Archivio Istituzionale della RicercaThe paper discusses the characterization of the three high power steady-state and load-resilient ICRF launchers of WEST before their installation in the tokamak. These launchers have been characterized and validated in low-power experiments (milliwatt range) as well as in experiments at the nominal RF voltages and currents in the TITAN vacuum chamber (~30 kV and 915 A peak). The successful commissioning of two of the launchers during the WEST C3 campaign at ~1 MW power level is illustrated. Manual and real-time controlled impedance-matching of the launchers are discussed, as well as the validation of their load-resilience. Furthermore, several redundant and complementary protection systems have been validated and are reviewed in the paper.
Characterizations and first plasma operation of the WEST load-resilient actively cooled ICRF launchers / Helou, W., Durodie, F., Hillairet, J., Lerche, E., Lombard, G., Milanesio, D., Mollard, P., Bernard, J.-M., Charabot, N., Clairet, F., Colas, L., Moudden, Y., Santraine, B., Song, Y.T., Urbanczyk, G., Volpe, R., Wang, Y.S., Yang, Q.X., Bobkov, V.. - ELETTRONICO. - 2254:(2020), p. 030009. (23rd Topical Conference on Radiofrequency Power in Plasmas Hefei, China 2019) [10.1063/5.0013992].
Characterizations and first plasma operation of the WEST load-resilient actively cooled ICRF launchers
Milanesio D.;
2020
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The paper discusses the characterization of the three high power steady-state and load-resilient ICRF launchers of WEST before their installation in the tokamak. These launchers have been characterized and validated in low-power experiments (milliwatt range) as well as in experiments at the nominal RF voltages and currents in the TITAN vacuum chamber (~30 kV and 915 A peak). The successful commissioning of two of the launchers during the WEST C3 campaign at ~1 MW power level is illustrated. Manual and real-time controlled impedance-matching of the launchers are discussed, as well as the validation of their load-resilience. Furthermore, several redundant and complementary protection systems have been validated and are reviewed in the paper.
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