Study on Bi-2212 Rutherford cabling process for SMES

The important merit of Bi-2212/Ag high T_c superconducting wire is to apply cable as round wire geometry. Bi-2212/Ag wires were fabricated in order to develop Rutherford cable for SMES near the future. Various Ag ratio and various numbers of filaments for PIT (Powder-In-Tube) process were applied to investigate the workability during drawing and to improve critical current property of the wires. Rutherford cabling machine for B-2212/Ag strands was designed and manufactured. We designed and manufactured Rutherford cabling machine with 32 bobbins which had 2 km length of wire. This machine was constituted with Turks head, caterpillar tread and take-up facility. In order to obtain uniform working conditions without defects, Turks head's rolling system and Ag ratio of Bi-2212/Ag strands were modified. We tried to fabricate Rutherford cables with 20 and 30 Bi-2212 strands. Proper working conditions for without breakage strand in cable were investigated. We made successfully Bi-2212 Rutherford cable. The critical current of Bi-2212 Rutherford cable with 30 strands showed 420 A at 64 K and 4008 A at 4.2 K. The critical current of Bi-2212/Ag wire with 847 filaments was 398 A at 4.2 K and self field.