L. Zakharov, S. Putvinski, A. Kukushkin, R. Pitts, M. Sugihara, S. Maruyama, S. Konovalov, V. Lukash
{"title":"High pressure gas injection for suppression of runaway electrons in disruptions","authors":"L. Zakharov, S. Putvinski, A. Kukushkin, R. Pitts, M. Sugihara, S. Maruyama, S. Konovalov, V. Lukash","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052212","url":null,"abstract":"A new scheme for suppression of runaway electrons in ITER disruptions is proposed. It is based on maintaining the magnetic perturbations during the entire current quench phase by exciting kink modes using repetitive high pressure gas injection to the plasma edge. The total amount of gas injected is expected to be compatible with the ITER pumping system .","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122480449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ITER Central Solenoid support structure analysis","authors":"K. Freudenberg, R. Myatt","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052298","url":null,"abstract":"The ITER Central Solenoid (CS) is comprised of six independent coils held together by a pre-compression support structure. This structure must provide enough preload to maintain sufficient coil-to-coil contact and interface load throughout the current pulse. End of burn (EOB) represents one of the most extreme time-points during the reference scenario when the currents in the CS3 coils oppose those of CS1 & CS2. The CS structure is performance limited by the room temperature static yield requirements needed to support the roughly 180 MN preload to resist coil separation during operation. This preload is applied by inner and external tie plates along the length of the coil stack by mechanical fastening methods utilizing Superbolt® technology. The preloading structure satisfies the magnet structural design criteria of ITER and will be verified during mockup studies. The solenoid is supported from the bottom of the toroidal field (TF) coil casing in both the vertical radial directions. The upper support of the CS coil structure maintains radial registration with the TF coil in the event of vertical disruptions (VDE) loads and earthquakes. All of these structure systems are analyzed via a global finite element analysis (FEA). The model includes a complete sector of the TF coil and the CS coil/structure in one self-consistent analysis. The corresponding results and design descriptions are described in this report.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123382522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Brown, L. Bromberg, A. Costley, R. Goldston, L. El-Guebaly, C. Kessel, G. Neilson, S. Malang, J. Menard, S. Prager, S. Scott, L. Waganer, M. Zarnstorff
{"title":"An overview of Pilot Plant designs based on the advanced tokamak, spherical tokamak and stellarator","authors":"T. Brown, L. Bromberg, A. Costley, R. Goldston, L. El-Guebaly, C. Kessel, G. Neilson, S. Malang, J. Menard, S. Prager, S. Scott, L. Waganer, M. Zarnstorff","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052269","url":null,"abstract":"A fusion pilot plant study was initiated to evaluate the potential benefits of following the fission development path as an approach for the commercialization of fusion. In such an approach, a fusion pilot plant would bridge the development needs in moving from ITER to a first of a kind fusion power plant. The pilot plant mission would encompass the component test and fusion nuclear science missions yet produce net electricity. In the first phase of the study scoping designs were developed for three different magnetic configuration options: the advanced tokamak (AT), spherical tokamak (ST) and compact stellarator (CS). Critical component features have been added to the designs that impact the general arrangement and maintenance characteristics of each device. The requirements specified in defining the pilot plant challenge the machine configurations developed for each option. Developing multiple options with a consistent set of requirements enables a uniform comparison of configuration and component issues that drive each design. This paper will provide an engineering design overview of each option, address open issues and assess where further work is needed to meet the pilot plant objectives.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123037208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Heim, S. Gonderman, C. Taylor, J. Allain, Z. Yang, M. González, E. Collins, C. Skinner, B. Ellis, W. Blanchard, L. Roquemore, H. Kugel, R. Martín
