The effect of lithium surface coatings on plasma performance in the National Spherical Torus Experiment
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
- University of California, San Diego
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
National Spherical Torus Experiment [which M. Ono , Nucl. Fusion 40, 557 (2000)] high-power divertor plasma experiments have shown, for the first time, that benefits from lithium coatings applied to plasma facing components found previously in limited plasmas can occur also in high-power diverted configurations. Lithium coatings were applied with pellets injected into helium discharges, and also with an oven that directed a collimated stream of lithium vapor toward the graphite tiles of the lower center stack and divertor. Lithium oven depositions from a few milligrams to 1 g have been applied between discharges. Benefits from the lithium coatings were sometimes, but not always, seen. These benefits sometimes included decreases in plasma density, inductive flux consumption, and edge-localized mode occurrence, and increases in electron temperature, ion temperature, energy confinement, and periods of edge and magnetohydrodynamic quiescence. In addition, reductions in lower divertor D, C, and O luminosity were measured.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1015046
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American-Physical-Society, Orlando, FL, USA, 20071112, 20071116
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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