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Experimental Simulation of Beryllium Armour Damage Under ITER-like Intense Transient Plasma Loads

Abstract

Full text: Beryllium will be used as a plasma facing material in the next generation of tokamaks such as ITER. During plasma operation in ITER, the plasma facing materials and components will be suffered by different kinds of loading which may affect their surface or their joint to the heat sink. In addition to quasi-stationary loadings which are caused by the normal cycling operation, the plasma facing components and materials may also be exposed to the intense short transient loads like disruptions, ELMs. All these events may lead to beryllium surface melting, cracking, evaporation and erosion. It is expected that the erosion of beryllium under transient plasma loads such as ELMs and disruptions will mainly determine a lifetime of ITER first wall. To obtain the experimental data for the evaluation of the beryllium armor lifetime and dust production under ITER-relevant transient loads, the advanced plasma gun QSPA-Be facility has been constructed in Bochvar Institute. This paper presents recent results of the experiments with Russian beryllium of TGP-56FW ITER grade. The mock-ups of a special design armored with two beryllium targets (80 x 80 x 10 mm{sup 3}) were tested by hydrogen plasma streams (5 cm in diameter) with pulse duration  More>>
Authors:
Kupriyanov, I.; Basaleev, E.; Nikolaev, G.; Kurbatova, L., E-mail: igkupr@gmail.com; [1]  Podkovyrov, V.; Zhitlukhin, A.; [2]  Khimchenko, L. L. [3] 
  1. A.A. Bochvar High Technology Research Institute of Inorganic Material, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  2. SRC RF TRINITI, Troitsk (Russian Federation)
  3. Project Centre of ITER, Moscow (Russian Federation)
Publication Date:
Sep 15, 2012
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
IAEA-CN-197; ITR/P5-09
Resource Relation:
Conference: FEC 2012: 24. IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, San Diego, CA (United States), 8-13 Oct 2012; Related Information: In: 24. IAEA Fusion Energy Conference. Programme and Book of Abstracts| 789 p.
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; BERYLLIUM; CRACKING; DAMAGE; EDGE LOCALIZED MODES; EROSION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST WALL; HEAT SINKS; HYDROGEN; ITER TOKAMAK; LOADING; MASS TRANSFER; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PLASMA GUNS; SIMULATION; STREAMS; SURFACES; TRANSIENTS
OSTI ID:
22213062
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: XA14S0144034025
Availability:
Available from INIS in electronic form. Also available on-line: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/PDFplus/2012/cn197/cn197_Programme.pdf
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 606
Announcement Date:
Apr 07, 2014

Citation Formats

Kupriyanov, I., Basaleev, E., Nikolaev, G., Kurbatova, L., E-mail: igkupr@gmail.com, Podkovyrov, V., Zhitlukhin, A., and Khimchenko, L. L. Experimental Simulation of Beryllium Armour Damage Under ITER-like Intense Transient Plasma Loads. IAEA: N. p., 2012. Web.
Kupriyanov, I., Basaleev, E., Nikolaev, G., Kurbatova, L., E-mail: igkupr@gmail.com, Podkovyrov, V., Zhitlukhin, A., & Khimchenko, L. L. Experimental Simulation of Beryllium Armour Damage Under ITER-like Intense Transient Plasma Loads. IAEA.
Kupriyanov, I., Basaleev, E., Nikolaev, G., Kurbatova, L., E-mail: igkupr@gmail.com, Podkovyrov, V., Zhitlukhin, A., and Khimchenko, L. L. 2012. "Experimental Simulation of Beryllium Armour Damage Under ITER-like Intense Transient Plasma Loads." IAEA.
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title = {Experimental Simulation of Beryllium Armour Damage Under ITER-like Intense Transient Plasma Loads}
author = {Kupriyanov, I., Basaleev, E., Nikolaev, G., Kurbatova, L., E-mail: igkupr@gmail.com, Podkovyrov, V., Zhitlukhin, A., and Khimchenko, L. L.}
abstractNote = {Full text: Beryllium will be used as a plasma facing material in the next generation of tokamaks such as ITER. During plasma operation in ITER, the plasma facing materials and components will be suffered by different kinds of loading which may affect their surface or their joint to the heat sink. In addition to quasi-stationary loadings which are caused by the normal cycling operation, the plasma facing components and materials may also be exposed to the intense short transient loads like disruptions, ELMs. All these events may lead to beryllium surface melting, cracking, evaporation and erosion. It is expected that the erosion of beryllium under transient plasma loads such as ELMs and disruptions will mainly determine a lifetime of ITER first wall. To obtain the experimental data for the evaluation of the beryllium armor lifetime and dust production under ITER-relevant transient loads, the advanced plasma gun QSPA-Be facility has been constructed in Bochvar Institute. This paper presents recent results of the experiments with Russian beryllium of TGP-56FW ITER grade. The mock-ups of a special design armored with two beryllium targets (80 x 80 x 10 mm{sup 3}) were tested by hydrogen plasma streams (5 cm in diameter) with pulse duration of 0.5 ms and heat load of 0.5 and 1.0 MJ/m{sup 2}. Experiments were performed at RT temperature. The evolution of surface microstructure and profile, cracks morphology and mass loss/gain under erosion process on the beryllium surface exposed to up to 250 shots will be presented and discussed. (author)}
place = {IAEA}
year = {2012}
month = {Sep}
}