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| Bilfinger Berger: High-tech magnets for particle accelerator German builder Bilfinger Berger has underscored its leading international position as a high-technology supplier in magnet technology with a new order: The company will deliver 113 non-planar supra conducting magnet coils with a contract value of €20 million for a research facility at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research. The high-tech magnets are a central component of the "FAIR" accelerator facility in Darmstadt, Germany – one of the largest research centers in the world. Babcock Noell, the Group company responsible for the project and a subsidiary of Bilfinger Berger Power Services GmbH, is a global leader in the production of supra conducting magnet systems. With the crucial expertise the company has at its disposal, it has already worked on a number of important projects in nuclear fusion and particle research, including LHC, XFEL, PETRA, ITER, W-7X and JET. In close cooperation with major research institutes, Babcock Noell develops magnet systems, constructs prototypes and guides them through to series production. The order volume for Bilfinger Berger in this area totals about €200 million over the last ten years. At "FAIR", the magnets keep atoms that are accelerated by electrical fields on a fixed path and thus make an unprecedented variety of experiments possible, many of which will provide insight into the structure of matter and the origin of the universe. Each of the so-called SIS100 magnets is three meters long and weighs about two tons. The key feature of the high-tech magnet system is the adjustable magnetic field it generates on the basis of supra conduction. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Construction News :: home page |