Superconductor Cabling
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Superconductor Cabling
Our products are integrated into most of the major accelerator projects, ore separator magnets, NMR magnets, and superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) magnets. Other projects include Tevatron at Fermilab, RHIC for Brookhaven National Labs, LHC for Cern, 45 Tesla Hybrid Magnet for NHMFL, 36 strand Rutherford cable for GSI-Darmstadt FAIR, and high temperature superconductor wires for American Superconductor and various MRI manufacturers. New England Wire is also the only US manufacturer of Toroidal Field coils for the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project in southern France. Learn more about the ITER project here.
With the widely diversified stranding and cabling processes utilized at New England Wire Technologies, we are able to offer a broad range of special application items including round, rectangular and trapezoidal configurations of superconducting cables. We have experience with both low temperature and high temperature conductors, and we’re a world leader in Rutherford cabling of superconducting wire. We have the ability to apply polyimide tape, fiberglass tape, fiberglass textile braid, extruded ETFE insulation and engineered materials to all conductor configurations.
Do You Need Custom Cable?
A common question asked of the sales and engineering staff at New England Wire Technologies by those unfamiliar with our company is why a custom cable solution should be considered when there are so many off the shelf options out there. This is a very reasonable question and in some cases a standard product does make sense. However, when electrical device and component manufacturers stop to consider what properties would be ideal to meet the demanding requirements of their application and what level of service and quality they expect from their suppliers, the advantage of a custom cable solution from New England Wire Technologies becomes apparent.
The most immediate benefit of a custom solution is the knowledge and design assistance that the staff at New England Wire can provide for your project. Rather than spending days or weeks researching material, electrical and mechanical properties to understand your design options and then pouring through catalogs or calling vendors to try to find a part number close to what you actually need, you can simply go to our Contact Us form to upload a document, describe your requirements, or send an image of an existing cable. Our engineering staff will use their knowledge and experience to design an ideal solution optimized for your exact application. When new requirements, additional options, or added capabilities become necessary, a custom option is quickly adaptable to your changing needs.
Every aspect of a cable is customizable. A standard product will often use coarse stranding, stiff insulation and shielding, and low temperature materials to reduce cost. In addition, the exact size, number, or composition of components needed may not be an option, limiting your selection to an oversized, overweight, or otherwise inexact solution. With a custom cable from New England Wire Technologies you can select the exact components needed for your application to minimize size and weight. We will work with you to determine appropriate conductor stranding for the level of flexibility needed and the ideal conductor material or plating option to balance conductivity, flex life, temperature rating, etc. New England Wire stocks over one hundred extrusion compounds for use as insulation and cable jacketing, combined with a variety of film and textile options to support an incredible range of product requirements. These include the specific temperature and voltage ratings required for your application, flame resistance, flexibility, biocompatibility, low smoke, chemical resistance, toughness, UV resistance, and many more. Shielding is also customizable with the proper selection of braided, spiral, foil, or a combination to balance electrical shielding effectiveness with mechanical or diameter requirements. These are just a sampling of the design options and potential advantages that a custom cable solution from New England Wire Technologies can provide.
Why a custom cable? Perhaps that is a question best answered by the thousands of satisfied customers around the world using New England Wire products. Whether it is the right option for you; that is a question we would love to help you figure out…contact us today to discuss your wire and cable needs.
NEWT Helps US Complete Major Magnet Delivery for ITER
New England Wire Technologies in Lisbon, NH aided in the completion of a major milestone for US contributors to the ITER 
(International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) project. New England Wire produced over 22,000 feet of finished Toroidal Field (TF) cable that will be part of the ITER toroidal field magnet system. As the only US company awarded the contract to produce the finished cable, New England Wire completed all deliveries for ITER in November of 2016.
ITER, an unprecedented international collaboration to demonstrate sustained burning plasma—a necessary step for fusion energy development—is now under construction in France. The facility will use over 60,000 miles of low-temperature, helium-cooled superconducting wire to generate the immense toroidal magnetic fields needed to confine 150 million degree Celsius plasma inside the ITER tokamak. Eighteen toroidal field magnets will encircle the inside walls of the ten story tall machine. In total,the toroidal field coils will weigh more than 6500 tons, and will have a total magnetic energy of 41 gigajoules and a maximum magnetic field of 11.8 tesla. ITER is an extraordinary scientific partnership of 35 nations – including the United States, China, European Union, India, Japan, Korea, and Russia – demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy which offers the potential for clean, abundant, safe energy.
US ITER, managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge,TN is responsible for 8% of the toroidal field coil conductor required; the rest of the conductor will be supplied by other ITER member nations
In 2011, New England Wire Technologies was awarded the cable contract from the US Department of Energy. At the height of fabrication, New England Wire Technologies was cabling over 30,000,000 feet of conductor at their facilities in Lisbon and Littleton, New Hampshire. These final TF cables were shipped to an external casing, or jacketing, facility and the final conductor was then delivered to the ASG in LaSpezia, Italy, for winding.
As a partner in ITER, the US is providing hardware for multiple ITER systems. The US project will complete its next system contribution, components for the steady-state electrical network, later in 2017. Deliveries of toroidal field conductor from the US began in 2015.
For more information on the ITER project, click here.
Customer Supplied Materials and Toll Orders
New England Wire has years of experience working with customer-supplied materials as is evidenced by our long history in the Superconductor industry. In addition to cabling, taping or insulating your material, we are able to incorporate many customer-specific items into our custom cables. We have worked with items such as commodity-based cables (category cables, for example), fiber optics, vent tubes, specialty compounds and insulations, and proprietary alloy materials. While in our possession, your materials will be inspected, handled, and stored in accordance with our stringent material handling and processing requirements, so rest assured your materials will be treated with the respect and care they require.
For more information about incorporating a special or proprietary material into your custom cable project, please contact our technical sales department to discuss your specific application.