Development and integration of a 50 Hz pellet injection system for the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)

Yao, Xingjia; Chen, Yue; Hu, Jiansheng; Vinyar, I.; Lukin, A. Ya.; Yuan, Xin; Li, Changzheng; Liu, Haiqing

doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2016.11.014

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“…Hence, cryogenic pellet injection (PI) has become the preferred plasma core fuelling method. It is a well-developed technology with new systems being installed or developed for various magnetic confinement devices [6][7][8][9].…”

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The impact of fast electrons on pellet injection in the stellarator TJ-II

McCarthy¹,

Panadero²,

Combs

et al. 2018

Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion

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Efficient plasma core fuelling is a critical issue for achieving steady-state scenarios in magnetically confined fusion devices. The current preferred method to achieve this goal is cryogenic pellet injection (PI). PI's are now installed in most medium-and large-sized fusion devices. In this paper, recent results from PI experiments in the stellarator TJ-II are reported. Of particular interest is the influence of fast electrons. Whilst edge populations of such electrons do not affect PI in the TJ-II, fast electrons residing in its hot core have significant influence on both pellet ablation and fuelling efficiency. If present in the core, their radial location can be determined from the light emission profile produced by an ablating pellet as it traverses the plasma and confirmed from the power spectral distribution spectrograph of the total secondary beam current collected by a scanning heavy ion beam probe system. Moreover, it is found that if a pellet is subject to excess ablation due to core fast electron impacts, the resultant pellet efficiency (deposited particles/delivered particles) increases by up to 50% with respect to injections into similar, fast-electron free, plasmas. This is consistently found for microwaveheated plasmas, where pellet penetration is shallower than the magnetic axis in TJ-II, when such a population is present, as well as for neutral beam created and heated plasmas in which fast-electrons, generated during magnetic field ramp-up, persist in the core along a discharge. Similarly, when polystyrene pellets (TESPEL) are injected into the same machine sector, an analogous increase in post-injection particle deposition is seen. It is postulated that vaporization of the pellet through heating by fast electrons modifies normal neutral cloud and plasmoid development and hence affects outwards drifting that is inherent to magnetic fusion devices.

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