An inversion technique is presented for the local poloidal and toroidal rotation velocities and for the ion temperature from line integrated measurements performed on Tokamak de Varennes (TdeV) [R. Decoste and TdeV Team, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Seville, 1994 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1995) IAEA-CN-60/A4-11]. The velocity is obtained using two matrix inversions; the first for the emissivity and the second with the velocity weighted emissivity. The temperature is obtained with three matrix inversions: emissivity, temperature weighted emissivity and rotation velocity squared. The effect of the rotation velocity represents up to 16% in the ion temperature for TdeV plasmas. The local values obtained using the lengths matrix with the magnetic flux lines from the equilibrium code are compared with those obtained by a standard Abel inversion with circular flux lines. Differences up to 20% are observed between the emissivities deduced with circular and real flux lines, whereas the rotation velocity and the ion temperature are very similar. The technique was applied for the poloidal and toroidal geometry to determine the poloidal and toroidal velocities and the emission asymmetries. Top poloidal and toroidal emissivities present strong asymmetries due to the divertor plates and the X point whereas bottom poloidal and toroidal emissivities show an inner–outer symmetry, making the inversion more reliable in this region. A first approach to model the strong asymmetry was made assuming that the emissivity has both a radial and a poloidal dependence. The best result was obtained using a radial dependence and a peaked function of the poloidal angle for the poloidal asymmetric part of the emissivity. Both emissivity and velocity asymmetries are present in the upper part of the plasma implying that the X point behaves as a source. Examples of emissivities, rotation velocities and ion temperatures observed in TdeV plasmas in H and L (high and low confinement) modes with different bottom plasma triangularity are shown.
The most promising concept for deep fuelling a reactor is by the injection of compact toroid (CT) plasmoids. The first results showing CT fuelling of a tokamak plasma, without any adverse perturbation t o the tokamak discharge, are reported. The Compact Toroid Fueller (CTF) device was used to inject a CT-spheromak plasmoid into the TdeV tokamak. Following the CT penetration, the tokamak particle inventory increased by 16%, the loop voltage and the plasma current did not change, and there was no increase in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) activity. The number of injected impurities was low and dominated by non-metallic elements. The plasma diamagnetic energy and the energy confinement time increased by more than 35%.
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