Upgrade of Doublet III neutral beam injection to long pulse operation [electronic resource].
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- Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1981.
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- Pages: 6 : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators:
- United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary:
- Long pulse physics questions have been raised for auxiliary heated plasma discharges in Tokamaks. A one-second pulse encloses present experiments and is adequate for studying quasi-steady-state operation, whereas, a 5 to 10 second pulse may be required to examine impurity effects of plasma-wall interaction and current profile relaxation. In order to sustain heating in the multi-second pulse range, neutral beam devices must be capable of the same pulse durations. By upgrading the beam collimators, and ion source components, the Doublet III neutral beam injectors can be made to operate with pulses up to 5 seconds in duration with the interpulse period extended to maintain approximately the same duty factor. The scope of the upgrading includes (1) exchanging the accelerator section of the ion source with one having actively cooled tubular grids, and (2) removing or replacing collimators where necessary to stay below 600/sup 0/C peak temperature. An actively cooled ion dump is necessary for pulses substantially longer than 5 seconds. Effects of drift duct choking and induced eddy currents in the cryopanels were examined and found to have a negligible effect on operating the neutral beam injectors up to 5 second pulse duration.
- Report Numbers:
- E 1.99:ga-a-16548
E 1.99: conf-811040-142
conf-811040-142
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
10/01/1981.
"ga-a-16548"
" conf-811040-142"
"DE82006962"
9. symposium on engineering problems of fusion research, Chicago, IL, USA, 26 Oct 1981.
Doll, D. W.; McColl, D. B.; Pipkins, J. F.
General Atomic Co., San Diego, CA (USA) - Funding Information:
- AT03-80SF11512
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