{"title":"The Materials Analysis patticle Probe (MAPP) diagnostic system in NSTX","authors":"B. Heim, S. Gonderman, C. Taylor, J. Allain, Z. Yang, M. González, E. Collins, C. Skinner, B. Ellis, W. Blanchard, L. Roquemore, H. Kugel, R. Martín","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052303","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium conditioning of plasma-facing surfaces (PFS) has been implemented in NSTX leading to improvements in plasma performance such as reduced D recycling and a reduction in edge localized modes (ELMS). Analysis of post-mortem tiles and offline experiments has identified interactions between Li-O-D and Li-C-D as chemical channels for deuterium retention in ATJ graphite. MAPP is the first in-vacuo surface analysis diagnostic directly integrated into a tokamak and capable of shot-to-shot chemical surface analysis of plasma material interactions (PMI). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and low energy ion surface spectroscopy (LEISS) can show the chemical functionalities between D and lithiated graphite at both the near surface (5–10 nm) and top surface layer (0.3–0.6 nm) for XPS and LEISS respectively. MAPP will correlate plasma facing component (PFC) surface chemistry with plasma performance to lead the way to improved understanding of plasma-surface interactions and their effect on global plasma performance. Remote operation and data acquisition, integrated into NSTX diagnostic and interlocks, make MAPP an advanced PMI diagnostic with stringent engineering constraints.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131542809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Kajiwara, Kazuo Hayashi, Y. Oda, Koji Takahashi, A. Kasugai, K. Sakamoto
{"title":"5kHz modulation of 170 GHz gyrotron with anode-cathode short-circuited switch","authors":"K. Kajiwara, Kazuo Hayashi, Y. Oda, Koji Takahashi, A. Kasugai, K. Sakamoto","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052214","url":null,"abstract":"A high speed modulation method is proposed for a triode gyrotron. An anode voltage modulation for on/off output RF power modulation with cathode-anode short-circuited switch is demonstrated with full beam current suppression by shorting the cathode and the anode electrodes by the switch. 5kHz modulation is successfully achieved with the power of 1.16 MW and 40 sec. The electron beam from the cathode is completely suppressed during the turn off phase. This is the first 5 kHz modulation experiments with full current suppression for high power (more than 1 MW) with long pulse. On the start up phase of the each pulse, the TE30,8 mode is generated instead of the TE31,8 of the main mode. This was caused by the slight drift of the anode-cathode voltage or/and electron beam current during the flat top of the turn on phase. In order to improve it, a new circuit configuration and a new anode power supply is proposed.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128466452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advanced concepts for fusion power supplies","authors":"X. Yao, Y. Huang, F. Guo, J. Wang","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052200","url":null,"abstract":"Nuclear fusion reactors, such as the Tokamak in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, usually involve extremely sophisticated high voltage power supply systems, which provide exciting research challenges. In the short term, the major challenges in power supplies of the ITER and other fusion reactors include 1) fast current control of Vertical Stabilization (VS) coils; and 2) dynamic compensation of reactive power and harmonics. In the long term, the power supply systems in fusion reactors provide opportunities for optimizations at both component and system levels. In this paper, modular multilevel converters (M2LC) are adopted to tackle the short term challenges. Circuit structures, PWM methods, and fault tolerant operation strategies are presented. The configuration and control strategies of M2LC in VS coils are fully studied and verified with real time simulations. Compared with existing circuit solutions in fusion reactors, the M2LC based circuits will have better dynamic response, higher reliability, smaller footprint, and reduced weight. As an outlook to the long term developments of the fusion power supplies, comprehensive real time simulations are also discussed at the end of the paper.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114522761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Pradhan, A. Sharma, V. Tanna, Z. Khan, U. Prasad, D. Raval, F. Khan, N. Gupta, J. Tank, M. Gupta, P. Santra, P. Biswas, H. Masand, D. Sharma, A. Srivastava, H. Patel
