High heat flux performance of brazed tungsten macro-brush test mock-up for divertors

Plasma facing components (PFCs) of divertor will be exposed to steady state and transient heat loads up to 20MW/m2, during operation of ITER-like plasma fusion device. The critical task in fusion research is to design, fabricate and test of PFCs. To withstand high heat loads, PFCs are designed and fabricated in flat tile, mono-block type geometries using tungsten as plasma facing material and CuCrZr alloy is used as a heat sink. These fabricated mock-ups are tested under thermal cyclic heat loads using intense electron beam in pulsed mode. Tungsten macro-brush type of mock-up has been developed by vacuum furnace brazing route. Mock-up was tested to the absorbed heat flux in the range of 0.5–9MW/m2. Simulation of high heat flux (HHF) test under steady state and cyclic heat loads has been done using ANSYS12 finite element analysis (FEA) software. HHF tests have been successfully performed on the tungsten mock-up.