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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

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

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

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

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

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

High-efficiency, long-pulse operation of MW-level dual-frequency gyrotron, 84/126GHz, for the TCV Tokamak

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Blaise Marlétaz, Jérémy Genoud, Ugo Siravo, Pierre Lavanchy, Jérémie Dubray, Pierre-François Isoz, Matthieu Toussaint, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Jonathan Sylvain Masur

The first unit of the dual-frequency gyrotron, 84-126GHz/lMW/2s, for the upgrade of the TCV ECH system has been delivered and is presently being commissioned. During a first phase, long-pulse operation (TRF>0.5s) has been achieved and powers in excess of 0 ...

IEEE2019

Enhanced operation of the Eu Ec test facility

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Albert Perez, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray

A Test Facility (TF) has been designed and installed at SPC to allow for the commissioning of the EU gyrotrons developed in view of their integration to the ITER EC system. The first phase of operation of this TF was dedicated to the development of the EU ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Present status of heating neutral beam injection system at TCV

David Velasco De La Fuente, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Patrick Blanchard, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Yanis Andrebe, Frédéric Dolizy, Ugo Siravo, Rémy Jacquier, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Marc Noël, Aleksandr Listopad

The paper describes the operation and upgrade of the Heating Neutral Beam Injection (HNBI) system as well as the related infrastructure at the Tokamak Configuration Variable (TCV) during the last years. In 2023, the installation of new TCV neutron shieldin ...

2025

Upgrade of the neutral beam heating system on the TCV tokamak - second high energy neutral beam

Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Umar Sheikh, Blaise Marlétaz, Frédéric Dolizy, Ugo Siravo, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Pierre Lavanchy, Matteo Vallar, Rémy Jacquier, Filippo Bagnato, Jérémie Dubray, Claudia Colandrea, Matthieu Toussaint, Lorenzo Martinelli, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

The TCV tokamak continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to provide a stepladder approach for extrapolations of experimental results from different ma-chines to ITER and DEMO. TCV's configura ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Applicability of the ITER-like EC HVPS design to the DEMO ECS

Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray

Elsevier Science Sa2024

5MW CW supply system for the ITER gyrotrons Test Facility

Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Albert Perez

ECH (Electron Cyclotron Heating) for ITER will deliver into the plasma 20 MW of RF power. The procurement of the RF sources will be shared equally between the three following partners: Europe, Japan and Russia. Moreover, Europe decided to develop a RF sour ...

Elsevier2011

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

Commissioning of the heating neutral beam injector on the TCV tokamak

Alexander Karpushov, Philippe Marmillod, Albert Perez, Damien Fasel, Blaise Marlétaz, Yanis Andrebe, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray

2017

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

2023