Plans for the CIT (Compact Ignition Tokamak) instrumentation and control system

Conference · Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6985806

Preckshot, G G

Extensive experience with previous fusion experiments (TFTR, MFTF-B and others) is driving the design of the Instrumentation and Control System (I and C) for the Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT) to be built at Princeton. The new design will reuse much equipment from TFTR and will be subdivided into six major parts: machine control, machine data acquisition, plasma diagnostic instrument control and instrument data acquisition, the database, shot sequencing and safety interlocks. In a major departure from previous fusion experiment control systems, the CIT machine control system will be a commercial process control system. Since the machine control system will be purchased as a completely functional product, we will be able to concentrate development manpower in plasma diagnostic instrument control, data acquisition, data processing and analysis, and database systems. We will discuss the issues driving the design, give a design overview and state the requirements upon any prospective commercial process control system.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6985806
• Report Number(s): UCRL-96655; CONF-871007-100; ON: DE88011323
• Resource Relation: Conference: 12. symposium on fusion engineering, Monterey, CA, USA, 12 Oct 1987
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
COMPACT IGNITION TOKAMAK
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
MANAGEMENT
MATHEMATICS
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK DEVICES
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS
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