Increase of Cooling Performance of Conduction Cooled Superconducting Coils Using High Thermal Conduction Plastic.

We experimentally study thermal stability of conduction cooled superconducting coils from a viewpoint of structural materials of the coils. The materials are Dyneema fiber reinforced plastics (DFRPs). The DFRP has properties of high thermal conduction and negative thermal expansion. We evaluated the stability of the conduction cooled coils having DFRP bobbins with changing the DFRP's thermal expansion. According to the experimental results, when the expansion became large, the stability also became better. It is expected that the DFRP is the effective heat sink bobbin material. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]