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Distributed digital real-time control system for TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Damien Fasel, Philippe Marmillod, James Paley, Hoang Bao Le

A new digital feedback control system (named the SCD "Systeme de Controle Distribue") has been developed, integrated and used successfully to control TCV (Tokamak a Configuration Variable) plasmas. The system is designed to be modular, distributed, and sca ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

From W7-X Towards ITER and Beyond: 2019 Status on EU Fusion Gyrotron Developments

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, François Jean Gaston Legrand

In Europe, the research and development with main focus on achieving robust industrial designs of series gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive of today's nuclear fusion experiments and towards a future DEMOnstration fusion power plant ...

IEEE2019

Upgrade of a 30 kV/10 mA anode power supply for triode type gyrotron

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Philippe Marmillod, Albert Perez, Blaise Marlétaz

The RF power of a gyrotron with a triode type magnetron-injection-gun (MIG) can be directly controlled via the voltage applied between its anode and its cathode. Hence, the performance of this type of gyrotron relies directly on the possibilities offered b ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Safety factor profile requirements for electron ITB formation in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Yann Camenen, Antoine Pochelon, Jean-Marc Moret, Sun Hee Kim, Minh Quang Tran, Kurt Appert, Roland Behn, Jan Horacek, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Laurie Porte, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Markus Siegrist, Alexander Karpushov, Alberto Bottino, Damien Fasel, Emiliano Fable, Petri Nikkola, Philippe Marmillod, Costanza Zucca, Gilbert Tonetti, Andrei Martynov, Andrea Scarabosio, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Alessandro Bortolon, Albert Perez, Gilles Arnoux, Yanis Andrebe, Blaise Marlétaz, Alessandro Marinoni, Ugo Siravo, Pierre Lavanchy, Igor Klimanov, Barbora Bruant Gulejová, Pierre-François Isoz, Alexey Zabolotskiy, Jonathan Rossel, Emmanuel Droz, Jean-Claude Magnin, Ilya Pavlov, Karin Schombourg, Pierre Etienne

On the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV), electron internal transport barriers (eITBs) can be formed during a gradual evolution from a centrally peaked to a hollow current profile while all external actuators are held constant. The formation occurs ra ...

2005

MAGY: an innovative high voltage - low current power supply for gyrotron

Damien Fasel, Albert Perez, Ugo Siravo, Mauro Carpita

From the electrical point of view, the body and the anode of high power gyrotrons behave as capacitive loads. A highly dynamic power supply is, therefore, hard to achieve. The MAGY concept (Modulator for the Anode of a triode type GYrotron) embodies an inn ...

elsevier2011

EMC and earthing concept of the ITER EC-system

Damien Fasel, Francisco Sanchez, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray

Gyrotrons and High Voltage Power Supplies (HVPS) used on electron cyclotron (EC) systems are the source of large electromagnetic interference (EMI). Arcing events inside gyrotrons is the most frequently cited issue, but fast shutdown of a HVPS can produce ...

2023

Control upgrade for the TCV coils power supplies

Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Nicolas Cherix

The Tokamak a` Configuration Variable (TCV) coil converters are fed, during the plasma pulse, by a flywheel generator (FG) providing the AC voltages few seconds before the plasma pulse. The synchronization with the 120 Hz frequency delivered by the FG, var ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Operations with Spherical Calorimetric Loads in Different Configurations at Gyrotron Test Stands at EPFL and QST

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister

A research activity in the Institute for Plasma Science and Technology of National Research Council (ISTP-CNR, Italy, former IFP-CNR) and in L.T. Calcoli (LTC, Italy) is aimed at the design and construction of calorimetric loads for absorption and measurem ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Supply equipment to the new NBH system for the TCV tokamak

Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Albert Perez

The TCV tokamak is equipped with a high power real time-controllable Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH) system, made of 9 gyrotrons capable of 500 kW RF power. One of the major scientific challenge, the TCV upgrades aimed to, will be the access to a wider ra ...

