Design and engineering of the Alcator C-Mod lower hybrid current drive system

G.D. Loesser1, J. Rushinski1, S. Bernabei1, J.C. Hosea1, J.R. Wilson1, B. Beck2, R. Parker2
1PPPL, Princeton University, USA
2PSFC, MIT, USA

Tóm tắt

The PSFC group of MIT and PPPL are jointly developing a Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) system for installation on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, with the primary goal of driving plasma current. Twelve Klystrons will feed a coupler with an input power of 3 MW at 4.6 GHz and a pulse length of 5 seconds. The coupler is composed of 4 arrays, each with 24 wave-guides (96 total) which are stacked poloidally and are symmetric about both the vertical and horizontal planes. The four-stacked arrays are installed through a single equatorial port and can be axially adjusted to provide optimum plasma coupling. Material selections and spatial limitations required innovative design solutions that will be described.

Từ khóa

#Design engineering #Plasma waves #Plasma sources #Klystrons #Feeds #Plasma temperature #Frequency #Physics #Plasma diagnostics #Plasma stability

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