to the special form of the coils, a continuous plasma confinement is possible. For the manufacture of the coils and their components, at times completely new procedures have to be found, to reach the specified values.

Customer: Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald Division

Duration of project: 1998 – 2008

Technical Data of a Coil:

108 Windings
NbTi Superconductor
Operating Current:17,600 A
Maximum Current:32,000 A
Operating Temperature:4.2 K
Weight of one Coil:ca. 6,500 kg


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