A magnet designed for use in a magnetic refrigeration device is presented. The magnet is designed by applying two general schemes for improving a magnet design to a concentric Halbach cylinder magnet design and dimensioning and segmenting this design in an optimum way followed by the construction of the actual magnet. The final design generates a peak value of 1.24 T, an average flux density of 0.9 T in a volume of 2 L using only 7.3 L of magnet, and has an average low flux density of 0.08 T also in a 2 L volume. The working point of all the permanent magnet blocks in the design is very close to the maximum energy density. The final design is characterized in terms of a performance parameter, and it is shown that it is one of the best performing magnet designs published for magnetic refrigeration.
@article{arxiv.1410.1987,
title = {An optimized magnet for magnetic refrigeration},
author = {R. Bjørk and C. R. H. Bahl and A. Smith and D. V. Christensen and N. Pryds},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1987},
year = {2014}
}