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ASDEX Upgrade
Axially Symmetric Divertor Experiment Upgrade
Device typeTokamak
LocationGarching, Germany
AffiliationMax Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Technical specifications
Major radius1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Minor radius0.5–0.8 m (1 ft 8 in – 2 ft 7 in)
Plasma volume13 m3
Magnetic field3.1 T (31,000 G) (toroidal)
Heating power27 MW
Discharge duration10 s (pulse)
Plasma currentMA
History
Year(s) of operation1991–present
Preceded byASDEX
ASDEX Upgrade model

ASDEX Upgrade (Axially Symmetric Divertor Experiment) is a divertor tokamak at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching that went into operation in 1991. At present, it is Germany's second largest fusion experiment after stellarator Wendelstein 7-X.

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Overview

To make experiments under reactor-like conditions possible, essential plasma properties, particularly the plasma density and pressure and the wall load, have been adapted in ASDEX Upgrade to the conditions that will be present in a future fusion power plant.

ASDEX Upgrade is, compared to other international tokamaks, a midsize tokamak experiment. It began operation in 1991 and it succeeds the ASDEX experiment, which was in operation from 1980 until 1990.

One innovative feature of the ASDEX Upgrade experiment is its all-tungsten first wall; tungsten is a good choice for the first wall of a tokamak because of its very high melting point (over 3000 degrees Celsius) which enables it to stand up to the very high heat fluxes emanating from the hot plasma at the heart of the tokamak; however there are also problems associated with a tungsten first wall, such as tungsten's tendency to ionise at high temperatures, "polluting" the plasma and diluting the deuterium-tritium fuel mix. Furthermore, as a high Z material, radiation from fully ionized tungsten in the plasma is several orders of magnitude higher than that of other proposed first wall components such as carbon fibre composites (CFCs) or beryllium. This result allows for far less tungsten to "contaminate" a proposed break-even plasma. ASDEX Upgrade will examine ways to overcome this problem, in preparation for the construction of ITER's first wall.

The experiment has an overall radius of 5 metres, a gross weight of 800 metric tons, a maximum magnetic field strength of 3.1 tesla, a maximum plasma current of 1.6 megaampere and maximum heating power of up to 27 megawatt. Plasma heating and current drive in the ASDEX Upgrade is derived from several sources, namely 1 MW of ohmic heating, 20 MW of neutral beam injection, 6 MW via ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) at frequencies between 30 and 120 megahertz, and 2 x 2 MW of electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) at 140 gigahertz. It has 16 toroidal field coils and 12 poloidal field coils.

Three large flywheel generators feed the 580 MVA pulsed power supply system for the magnetic confinement and plasma heating.[1]

ASDEX

ASDEX (with a major radius R=1.65m, minor radius a=0.4m, and plasma current Ip≤500kA) started operation in 1980.[2] In 1991, it was dismantled by personnel of the Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP), transported to Chengdu, China, and its main components were used to build the HL-2A.[3][4]

The H-mode was discovered in ASDEX in 1982.

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External links

References

  1. ^ Kasemann, C.-P.; Grois, E.; Stobbe, F.; Rott, M.; Klaster, K. (2015). "Pulsed power supply system of the ASDEX upgrade Tokamak research facility". 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC). pp. 237–242. doi:10.1109/EEEIC.2015.7165545. ISBN 978-1-4799-7993-6. S2CID 30544871.
  2. ^ M. Keilhacker, "The ASDEX divertor tokamak", Nuclear Fusion, vol. 25, no. 9, 1985
  3. ^ Y. Liu et al., "Recent advances in the HL-2A tokamak experiments", Nuclear Fusion, vol. 45, no. 10, 2005
  4. ^ Isabella Milch (2002-12-02). "ASDEX – German fusion device now re-operating in China".
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