Second Harmonic Breakdown in KSTAR

Second Harmonic Breakdown in KSTAR

An 84-GHz electron cyclotron heating (ECH) system is being installed on the KSTAR tokamak. KSTAR adopts ECH-assisted start-up for the flexibility and reliability of the KSTAR operation with the plasma breakdown voltage reduced. The available maximum power of the 84 GHz ECH system is presently 500 kW...

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Hauptverfasser: Bae, Y S, England, A C, Kwon, M, Lee, G S
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
BREAKDOWN
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DOUBLET-3 DEVICE
ECR HEATING
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
FLEXIBILITY
GHZ RANGE
HIGH-BETA PLASMA
IONIZATION
KOREAN ORGANIZATIONS
OPERATION
RF SYSTEMS
START-UP
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
TIME DEPENDENCE
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Zusammenfassung:An 84-GHz electron cyclotron heating (ECH) system is being installed on the KSTAR tokamak. KSTAR adopts ECH-assisted start-up for the flexibility and reliability of the KSTAR operation with the plasma breakdown voltage reduced. The available maximum power of the 84 GHz ECH system is presently 500 kW with maximum duration of 2 s. Currently, the second harmonic ECH-assisted start-up is under consideration because a low toroidal field of BT~1.5 T is desirable for safety and also for the high-beta experiments in the initial operation phase. The studies in this paper are on the effectiveness of the second harmonic breakdown using a 0-D time dependent plasma evolution code and the comparison with the recent DIII-D experimental results on the second harmonic pre-ionization.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/1.2800524