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Thermo-mechanical analysis of an ITER ECH&CD Upper Launcher mirror

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Matteo Vagnoni

The Mirror one Lower (LM1) is part of the in-vessel quasi-optical beam propagation system for the ITER Electro Cyclotron (EC) Upper Launcher (UL), where eight beams are reflected through four mirrors during its passage to the plasma. The mirrors are groupe ...

2018

Functional Performance Analysis and Optimization for the High-Frequency Magnetic Diagnostic System in ITER - I: Overview of the Results

René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Matthieu Toussaint

The measurement performance of the baseline system design for the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic has been analyzed using an algorithm based on the sparse representation of signals. This algorithm, derived from the SparSpec code [S.Bourguignon et a ...

American Nuclear Society2009

ITER ECH&CD Upper Launcher: Design options and Remote Handling issues of the waveguide assembly

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman

The ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive Upper Launcher, developed by the ECHUL-CA Consortium of Euratom Associations (CRPP, CNR, ITER-NL, IPF, IPP, KIT and Politecnico di Milano), is presently in its final design phase. The study presented he ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Progress On The Iter Upper Launcher Millimeter Wave Design And Testing

René Chavan, Frédéric Dolizy, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The main purpose of the ITER ECH upper launcher is to control magnetohydrodynamic activity, in particular neoclassical tearing modes, in the plasma. The mm-wave optical system is optimized to insure that the eight RF beams are all focused to a small beam w ...

2009

Functional Performance Analysis and Optimization for the High-Frequency Magnetic Diagnostic System in ITER - II: Detailed Overview of the Analysis Method and of the Test Calculations

René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Matthieu Toussaint

The measurement performance of the baseline system design for the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic system and attempts at its optimization have been performed using an innovative method based on the sparse representation of signals and the minimizat ...

American Nuclear Society2009

Present design of the Steering Mirror Assembly (SMA) for ITER ECHUL

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Anastasia Xydou

In the ITER Tokamak, four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) are needed to control plasma instabilities at the rational surfaces, most importantly the q = 3/2 and q = 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs). Each ECHUL is equipped with a set ...

2023

Conceptual design of a modular EC heating system for EU-DEMO

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Fabien Pierre Crisinel, Anastasia Xydou, Arnaud Clément, Marc Noël, Cinta Lucia Marraco Borderas, Daniel Birlan

The European DEMO (EU-DEMO) reactor studies within EUROfusion aim to develop a fusion power plant concept. The large tokamak device needs an auxiliary heating power which, at the present stage, is provided by the Electron Cyclotron (EC) heating system with ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Assessment of the ITER High-Frequency Magnetic Diagnostic Set

Thomas Maeder, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Albert Perez, Gilbert Tonetti, Duccio Testa, Francisco Sanchez, Matthieu Toussaint

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic diagnostic system has to provide essential measurements of MHD instabilities with |deltaBmeas/BPOL|~1e-4 (~1G) for frequencies up to 2MHz to resolve toroidal mode numbers (n) in the range |n|=10 to |n|=50. A review of ...

Elsevier2011

High-Power Testing of Guided-Wave Components for the ITER ECH Upper Launcher at the FALCON Test Facility

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Matteo Vagnoni

Each of the four ITER electron cyclotron heating (ECH) upper launchers (ULs) features eight transmission lines (TLs) made of guided-wave components used to inject 170-GHz microwave power into the plasma at a level of up to 1.31 MW per line, at the TL diamo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Design of the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic coils

Thomas Maeder, Nadine Baluc, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Philippe Marmillod, Duccio Testa, Francisco Sanchez, Matthieu Toussaint

This paper is an overview of work carried out on the design of the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic coil (HF sensor). In the first part, the ITER requirements for the HF sensor are presented. In the second part, the ITER reference design of the HF s ...

Elsevier2011

Prototype mitre bends of the ex-vessel waveguide system for the ITER upper launcher: Thermal hydraulic simulations and experiments with off-center mm-wave beams

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Matteo Vagnoni, Anastasia Xydou, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

On ITER, long pulse gyrotrons are required as a power source for electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (CD). The microwaves are guided from the gyrotrons, which are placed far from the Tokamak, into the plasma by transmission lines (TLs) and a ...

Elsevier2021

Status Status of the final design of the EC UPP launcher

René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis

Four EC H&CD (Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive) launchers will be installed into the upper ports #12, #13, #15 and #16 in ITER. Beside plasma heating their main purpose is to counteract plasma instabilities by injecting up to 20 MW of microwave ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2018

Design status of the ITER ECRH upper launcher mm-wave system

René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo, Francisco Sanchez, Frédéric Dolizy, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici

The purpose of the ITER electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) upper launcher (UL), or antennae will be to provide localised current drive by accurately directing mm-wave beams up to 2MW, out of the four allocated upper port plugs, at chosen rational ...

Elsevier2009

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

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

Design optimization of the Upper Steering Mirror Assembly (USMA) for ITER ECHUL in view of disruptive events

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Matteo Vagnoni, Anastasia Xydou

Four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) will be used at ITER to counteract magneto-hydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 20 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. The millimeter waves are guided through a set of fixed mirr ...

Elsevier2021

Design and Numerical Analyses of the M4 Steering Mirrors for the ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launcher

René Chavan, Timothy Goodman, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Phillip Miguel Santos Silva, Matteo Vagnoni

Four electron cyclotron heating upper launchers (ECHULs) will be used at ITER to counteract magnetohydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 24 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. This mm-wave power is injected through eight ex-vessel (EV) ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Progress on the design of various magnetic sensors for ITER: diamagnetic and flux loops, high frequency coils, in-vessel and divertor coils, ex-vessel coils, and external Rogowskis

René Chavan, Jean-Marc Moret, Alexander Karpushov, Duccio Testa

2006

TCV divertor upgrade for alternative magnetic configurations

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Marco Wischmeier, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Davide Uglietti, Umar Sheikh, Nicola Vianello

The Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) is planning a divertor upgrade for the TCV tokamak. The upgrade aims at extending the research of conventional and alternative divertor configurations to operational scenarios and divertor regimes of greater relevance for a fu ...

Elsevier2017

Plasma radiation dynamics with the upgraded Absolute Extreme Ultraviolet tomographical system in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

René Chavan, Basil Duval, Benoît Labit

We introduce an upgraded version of a tomographical system which is built up from Absolute Extreme Ultraviolet-type (AXUV) detectors and has been installed on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). The system is suitable for the investigation of fast ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Assessment of the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic set

Thomas Maeder, René Chavan, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Marc Moret, Albert Perez, Gilbert Tonetti, Duccio Testa, Francisco Sanchez, Matthieu Toussaint

The ITER high-frequency (HF) magnetic diagnostic system has to provide essential measurements of MHD instabilities with vertical bar delta B-MEAS/B-POL vertical bar similar to 10(-4) (similar to 1 G) for frequencies up to 2 MHz to resolve toroidal mode num ...

Elsevier2011