PRODUCTION

ICAS operates in Superconductivity and Cryogenics R&D and production, mainly in the design, manufacturing and testing of superconducting devices for power electronics, as conductors and small to medium size magnets.
The main on-going and completed productions are listed in the following:



On-going productions
2021 Supply of CIC conductors for the superconducting magnetic system of the
DTT - Divertor Tokamak Test facilty reactor.
2019 Supply of MgB2 Cable Assemblies for the HL-LHC Superconducting Links.
2019 Manufacturing of the ITER In-Vessel Coils Conductors (Mineral Insulated Copper Conductors).


Completed productions
2020 Manufacturing of Tefzel Insulated internally cooled Cu conductors, with stainless steel jacket, for the ASDEX Upgrade fusion experiment at Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching (Munich).
2019 Manufacturing of n.1 Joint Sample for EU-DEMO TF coils.
2019 Supply of 100m trial conductor and 781m TF conductor for the National Institute for Quantum Technology (QST), in collaboration with Kiswire LTD.
2017-2018 Qualification Phase for the production of the ITER In-Vessel Coils Conductors (Mineral Insulated Copper Conductors).
2016-2018 Qualification and supply of MgB2 cables for the HL-LHC Superconducting Link.
2010-2018 Supply of about 20 km of ITER TF conductors (video), 22 km of ITER PF1/6 conductors (jacketing only) and
of all the JT60SA TF conductors (about 30km). (video)
2016 Feasibility studies of an alternative design of the ITER In-Vessel Coils Conductors (Mineral Insulated Copper Conductors).
2016 6 additional JT-60SA TF conductors
2015 (contracted to the ICAS partner CRIOTEC Impianti)
Design and manufacture of a pair of current leads for dual operating conditions 10 kA - 20 kA and double cryogen cooling, using superconductive YBCO tapes.
Project developed in collaboration with the Swiss Institute CRPP
2015 6 ITER TF conductors supply (about 4.5 km, jacketing only)
2015 (contracted to the ICAS partner CRIOTEC Impianti)
Winding, Heat Treatment, and Impregnation of the NAFASSY large bore magnet (pictures),
wound with a Nb3Sn CICC
2014-2015 Manufacturing of one ITER TF conductor (jacketing only)
2014 Manufacturing of Nb3Sn CIC conductors for the 45T Hybrid Magnet project
2013 Manufacturing of Nb3Sn CIC conductors for the NAFASSY large bore magnet (picture)
2013-2015 Manufacturing of 3 ITER PF samples for test in the SULTAN facility (pictures)
2011-2014 All the Korean portion of the ITER TF conductor supply (about 20 km, jacketing only) (video)

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