1 What we know (and still don’t) on He II heat transfer through electrical insulation for accelerator magnets Bertrand Baudouy CEA, Irfu, SACM Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France Mini workshop on thermal modeling and thermal experiments for accelerator magnet 30 th Sept – 1 st Oct CERN

2 Outline ▫ Introduction on He II heat transfer in accelerator magnet coils ▫ Heat transfer in All-polyimide electrical insulation ▫ Heat transfer in ceramic porous insulation ▫ Comparison of “permeable” insulation thermal characteristics ▫ Heat transfer in All-impregnated insulation ▫ Thermal properties ▫ Some ideas and perspectives

3 He II heat transfer in accelerator magnet coils ▫ “Wet” magnets with “heat exchanger” ◦ Large internal losses and small stored energy ◦ Single phase coolant in contact with conductor ◦ Cooling Source: Internal heat exchanger ▫ Heat transfer between the conductor and the cooling source determines the temperature margin ▫ Electrical insulation constitutes the largest thermal barrier ▫ LHC Electrical Insulation : All-polyimide ◦ 10 mW/cm 3 or 0.4 W/m (cable) ◦ ΔT<0.3 K with permeable insulation or ΔT~4 K with monolithic insulation (He II) ◦ Work mainly focus on the permeability (to He) of the insulation ◦ Different wrapping schemes ◦ The thermal properties of the insulation not a parameter

44 The heat paths (1/2) ▫ Heat transfer configuration ◦ Volume dissipation in the conductors ◦ Collars side is thermally insulated ◦ Heat flux goes through the 1 st layer and 2 nd layer ◦ Heat flux has to go through the cable − Conductor − Insulation ▫ Heat paths to be considered ◦ Small face path ◦ Large face path Open Channels Channels between insulation

5 November 19th 2007 The heat paths (2/2) Large face : Transverse HT through the insulation and longitudinal HT in the “channels” between conductor insulation Small face :Transverse HT through the insulation Conductors Insulation First layer second layer ▫ Transverse HT through insulation ▫ “Channels” HT

6 Experimental tools ▫ Measurement on coils (CERN) ◦ Real coil ◦ DC current for heating representative of HT in a coil ▫ The “Stack” experiments (KEK, Saclay) ◦ Dummy Rutherford cables joule Heated ◦ Instrumented with temperature sensors ◦ 5 conductors stack ◦ Compression mold Measurement of the overall thermal resistance Is it representative of HT in a coil? ▫ The “Drum” experiment ◦ Measurement of 1D transverse HT Does not represents the real confinement in a coil No transient measurement possible Better understanding of HT

7 Heat transfer in All-Polyimide Electrical Insulation ▫ State-of-the-art All-Polyimide Electrical Insulation ◦ Developed with Kapton, Apical or Upilex ◦ Two layers with polyimide glue for binding ◦ Polymerisation : ~ 100°C for several hours Courtesy of D. Tommasini 0.4 W/m Measurement at 1.9 K, 3 conductors heated Dry insulation Increasing permeability ▫ New development At CERN

8 He II heat transfer through permeable insulation ▫ Coupling with conduction (with drum experiment) ◦ For large heat flux, He II HT<conduction ◦ HT model with He II in “channels” in parallel with conduction with Kapitza − One average diameter of channels with measurement in Landau and Gorter- Mellink regimes − Length = over lapping of wrapping − d eq ≈10 μm First layer second layer

9 He II heat transfer through permeable insulation ▫ Importance of the small face (with the Stack experiment) ◦ Experiment with artificial holes in a “dry” insulation ◦ Experiment with the inner spacer or insulation

10 He II heat transfer through permeable insulation ▫ Importance of the large face (with the Stack experiment) ◦ Thermal decoupling between conductors ◦ Heat transfer in channel?

