期刊
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 54, 期 11, 页码 4102-4110出版社
KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2022.06.003
关键词
Lower hybrid current drive; Hot spots; Fast electrons; Long -pulse operation; Tokamak
资金
- Performance Improvement Project of EAST, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11775259, 11805233, 11675214, 11175206, 11275233]
- National Mag- netic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China [2015GB102003]
- Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology Program of China [2018-000052-73-01-001228]
In recent years, improvements have been made to the 2.45 GHz and 4.6 GHz lower hybrid (LH) systems, including upgrading the guard limiters of the LH antennas to tungsten material, upgrading the launcher of the 2.45 GHz system, and changing the location of the ICRF launcher. These improvements have enhanced the power capability and coupling effect of the systems.
Aiming at high-power and long-pulse operation up to 1000 s, some improvements have been made for both 2.45 GHz and 4.6 GHz lower hybrid (LH) systems during the recent 5 years. At first, the guard limiters of the LH antennas with graphite tiles were upgraded to tungsten, the most promising material for plasma facing components in nuclear fusion devices. These new guard limiters can operate at a peak power density of 12.9 MW/m2. Strong hot spots were usually observed on the old graphite limiters when 4.6 GHz system operated with power >2.0 MW [B. N. Wan et al., Nucl. Fusion 57 (2017) 102019], leading to a reduction of the maximum power capability. With the new limiters, 4.6 GHz LH system, the main current drive (CD) and electron heating tool for EAST, can be operated with power >2.5 MW routinely. Long-pulse operation up to 100 s with 4.6 GHz LH power of 2.4 MW was achieved in 2021 and the maximal temperature on the guard limiters measured by an infrared (IR) camera was about 540 degrees C, much below the permissible value of tungsten material (-1200 degrees C). A discharge with a duration of 1056 s was achieved and the 4.6 GHz LH energy injected into the plasma was up to 1.05 GJ. Secondly, the fully-active-multijunction (FAM) launcher of 2.45 GHz system was upgraded to a passive-active-multijunction (PAM), for which the density of optimum coupling was relatively low (below the cut-off value). Good coupling with reflection coefficient-3% has been achieved with plasma-antenna distance up to 11 cm for the new PAM. Finally, in order to eliminate the effect of ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) wave on 4.6 GHz LH wave coupling, the location of the ICRF launcher was changed to a port that is located 157.5 degrees toroidally from the 4.6 GHz LH system and is not magnetically connected.(c) 2022 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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