Supersonic Gas Injector for Fueling and Diagnostic Applications on the National Spherical Torus Experiment
A prototype pulsed supersonic gas injector (SGI) has been developed for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). Experiments in NSTX will explore the compatibility of the supersonic gas jet fueling with H-mode plasma edge, edge localized mode control, edge magnetohydrodynamic stability, radio frequency heating scenarios, and start-up scenarios with fast plasma density ramp-up. The diagnostic applications include localized impurity gas injections for transport and turbulence experiments and edge helium spectroscopy for edge T{sub e} and n{sub e} profile measurements. Nozzle and gas injector design considerations are presented and four types of supersonic nozzles are discussed. The prototype SGI operates at room temperature. It is comprised of a small graphite Laval nozzle coupled to a modified commercial piezoelectric valve and mounted on a movable vacuum feedthrough. The critical properties of the SGI jet - low divergence, high density, and sharp boundary gradient, achievable only at M > 1, have been demonstrated in a laboratory setup simulating the NSTX edge conditions. The Mach numbers of about 4, the injection rate up to 10{sup 22} particles/s, and the jet divergence half-angle of 6 have been inferred from pulsed pressure measurements.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 15014265
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-CONF-204570; TRN: US0802087
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Volume: 75; Journal Issue: 10; Conference: Presented at: 15th Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, United States, Apr 29 - Apr 22, 2004
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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