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Redeposition of the sputtered surface in limiters

Conference ·
OSTI ID:6480662
Erosion of the surface coating of a pumped limiter by sputtering may be a critical life-limiting issue for future tokamak reactors. Redeposition of the sputtered material, however, may extend the coating life significantly. This subject has now been studied through the use of a code which models the redeposition of sputtered material which gets ionized in the scrape-off layer. The code also treats the transfer of wall-sputtered material to the limiter. The code uses models of the plasma density and temperature in the scrape-off zone, sheath potential, sputtering coefficients, spatial distribution of the sputtered atoms, and electron impact ionization coefficient for the sputtered atoms. The studies were made for high flux and low flux edge conditions corresponding to FED and STARFIRE limiters and assumed plasma-edge parameters. The results indicate that substantial redeposition from the scrape-off layer ionized neutrals occurs in the cases considered.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (USA); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
6480662
Report Number(s):
CONF-811040-190; ON: DE83007756
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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