100-Tesla Magnet Project Another Step Closer to Completion
April 11, 2006
Contact:
Susan Ray, (850) 644-9651
sray@magnet.fsu.edu
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — The high-consequence lift of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory/Department of Energy 100-tesla-magnet’s outer-coil set was safely completed this week at the lab’s Pulsed Field Facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Weighing in at 18,000 pounds, the outer coil set – holding coils three through seven – used 90 percent of the crane’s rated capacity.
100 Tesla project group.
Pictured from left to right: Jim Sims, Dwight Rickel, James Michel, Darrell Roybal, Ernie Serna and Mike Pacheco. Curtt Ammerman, a significant contributor to the 100-tesla project, took the picture.
The lift went smoothly and without incident. The section was lifted off the assembly stand, then over the cell maze wall, translated into the cell and lowered into the dewar vessel. The section registered precisely into support features within the dewar.
Alex Lacerda, associate director for user operations for all three Magnet Lab sites and director of the Pulsed Field Facility, said that when completed, the 100 T will represent a new technological limit.
"It’s something our users want, and it’s something that, because of significant advances in pulsed-magnet design, we can deliver," said Lacerda. "Thanks to the many people involved in the engineering, design, assembly, planning and rigging, the 100 T is becoming a reality at the Pulsed Field Facility."
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (www.magnet.fsu.edu) develops and operates state-of-the-art high-magnetic-field facilities that faculty and visiting scientists and engineers use for research in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry, and materials science. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the state of Florida, the lab is operated by Florida State University, and its 330,000-square-foot main facility is located in Tallahassee's Innovation Park. The magnet lab also has facilities at the University of Florida and at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