11 Heat transfer in small channel Heat transfer in small channels – d eq  [56; 4800] µm – L  [30; 40] mm Heat transfer in small slits? – 53 µm x 16 mm – A GM not modified – vortex spacing 1 µm – fully developed turbulence Heat transfer in d eq of 10 µm range and lower? – Modification of the Physical law? – Bulk properties? – Variable cross-section? – Transient? – Phase change? N. Kimura, A. terashima, A. Yamamoto, and T. Shintomi, “Heat transfer through narrow cooling channels in pressurized helium II”, presented at CEC 1999, Montréal, Canada N. Kimura, H. Nakai, M. Murakami, A. Yamamoto, and T. Shintomi, “A study on the heat transfer properties Of pressurized helium II Through fine channels”, Adv. Cryo. Eng. 41A, 2005

12 Heat transfer in ceramic porous insulation (1/2) ▫ Ceramic “porous” electrical insulation ◦ One wrapping with 50% overlap ◦ Heat treatment of 100 h at 660°C ◦ 5 conductors heated ◦ 10 MPa compression only! ▫ Collaboration between KEK-Saclay ◦ KEK Sample holder ◦ KEK temperature measurement technique ◦ Saclay insulation

13 Heat transfer in ceramic porous insulation (2/2) ▫ Stack experiment results ◦ ΔT~few mK for LHC thermal loads ◦ Representative (Mechanical load, temperature measurement) ▫ H. Allain PhD ◦ Darcy law valid (Landau regime) ◦ Gorter-mellink? ◦ Transient?

14 Permeable Insulation Thermal Characteristics

15 Heat transfer in All-impregnated insulation (1/3) ▫ Two electrical insulation scheme developed during the NED project ◦ Ceramic porous media ◦ All-impregnated electrical insulation S. Canfer et. al, “Insulation Development for the Next European Dipole”, IEEE Trans. on Applied Superconductivity, 18 issue 2, 2008, pp ▫ The fiberglass epoxy insulation ◦ Plain weave E glass fiber sheets ◦ Mixture of DGEBF epoxy resin, typified by Dow DER354 and DETDA hardener, typified by Albemarle Ethacure 100 ▫ Impregnation ◦ Produced using a vacuum impregnation technique in a similar way to magnet impregnation ◦ Curation under 1 MPa pressure at a temperature of 90ºC ◦ When the epoxy was gelled the temperature was raised to 130ºC for 16 hours

16 Heat transfer in All-impregnated insulation (2/3) ▫ Kapitza resistance and thermal conductivity in He II determination ◦ 4 thicknesses (39, 106, 144 and 293 μm) ◦ Profile measurement for real thickness and surface H W H W

17 Heat transfer in All-impregnated insulation (3/3) ▫ Kapitza resistance and thermal conductivity in He II ▫ Thermal conductivity is roughly 5 times larger than the Kapton’s one ▫ Kapitza resistance is two times lower than one data found in the literature B. Baudouy and J. Polinski, “Thermal conductivity and Kapitza resistance of epoxy resin fiberglass tape at superfluid helium temperature”, Cryogenics 49, Issue”3-4, March-April 2009, Pages

18 Thermal properties and coupling Kapton – K, Rth in He II known – Cp or diffusivity? – Heat transfer coefficient in He I? – Transient heat transfer coefficient in He II and He I? Fiber glass and epoxy resin – K, Rth in He II known – Cp or diffusivity? – Heat transfer coefficient in He I? – Transient heat transfer coefficient in He II and He I? Ceramic insulation properties? Heat transfer in coupled conduction and He II? – Tortuous small channels

19 Some ideas and perspectives ▫ Heat transfer experiment in small channels (10 μm diameter range) ◦ Coupling between conduction and He II ◦ Variable cross-section ◦ Channels in parallel ▫ Thermal properties measurement for the only insulation ◦ SS and transient for Cp, h… ▫ Ceramic insulation (permeable state) within FJPPL ◦ Thermal conductivity measurement (KEK within CERN-KEK Collaboration) ◦ He II Stack experiment − Continuation of He II exp at Saclay and sHe and bHe at KEK (FJPPL) ◦ He II insulation only experiment (Drum experiment) ▫ Ceramic insulation (impregnated state) ◦ Thermal conductivity measurement ◦ He II Stack experiment ◦ Kapitza experiment