Design and engineering of the Alcator C-MOD lower hybrid current drive system

G. D. Loesser; J. Rushinski; S. Bernabei; J. C. Hosea; J. R. Wilson; B. Beck; R. Parker

Design and engineering of the Alcator C-MOD lower hybrid current drive system

G. D. Loesser
, J. Rushinski
, S. Bernabei
, J. C. Hosea
, J. R. Wilson
, B. Beck
, R. Parker

PPPL Engineering

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Abstract

The PSFC group of MIT and PPPL are jointly developing a Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) system for installation on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, with the primary goal of driving plasma current. Twelve Klystrons will feed a coupler with an input power of 3 MW at 4.6 GHz and a pulse length of 5 seconds. The coupler is composed of 4 arrays, each with 24 wave-guides (96 total) which are stacked poloidally and are symmetric about both the vertical and horizontal planes. The four-stacked arrays are installed through a single equatorial port and can be axially adjusted to provide optimum plasma coupling. Material selections and spatial limitations required innovative design solutions that will be described.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	20-22
Number of pages	3
State	Published - 2002
Event	19th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (19th SOFE) - Atlantic City, NJ, United States Duration: Jan 22 2002 → Jan 25 2002

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Other	19th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (19th SOFE)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlantic City, NJ
Period	1/22/02 → 1/25/02

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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