Production of high density plasma by pellet injection in TFTR [electronic resource].
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- Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1985.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- Pages: 23 : digital, PDF file
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- High plasma densities have been produced in ohmic and neutral beam heated discharges on TFTR using a repeating pneumatic pellet injector developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Line average plasma densities as high as 1 x 10/sup 14/ cm/sup -3/ have been attained by injection of five 2.7 mm deuterium pellets ..delta..n/sub e/ = 2 x 10/sup 14/ cm/sup -3/ over a one-second interval into a stetched neutral beam pulse. Injection of a single large (4 mm) pellet in ohmic discharge has produced highly peaked profiles with nec(o) = 1.8 x 10/sup 14/ cm/sup -3/, n/sub e/(0) tau/sub E/(a) = 6.7 x 10/sup 13/ cm/sup -3/ and n/sub D/(0)Ti(0)tau/sub E/(a) = 8.8 x 10/sup 13/ cm/sup -3/ sKeV. Global confinement in these discharges approaches 0.45 seconds with a central density decay time of 2 seconds. Based on a neoclassical resistivity model and x-ray pulse-height analysis, zeff is <2 in both ohmic and beam-heated plasmas. The energy confinement properties of intermediate density (n/sub e/ (0) = 1 x 10/sup 14/ cm/sup -3/) full beam power (5.7 MW, 80 KVD/sup 0/) discharge have been studied in detail using the TRANSP code. Although the global energy confinement (approx. =2 oums at IP = 2.2 MA) is comparable to gas-fueled discharges, the confinement in the central core is considerably longer and electron heat conduction losses are smaller.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:conf-8510266-5
conf-8510266-5 - Subject(s)
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1985.
"conf-8510266-5"
"DE86014027"
International pellet fueling workshop, La Jolla, CA, USA, 30 Oct 1985.
Johnson, D.; Park, H.; Schmidt, G.L.; Mansfield, D.; Milora, S.L.; Combs, S.K.; Bush, C.E.; Hawryluk, R.J.; Goldston, R.J.; Grek, B. - Funding Information
- AC05-84OR21400
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