Space charged based Residual Ion beam recovery for the Neutral beam injection

Energy recovery of residual ions may be needed to increase the energy efficiency of Neutral Beam (NB) injectors for fusion plants as DEMO while a deflection-based system has been proposed until now to dump residual ions. As an alternative, a compact beam energy recovery system, based on space charge...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2022-04, Vol.2244 (1), p.12056
Main Authors: Variale, V., Cavenago, M., Valentino, V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beam injection
Deceleration
Energy
Energy recovery
Energy recovery systems
Ion beams
Ion sources
Neutral beams
Nuclear power plants
Physics
Space charge
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Summary:Energy recovery of residual ions may be needed to increase the energy efficiency of Neutral Beam (NB) injectors for fusion plants as DEMO while a deflection-based system has been proposed until now to dump residual ions. As an alternative, a compact beam energy recovery system, based on space charge effects due to the residual ion deceleration into 2 Farady Cups (FC) with holes for D 0 passage, can replace the Electrostatic Residual Ion Dump (ERID) designed for ITER to stop the residual D - and D + before the NB injection in the tokamak plasma. All parameter tunings and preliminary simulations are here described, also providing the suppression of back streaming to the ion source. Ion energy spread and rectangular geometry are considered. Collection of ions at low energy (a few percent of the full neutral beam energy Ek i ) instead of Ek i as in ERID gives advantages that will be mentioned.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/2244/1/012056