{"title":"SST-1status & plans","authors":"S. Pradhan, A. Sharma, V. Tanna, Z. Khan, U. Prasad, D. Raval, F. Khan, N. Gupta, J. Tank, M. Gupta, P. Santra, P. Biswas, H. Masand, D. Sharma, A. Srivastava, H. Patel","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052353","url":null,"abstract":"Steady State Tokamak (SST-1) is currently being refurbished in a mission mode at the Institute for Plasma Research with an ultimate objective of producing the first plasma in early 2012. Since Jan 2009, under the SST-1 Mission mandate, a broad spectrum of refurbishment activities have been initiated and pursued on several subsystems of SST-1. Developing sub nano-ohm leak tight joints in the magnet winding packs, developing single phased LN2 cooled thermal shields, developing supercritical helium cooled 5 K thermal shields for magnet cases, insurance of thermal and electrical isolations between various sub-systems of SST-1, testing of each of the SST-1 Toroidal Field (TF) magnets in cold with nominal currents, testing each of the modules and octants of SST-1 machine shell in representative experimentally simulated scenarios, augmentation and reliability establishment of the SST-1 vacuum vessel baking system, time synchronizations amongst various heterogeneous subsystems of SST-1, large data storage scenarios, integrated engineering testing of the first phase of the plasma diagnostics etc are some of the major refurbishment activities. Presently, the SST-1 device integration is in full swing. The cold test of the assembled SST-1 TF and PF magnets are due to begin from Dec 2011. Following the successful testing of the SST-1 superconducting magnet system and engineering validations of the machine shell, the first plasmas will be attempted in SST-1. The first plasma will be ∼ 100 kA limiter assisted with the available volt-sec and could possibly be assisted by ECCD/LHCD.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115853990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Baylor, S. Meitner, C. Barbier, S. Combs, R. Duckworth, T. G. Edgemon, D. Fehling, D. Rasmussen, M. Hechler, R. Kersevan, M. Dremel, R. Pearce, J. Boisson
{"title":"Cryogenic viscous compressor development and modeling for the ITER vacuum system","authors":"L. Baylor, S. Meitner, C. Barbier, S. Combs, R. Duckworth, T. G. Edgemon, D. Fehling, D. Rasmussen, M. Hechler, R. Kersevan, M. Dremel, R. Pearce, J. Boisson","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052261","url":null,"abstract":"The ITER vacuum system requires a roughing pump system that can pump the exhaust gas from the torus cryopumps to the tritium exhaust processing plant. The gas will have a high tritium content and therefore conventional vacuum pumps are not suitable. A pump called a cryogenic viscous compressor (CVC) is being designed for the roughing system to pump from ∼500 Pa to 10 Pa at flow rates of 200 Pa-m3/s. A unique feature of this pump is that it allows any helium in the gas to flow through the pump where it is sent to the detritiation system before exhausting to atmosphere. A small scale prototype of the CVC is being tested for heat transfer characteristics and compared to modeling results to ensure reliable operation of the full scale CVC.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123849810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New developments for real time plasma control system on HL-2A","authors":"F. Xia, Li Zhao, Liao-yuan Chen","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052254","url":null,"abstract":"With more and more complicated codes and control algorithm are being introduced into the plasma control system (PCS) which is a real-time, basic and complex system in HL-2A, it is becoming more and more necessary to reorganize the PCS in order to make it more flexible and effective. Some progress has been made recently for this purpose. A real time operation system that is based on Ubuntu Linux patched by Xenomai code becomes the platform for the plasma control algorithm instead of the DOS operation system at present and the platform for the plasma shape identification code in the future. The real time network consists of reflective memory (RFM) cards take the place of the signal cables for data transmitting in real time plasma control. The real time data acquisition system for plasma control is separated as a single crate where NI RT system deployed. The details of the new developments for HL-2A are described in this paper.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128942982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Gao, L. Huang, L. Tang, L.S. Wang, S. He, P. Fu
{"title":"Upgrade of converter unit of EAST poloidal field power supply","authors":"G. Gao, L. Huang, L. Tang, L.S. Wang, S. He, P. Fu","doi":"10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052228","url":null,"abstract":"Two converter units of EAST poloidal coil power supply have been upgraded last year. It is now rated at 1100 V in no-load voltage and ±15 kA in DC current. The topology has been changed to back to back bridge from same-phase antiparallel connection and a compact-PCI bus based local controller has been employed to meet the real-time requirement of 1 ms control cycle. In this paper, first, the design, analysis and simulation on this converter system are introduced. Then, details of the converter module, controller, monitoring and data acquirement are presented. Lastly, the test result of current and voltage during EAST 2010 autumn campaign is introduced. The result shows that the design meets the requirement.","PeriodicalId":393592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128304475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}