TY - JOUR
T1 - Commissioning of the first WEST load-resilient long pulse ICRF launcher in the TITAN testbed and on WEST plasmas
AU - Bernard, Jean Michel
AU - Helou, Walid
AU - Mollard, Patrick
AU - Delaplanche, Jean Marc
AU - Delmas, Etienne
AU - Durodié, Frédéric
AU - Ferlay, Fabien
AU - Hatchressian, Jean Claude
AU - Hillairet, Julien
AU - Lombard, Gilles
AU - Samaille, Franck
AU - Song, Yuntao
AU - Verger, Jean Marc
AU - Yang, Qingxi
AU - Wang, Yong Shen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Before the installation of the first ICRF launcher in WEST, dedicated RF, cold and hot leak tests have been performed in the TITAN test bed [1,2] (Bernard et al., 2011a,b). All the water circuits have been controlled in order to avoid any in-vessel leak. The impedance matching has been checked at low level (mW range) and the high RF voltage standoff has been validated at the nominal value of 27 kV peak. During the WEST C3a campaign, the commissioning of the first antenna has been successfully performed. About 0.6 MW of power has been coupled to the plasma, and the launcher's load-resilience has been proved.
AB - Before the installation of the first ICRF launcher in WEST, dedicated RF, cold and hot leak tests have been performed in the TITAN test bed [1,2] (Bernard et al., 2011a,b). All the water circuits have been controlled in order to avoid any in-vessel leak. The impedance matching has been checked at low level (mW range) and the high RF voltage standoff has been validated at the nominal value of 27 kV peak. During the WEST C3a campaign, the commissioning of the first antenna has been successfully performed. About 0.6 MW of power has been coupled to the plasma, and the launcher's load-resilience has been proved.
KW - Commissioning
KW - ICRF antenna
KW - Leak test
KW - Load-resilience
KW - WEST
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.03.033
DO - 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.03.033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062670719
SN - 0920-3796
VL - 146
SP - 1778
EP - 1781
JO - Fusion Engineering and Design
JF - Fusion Engineering and Design
ER -