Handing over to industry
4 Nov 2011
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Jeremy Goff, Coil Power Supply Section
The participants to the meeting with the CEO of Dawonsys, Sun-Soon Park, Jong-Seok Oh from the Korean Domestic Agency, DDG Yong-Hwan Kim and Ivone Benfatto, head of the Electrical Engineering Division, together with the team from ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, and industry.
This week saw a great step forward in the evolution of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ coil power supplies and pulsed power distribution systems. The Procurement Arrangement with the Korean Domestic Agency for the AC/DC converters (signed in March this year) had led to the selection and award of a contract in August to a consortium led by Dawonsys Co. Ltd. who will design and build the converters, and Hyosung Co. Ltd. who will design and build the converter transformers.
Since the contract kick-off meeting in September, the consortium has performed an enormous amount of preliminary design work, fault analysis, simulations, and configuration checks; the full status report was made during a three-day meeting at Cadarache this week with the Coil Power Supply Section (Electrical Engineering Division, EED). They presented a 3D model showing the latest configuration based on the R&D result of a prototype converter unit.
The objectives of the face-to-face meeting were to ensure an efficient start of contract activities and follow up work to be performed by the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, to identify any issues to be resolved and, of course, to begin the best working relationship between ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ and the Domestic Agency's industrial partners.