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Sawtooth pacing with on-axis ICRH modulation in JET-ILW

Jonathan Graves

A novel technique for sawteeth control in tokamak plasmas using ion-cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) has been developed in the JET-ILW tokamak. Unlike previous ICRH methods, that explored the destabilization of the internal kink mode when the radio-frequ ...

2017

Real-time control of ELM and sawtooth frequencies: similarities and differences

Jonathan Graves

ELMs and Sawteeth, located in different parts of the plasma, are similar from a control engineering point of view. Both manifest themselves through quiescent periods interrupted by periodic collapses. For both, large collapses, following long quiescent per ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Multi-device studies of pedestal physics and confinement in the I-mode regime

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alessandro Marinoni

This paper describes joint ITPA studies of the I-mode regime, which features an edge thermal barrier together with L-mode-like particle and impurity transport and no edge localized modes (ELMs). The regime has been demonstrated on the Alcator C-Mod, ASDEX ...

2016

Status of the ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive System

Timothy Goodman

The electron cyclotron (EC) heating and current drive (H&CD) system developed for the ITER is made of 12 sets of high-voltage power supplies feeding 24 gyrotrons connected through 24 transmission lines (TL), to five launchers, four located in upper ports a ...

Springer2016

Optimization of ICRH for core impurity control in JET-ILW

Jonathan Graves

Ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating has been an essential component in the development of high power H-mode scenarios in the Jet European Torus ITER-like wall (JET-ILW). The ICRF performance was improved by enhancing the antenna-plasma couplin ...

iop2016

Novel aspects of plasma control in ITER

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Sun Hee Kim

ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of operational discharges. In addition, high plasma energy content, heat fluxes, neutron ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Real-Time Control of Sawteeth and NTMs in TCV and ITER

Doohyun Kim

The main goal of this thesis is to demonstrate the capability of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) instability control, particularly sawteeth and neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs), in order to achieve high performance operation. Experiments and simulations have b ...

EPFL2015

Progress in the ITER electron cyclotron heating and current drive system design

Timothy Goodman

An electron cyclotron system is one of the four auxiliary plasma heating systems to be installed on the ITER tokamak. The ITER EC system consists of 24 gyrotrons with associated 12 high voltage power supplies, a set of evacuated transmission lines and two ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Technological and physics assessments on heating and current drive systems for DEMO

Minh Quang Tran, Laurie Porte, Hartmut Zohm, Emanuele Poli, Giovanni Tardini

The physics requirements of the heating and current (H&CD) systems in a Demonstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) are often beyond the actual level of design maturity and technology readiness required. The recent EU fusion roadmap advocates a pragmatic appro ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Preliminary conceptual design of DEMO EC system

Minh Quang Tran

In the framework of EUROfusion Consortium the Work Package Heating and Current Drive addresses the engineering design and R&D for the electron cyclotron, ion cyclotron and neutral beam systems. This paper reports the activities performed in 2014, focusing ...

2015