ECRH/EBWH SYSTEM FOR NSTX-

Taylor, G. ; Ellis, R. A. ; Harvey, R. W. ; Hosea, J. C. ; Smirnov, A. P.

Princeton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory.

关键词: 70 Plasma Physics And Fusion Technology Nstx;    Nstx;   

RP-ID  :  PPPL-4768
RP-ID  :  DE-ACO2-09CH11466
RP-ID  :  1062542

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) will operate at an axial toroidal field of up to 1 T, about twice the field available on NSTX. A 28 GHz electron cylotron resonance heating (ECRH) system is currently being planned for NSTX-U. A 1 MW 28 GHz gyrotron will be employed. Intially the system will use short, 10-50 ms, 1 MW pulses for ECRH-assisted discharge start-up. Later the pulse length will be extended to 1-5 s to study electron Bernstein wave heating (EBWH) during the plasma current flat top. A mirror launcher will be used to couple microwave power to the plasma via O-mode to the slow X-mode to EBW (O-X-B) double mode conversion. This paper presents a pre-conceptual design for the ECRH/EBWH system proposed for NSTX-U and includes ray tracing and Fokker-Planck modeling results for 28 GHz ECRH during plasma start-up and EBW heating and current drive during the plasma current flattop of a NSTX-U advanced H-mode plasma scenario.