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Impurity-seeded detachment in conventional and optimized TCV divertor geometry

Nuclear fusion provides a potentially unlimited and clean energy source which motivates the development of fusion power plants. The tokamak is one of the most promising concepts for a future reactor, confining the fusion plasmas in a torus using strong mag ...

EPFL2025

Neutral pressure measurement in TCV tokamak using ASDEX-type pressure gauges

Holger Reimerdes, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Guang-Yu Sun, Elena Tonello, Marc Noël, Mateusz Gospodarczyk, Hammam Elaian

Probing the neutral gas distribution at the edge of magnetic confinement fusion devices is critical for plasma exhaust studies. In the TCV tokamak, a set of ASDEX-type hot ionization pressure gauges (APGs) has been installed for fast, in situ measurements ...

2025

X-point radiation: From discovery to potential application in a future reactor

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Olivier Claude Martin Février

Power exhaust is a crucial issue for future fusion reactors. Divertor detachment and the required power dissipation fractions of about 95% are foreseen to be achieved by impurity seeding. In a tokamak, at high seeding levels the radiation often concentrate ...

Elsevier2025

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR. Part B: safe termination of DEMO plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Emiliano Fable, Anna Teplukhina, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré

An optimized plasma current ramp-down strategy is critical for safe and fast termination of plasma discharges in a tokamak demonstration fusion reactor (DEMO), both in planned and emergency scenarios, avoiding plasma disruptions and excessive heat loads to ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Validating reduced models for detachment onset and reattachment times on MAST-U

Holger Reimerdes

Two reduced models for predicting detachment onset and divertor reattachment times are validated on MAST Upgrade (MAST-U). These models are essential for future tokamak reactor design, providing rapid calculations based primarily on engineering parameters. ...

Elsevier2024

Comparison of detachment in Ohmic plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Massimo Carpita, Elena Tonello, Martim Zurita, Emanuel Paul Huett

In recent years, negative triangularity (NT) has emerged as a potential high-confinement L-mode reactor solution. In this work, detachment is investigated using core density ramps in lower single null Ohmic L-mode plasmas across a wide range of upper, lowe ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Alessandro Pau, Justin Richard Ball, Filippo Bagnato, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Carbon impurity transport is studied in the TCV tokamak using a charge exchange recombination diagnostic. TCVs flexible shaping capabilities were exploited to extend previous impurity transport studies to negative triangularity (delta < 0). A practical way ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Optimizing the ITER NBI ion source by dedicated RF driver test stand

Riccardo Agnello

The experimental fusion reactor ITER will feature two (or three) heating neutral beam injectors (NBI) capable of delivering 33(or 50) MW of power into the plasma. A NBI consists of a plasma source for production of negative ions (extracted negative ion cur ...

Institute of Physics2024

Experimental validation of momentum transport theory in the core of H-mode plasmas in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

Basil Duval

This study employs the established momentum transport analysis at ASDEX Upgrade [Zimmermann et al., Nucl. Fusion 63, 124003 (2023)] to investigate the parametric variations of the momentum transport coefficients in the core of H-mode plasmas. These experim ...

Aip Publishing2024

Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

Davide Uglietti, Kamil Sedlák

For the EU DEMO conductor testing, a temperature sensor based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fiber is studied at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center. The SULTAN test facility has been upgraded to use fiber optic sensor for temperature monitoring and quench ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Numerical study of fully baffled Super-X L-mode discharges on TCV

Davide Galassi, Christian Gabriel Theiler

We present a numerical study of three fully baffled L-mode TCV discharges with three different values of the outer strike-point major radius/total flux expansion, showing that the beneficial effect of large strike point radius is partially screened in thes ...

Elsevier2023

AC loss and electrical resistance of the RW3 diffusion-bonded joint

Vincenzo D'Auria

For the European DEMO fusion reactor, several options of the Toroidal Field (TF) coil design were proposed. The winding of the TF coil option 1 is based on React&Wind (RW), Nb3Sn, graded conductors in order to optimize the amount of superconductor accordin ...

2023

Investigating the impact of the molecular charge-exchange rate on detached SOLPS-ITER simulations

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Plasma-molecular interactions generate molecular ions which react with the plasma and contribute to detachment through molecular activated recombination (MAR), reducing the ion target flux, and molecular activated dissociation (MAD), both of which create e ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Jan Horacek, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Stephan Brunner, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Xavier Llobet, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mengdi Kong, Matteo Vallar, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Guang-Yu Sun, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Filippo Bagnato, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Mirko Wensing, Claudia Colandrea, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Francesco Carpanese, Nicola Offeddu, Aylwin Iantchenko, Maurizio Giacomin, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Dahye Choi, Federico Pesamosca, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Stipani, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Stefano Marchioni, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Renat Karimov, Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi

The tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to address critical issues in preparation for ITER and a fusion power plant. For the 2019-20 campaign its c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Numerical investigation of optimal divertor gas baffle closure on TCV

Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mirko Wensing, Davide Galassi

A first set of divertor gas baffles has recently been installed in the TCV tokamak. In order to explore the physics determining the benefits and limitations of divertor baffling and to guide the design of a possible second generation of baffles, the effect ...

2020

TCV heating and divertor upgrades

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alexander Karpushov, Matthieu Toussaint, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dario Vaccaro

The operational range and the reactor relevance of the TCV experiments are being enhanced by two sets of major upgrades. The first includes the installation of neutral beam injection (NBI) and new electron cyclotron (EC) auxiliary heating sources, to reach ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

First demonstration of real-time kinetic equilibrium reconstruction on TCV by coupling LIUQE and RAPTOR

Olivier Sauter, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Francesco Carpanese

Kinetic equilibrium reconstruction (KER) in tokamaks is the solution of the free-boundary MHD equilibrium that best fits the external magnetic measurements and the internal plasma profiles as imposed from modeling and/or available internal measurements. In ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Effect of the tangential NBI current drive on the stability of pressure and energetic particle driven MHD modes in LHD plasma

Wilfred Anthony Cooper

The aim of the present study is to analyze the stability of the pressure gradient driven modes (PM) and Alfven eigenmodes (AE) in the large helical device (LHD) plasma if the rotational transform profile is modified by the current drive of the tangential n ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Thermal, electromagnetic and structural analysis of gas baffles for the TCV divertor upgrade

Dario Vaccaro, Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint

As part of an ongoing divertor upgrade of the TCV tokamak it is planned to add gas baffles to form a divertor chamber of variable closure. The baffles promise to increase the compression of neutral particles in the divertor and, thereby, extend the researc ...

Elsevier2019

Model-based real-time plasma electron density profile estimation and control on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti

Real-time plasma electron density profile estimation and control are essential in the operation of future tokamaks. In particular, the robustness against diagnostics failure and disturbances is important for long pulse operation. ...

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