Publications by Giancarlo Croari

From Conception to Commissioning of EDIPO and SULTAN Quench Detection Systems

At CRPP in Villigen (Switzerland), the superconducting windings of the EDIPO and SULTAN test facilities need to be protected in case of quench. The detection of a quench, which triggers the protection circuit, is based on the comparison of the voltages on ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Commissioning of the Main Coil of the EDIPO Test Facility

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Martin Vogel, Markus Jenni, Giancarlo Croari, Stephen Alfred March, Davide Uglietti

The EDIPO test facility is erected at CRPP Villigen with the aim of providing a flexible, high field test bed for high current force flow superconductors. The EDIPO main coil is a tilted-head race-track pair wound by a graded Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conduct ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

SULTAN test facility: Summary of recent results

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Giancarlo Croari, Kamil Sedlák

The test campaigns of the ITER conductors in the SULTAN test facility re-started in December 2011 after three months break. The main focus of the activities is about the qualification tests of the Central Solenoid (CS) conductors, with three different samp ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

EDIPO quench detection system: concept and development

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Giancarlo Croari, Stephen Alfred March, Roland Felder

EDIPO is the new 12.5 T superconducting test facility that is being installed at CRPP in Villigen, Switzerland. It will be placed beside the existing test facility SULTAN. The main purpose of both facilities is testing samples for the ITER project. EDIPO w ...

IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

The EDIPO Project: Status and Outlook

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Martin Vogel, Giancarlo Croari, Stephen Alfred March

The aim of this paper is to present an up to date review of the status of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) project-whose objective is to build a new facility to perform both DC and AC tests of large force flow superconductor samples in high magnetic background ...

IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012