Elsevier Science2015

Experimental characterization of the TCV dual-frequency gyrotron and validation of numerical codes including the effect of After Cavity Interaction

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Jérémy Genoud, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Falk Hans Braunmüller, François Jean Gaston Legrand

A dual-frequency gyrotron has been developed within the context of the recent Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) upgrade. The gyrotron is designed to generate a 1 MW, 2 seconds RF wave at 84 or 126 GHz. Before integrating the gyrotrons in the TCV tokam ...

2024

Maintenance and optimization of the TCV power supply

Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray

The TCV tokamak is powered by a flywheel generator to supply the magnetic coils and the auxiliary heating systems. The generator has just undergone its fourth major overhaul to make it ready for the next ten years, after more than thirty years of almost tr ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Availability of lithium in the context of future D-T fusion reactors

Minh Quang Tran, Damien Fasel

A future fusion reactor will use deuterium and tritium as fuel. The former is found in abundance in seawater, while the latter is not available naturally due to its short lifetime. Present developments in the context of fusion propose generating tritium in ...

2005

Homogenous power distribution along gyrotron collector walls

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Pierre-François Isoz, François Jean Gaston Legrand, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister

EC RF power sources will play a major role in the future operation of large scale tokamaks (ITER, DEMO). A 1MW/170GHz gyrotron is the standard RF power unit considered for ITER. Even though the efficiency of such devices has been significantly increased th ...

2023

Manufacturing and Test of the 1 MW Long-Pulse 84/126 GHz Dual-Frequency Gyrotron for TCV

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, François Jean Gaston Legrand

An 1 MW long-pulse (2s), 84/126 GHz dual frequency gyrotron has been produced by THALES MSI, France responding to the needs for upgrading the ECH system of the TCV tokamak The initial tests of the prototype carried out at EPFL, Switzerland, have verified a ...

IEEE2019

First experimental results from the EU 2 MW coaxial cavity ITER gyrotron prototype

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Laurie Porte, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Emmanuel Droz

The EU is working towards providing 2 MW, coaxial-cavity, CW, 170 GHz gyrotrons for ITER. Their design is based on results from an experimental pre-prototype tube in operation at FZK for several years, having a pulse length of several milliseconds. The fir ...

World Scientific Publ Co Inc, 687 Hartwell St, Teaneck, Nj 07666 Usa2009

First experimental results from the European Union 2 MW coaxial cavity ITER gyrotron prototype

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Laurie Porte, Damien Fasel, Philippe Marmillod, Ioannis Pagonakis, Albert Perez, Blaise Marlétaz, Ugo Siravo, Pierre Lavanchy, Emmanuel Droz

The European Union is working toward providing 2-MW, coaxial-cavity, continuous-wave (cw) 170-GHz gyrotrons for ITER. Their design is based on results,from an experimental preprototype tube having a pulse length of several milliseconds, in operation at For ...

American Nuclear Society2009

Upgrade of the TCV tokamak, first phase: Neutral beam heating system

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Matthieu Toussaint

Experiments on TCV are designed to complement the work at large integrated tokamak facilities (such as JET) to provide a stepwise approach to extrapolation to ITER and DEMO in areas where medium-size tokamaks can often exploit their experimental capabiliti ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Tests and developments of a long-pulse high-power 170 GHz absorbing matched load

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Francesca Maria Poli, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis

The future EC systems will consist of several gyrotron sources providing MW-level millimeter wave power at a frequency around or above 170 GHz. The development of matched loads is necessary to test the new sources, the components for the transmission lines ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Design and First Tests of the Trapped Electrons Experiment T-REX

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Jérémy Genoud, Francesco Romano, Steve Couturier, Marc Noël, Severino Antonioni

Gyrotrons are essential for electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) in fusion reactors, making efficient operation crucial for advancing fusion energy. Past experiments revealed instability issues due to trapped electrons in the magnetron injection gun ...

AIP Publishing2024

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Christian Moura, Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ioannis Pagonakis, Blaise Marlétaz, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Jonathan Sylvain Masur

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020