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Testbed for the Pellet Launching System for JT-60SA

Ploeckl, B. ; Lang, P. T.; Day, Chr ORCID iD icon 1; Giegerich, Th 1; Phillips, G.; Piccinni, C.; Tretter, J.
1 Institut für Technische Physik (ITEP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

As part of the European contribution to the large size superconducting tokamak project JT-60SA, a new Pellet Launching System (PLS) is designed and built. The aims of the PLS are to provide efficient fuelling to the plasma and to control and mitigate Edge Localised Modes (ELMs). Two pellet sources, one for fuelling pellets, one for pacing pellets, are delivering pellets to a centrifuge launcher. The centrifuge enables precise launch of pellets according to already proven control schemes. Furthermore, this system opens a way towards a test bed for the EU-DEMO fuelling system. The new PLS has to be completed and commissioned first at the IPP Garching pellet lab and then to be shipped to QST Naka site after having demonstrated its performance. This dedicated test bed has been set up, providing suitable vacuum conditions to operate the PLS in similar conditions (except magnetic field and radiation). Maximum hydrogen throughput is about 400 mbar·L/s per pellet source. Safety issues must be considered for hydrogen inventory of pellet sources (∼100 bar·L each). In a first step, the pellet sources will be put on a test vessel providing inherent safety by a huge volume (10 m³) which makes sure that the hydrogen concentration is below 1% under all circumstances. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000154018
Veröffentlicht am 05.01.2023
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Technische Physik (ITEP)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 01.2023
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0920-3796, 1873-7196
KITopen-ID: 1000154018
HGF-Programm 31.13.01 (POF IV, LK 01) Ex-Vessel Plant Systems & Engineering
Erschienen in Fusion Engineering and Design
Verlag Elsevier
Band 186
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 113370
Projektinformation EUROfusion (EU, EU 9. RP, 101052200)
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