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Conceptual design of reciprocating probes and material-testing manipulator for tokamak COMPASS Upgrade

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    SYSNO ASEP0555588
    Document TypeJ - Journal Article
    R&D Document TypeJournal Article
    Subsidiary JČlánek ve WOS
    TitleConceptual design of reciprocating probes and material-testing manipulator for tokamak COMPASS Upgrade
    Author(s) Lukeš, S. (CZ)
    Horáček, Jan (UFP-V) RID, ORCID
    Veselovský, Viktor (UFP-V)
    Vondráček, Petr (UFP-V) RID, ORCID
    Šesták, David (UFP-V) RID
    Adámek, Jiří (UFP-V) RID, ORCID
    Weinzettl, Vladimír (UFP-V) RID, ORCID
    Ďuran, Ivan (UFP-V) RID, ORCID
    Number of authors8
    Article numberC02007
    Source TitleJournal of Instrumentation. - : Institute of Physics Publishing - ISSN 1748-0221
    Roč. 17, č. 2 (2022)
    Number of pages7 s.
    ActionEuropean Conference on Plasma Diagnostics
    Event date07.06.2021 - 11.06.2021
    VEvent locationonline
    CountryCZ - Czech Republic
    Event typeEUR
    Languageeng - English
    CountryGB - United Kingdom
    KeywordsNuclear instruments and methods for hot plasma diagnostics ; Overall mechanics design (support structures and materials, vibration analysis etc.) ; Plasma diagnostics probes
    Subject RIVBL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics
    OECD categoryFluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
    R&D ProjectsEF16_019/0000768 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
    GA22-03950S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
    Method of publishingLimited access
    Institutional supportUFP-V - RVO:61389021
    UT WOS000791423900012
    EID SCOPUS85125640769
    DOI10.1088/1748-0221/17/02/C02007
    AnnotationThree new in-vessel manipulators are designed and built for the new COMPASS Upgrade tokamak with uniquely high vessel temperature (250-500 °C) and heat flux density (perpendicular to divertor surface q ⊥ ∼80 MW/m2 and q ∼GW/m2 at separatrix), which challenges the edge plasma diagnostics. Here we show their detailed engineering designs supported by heat conduction and mechanical models. Deep reciprocation of electrostatic probes near the separatrix should be possible by optimizing older concepts in (a) the head and probe geometry, (b) strongly increasing the deceleration up to 100× gravity by springs and strengthening the manipulator mechanical structure. One reciprocates close to the region of edge plasma influx (the outer midplane), the other at the plasma sink (between the outer divertor strike point and X-point), for studying the plasma divertor (impurity-seeded) detachment and liquid metal vapor transport. Both probe heads are equipped with a set of ball-pen and Langmuir probes, measuring reliably and extremely fast (10-6 s) local (1 mm resolution) plasma potential, density, electron temperature and heat flux and even ion temperature with 10-5 s resolution. The divertor manipulator (without reciprocation) will place various material test targets at the outer divertor. Unique will be its capability to increase 15× the surface heat flux with respect to the surrounding tungsten tiles just by controllable surface inclination of the test targets. We plan to test liquid metal targets where such inclined surface was found critical to achieve the desired mode with lithium vapor shielding. Even in the conservative expected performance of COMPASS Upgrade, we predict to reach and survive the EU DEMO relevant heat fluxes.
    WorkplaceInstitute of Plasma Physics
    ContactVladimíra Kebza, kebza@ipp.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 052 975
    Year of Publishing2023
    Electronic addresshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/17/02/C02007
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