Particle and Power Exhaust in EAST

ORAL

Abstract

A total power injection up to 0.3GJ has been achieved in EAST long pulse USN operation with ITER-like water-cooling W-monoblock divertor, which has steady-state power exhaust capability of 10 MWm$^{\mathrm{-2}}$. The peak temperature of W target saturated at t $=$ 12 s to the value T$\approx $500$^{\mathrm{o}}$C and a heat flux $\approx $3MWm$^{\mathrm{-2\thinspace }}$was maintained. Great efforts to reduce heat flux and accommodate particle exhaust simultaneously have been made towards long pulse of 10$^{\mathrm{2}}$s time scale. By exploiting the observation of Pfirsch--Schlüter flow direction in the SOL, the Bt direction with Bx$\nabla $B away from the W divertor (more particles favor outer target in USN) was adopted along with optimizing the strike point location near the pumping slot, to facilitate particle and impurity exhaust with the top cryo-pump. By tailoring the 3D divertor footprint through edge magnetic topology change, the heat load was dispersed widely and thus peak heat flux and W sputtering was well controlled. Active feedback control of total radiative power with neon seeding was achieved within $f_{rad}=$17-35{\%}, exhibiting further potential for heat flux reduction with divertor and edge radiation. Other heat flux handling techniques, including quasi snowflake configuration, will also be presented.

Authors

  • Liang Wang

    Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ASIPP, China

  • Fang Ding

    ASIPP, China

  • Yaowei Yu

    ASIPP, China

  • Kaifu Gan

    ASIPP, China

  • Yunfeng Liang

    ASIPP, China

  • Guosheng Xu

    Institute of plasma physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ASIPP, China

  • Bingjia Xiao

    IPP CAS China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ASIPP, China

  • Y. Sun

    Institute of plasma physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy Of Scieneces, ASIPP, China, ASIPP

  • Guangnan Luo

    ASIPP, China

  • X.Z. Gong

    Institute of plasma physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ASIPP, ASIPP, China

  • J. S. Hu

    ASIPP, ASIPP, China

  • Jiangang Li

    ASIPP, China

  • B.N. Wan

    Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ASIPP, China, ASIPP

  • Rajesh Maingi

    PPPL, PPPL, US, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Houyang Guo

    General Atomics, GA, US, GA, General Atomics - San Diego

  • A.M. Garofalo

    GA, US, GA, General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA, General Atomics