Micro-particle injection experiments in ADITYA-U tokamak using an inductively driven pellet injector
NUCLEAR FUSION(2024)
摘要
A first-of-its-kind, inductively driven micro-particle (Pellet) accelerator and injector have been developed and operated successfully in ADITYA-U circular plasma operations, which may ably address the critical need for a suitable disruption control mechanism in ITER and future tokamak. The device combines the principles of electromagnetic induction, pulse power technology, impact, and fracture dynamics. It is designed to operate in a variety of environments, including atmospheric pressure and ultra-high vacuum. It can also accommodate a wide range of pellet quantities, sizes, and materials and can adjust the pellets' velocities over a coarse and fine range. The device has a modular design such that the maximum velocity can be increased by increasing the number of modules. A cluster of lithium titanate/carbonate (Li2TiO3/Li2CO3) impurity particles with variable particle sizes, weighing similar to 50-200 mg are injected with velocities of the order of similar to 200 m s-1 during the current plateau in ADITYA-U tokamak. This leads to a complete collapse of the plasma current within similar to 5-6 ms of triggering the injector. The current quench time is dependent on the amount of impurity injected as well as the compound, with Li2TiO3 injection causing a faster current quench than Li2CO3 injection, as more power is radiated in the case of Li2TiO3. The increase in radiation due to the macro-particle injection starts in the plasma core, while the soft x-ray emission indicates that the entire plasma core collapses at once.
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pellet injector,fusion,disruption mitigation,electromagnetic launcher,ITER
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