Wendelstein Engineering Schematics
Wendelstein is a 1 838 metre high 6 030 ft mountain in the bavarian alps in south germany.
Wendelstein engineering schematics. Installers and service technicians on site can easily switch from the fluid plan to the schematics and to the cabinet. Wendelstein rack railway cogwheels valley station. The wendelstein 7 x w7 x reactor is an experimental stellarator built in greifswald germany by the max planck institute of plasma physics ipp and completed in october 2015. With seven tunnels eight galleries twelve bridges and costly retaining or supporting walls.
Thanks to their close collaboration they have always found new solutions to the many engineering problems and in the end produced optimal results. It was developed based on. For projects of this magnitude and such a long duration milestones such as the. Respective schematics and cabinet layouts.
Wendelstein 7 x and fusion at the cutting edge of technology. The wendelstein rack railway german. The plasma experiments in the wendelstein 7 x fusion device at max planck institute for plasma physics ipp in greifswald germany have been resumed after a 15 month conversion break. Brannenburg from 1910 till 1912 otto von steinbeis constructed the first railway of this kind in the german alps.
Its purpose is to advance stellarator technology though this experimental reactor will not produce electricity it is used to evaluate the main components of a future fusion power plant. Help in engineering and documentation explains jörg schacht. Wendelstein 7 x as examples. It s hard to imagine today how 800 predominantly bosnian workers succeeded at that time in building a railway route of 9 95 km.
Wendelsteinbahn sometimes just referred to as the wendelstein railway is an electrically driven metre gauge rack railway with several adhesion sections that runs up the wendelstein in the upper bavarian limestone alps together with the wendelstein cable car wendelstein seilbahn it is operated by the wendelsteinbahn gmbh. Wendelstein 7 x w7 x is the largest fusion device of the stellarator. It is part of the mangfall mountains the eastern part of the bavarian pre alps and is the highest peak in the wendelstein massif it lies between the valleys of the leitzach and inn and is accessible via the wendelstein cable car and the wendelstein rack railway.