System and method of operating toroidal magnetic confinement devices
Abstract
For toroidal magnetic confinement devices the second region of stability against ballooning modes can be accessed with controlled operation. Under certain modes of operation, the first and second stability regions may be joined together. Accessing the second region of stability is accomplished by forming a bean-shaped plasma and increasing the indentation until a critical value of indentation is reached. A pusher coil, located at the inner-major-radius side of the device, is engaged to form a bean-shaped poloidal cross-section in the plasma.
- Inventors:
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- Princeton Jct., NJ
- Princeton, NJ
- (late of Yowie Bay, AU)
- Lawrenceville, NJ
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 866199
- Patent Number(s):
- 4654184
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS G21B - FUSION REACTORS
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- method; operating; toroidal; magnetic; confinement; devices; region; stability; ballooning; modes; accessed; controlled; operation; regions; joined; accessing; accomplished; forming; bean-shaped; plasma; increasing; indentation; critical; value; reached; pusher; coil; located; inner-major-radius; device; engaged; form; poloidal; cross-section; magnetic confinement; toroidal magnet; toroidal magnetic; confinement device; critical value; shaped plasma; confinement devices; /376/
Citation Formats
Chance, Morrell S, Jardin, Stephen C, Stix, Thomas H, Grimm, deceased, Ray C., Manickam, Janardhan, and Okabayashi, Michio. System and method of operating toroidal magnetic confinement devices. United States: N. p., 1987.
Web.
Chance, Morrell S, Jardin, Stephen C, Stix, Thomas H, Grimm, deceased, Ray C., Manickam, Janardhan, & Okabayashi, Michio. System and method of operating toroidal magnetic confinement devices. United States.
Chance, Morrell S, Jardin, Stephen C, Stix, Thomas H, Grimm, deceased, Ray C., Manickam, Janardhan, and Okabayashi, Michio. Thu .
"System and method of operating toroidal magnetic confinement devices". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/866199.
@article{osti_866199,
title = {System and method of operating toroidal magnetic confinement devices},
author = {Chance, Morrell S and Jardin, Stephen C and Stix, Thomas H and Grimm, deceased, Ray C. and Manickam, Janardhan and Okabayashi, Michio},
abstractNote = {For toroidal magnetic confinement devices the second region of stability against ballooning modes can be accessed with controlled operation. Under certain modes of operation, the first and second stability regions may be joined together. Accessing the second region of stability is accomplished by forming a bean-shaped plasma and increasing the indentation until a critical value of indentation is reached. A pusher coil, located at the inner-major-radius side of the device, is engaged to form a bean-shaped poloidal cross-section in the plasma.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987}
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