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High voltage power supplies for ITER RF heating and current drive systems
The RF heating and current drive (H&CD) systems to be installed for the ITER fusion machine are the electron cyclotron (EC), ion cyclotron (IC) and, although not in the first phase of the project, lower hybrid (LH). These systems require high voltage, high current power supplies (HVPS) in CW ope...
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Published in: | Fusion engineering and design 2011-10, Vol.86 (6), p.884-887 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | The RF heating and current drive (H&CD) systems to be installed for the ITER fusion machine are the electron cyclotron (EC), ion cyclotron (IC) and, although not in the first phase of the project, lower hybrid (LH). These systems require high voltage, high current power supplies (HVPS) in CW operation.
These HVPS should deliver around 50
MW electrical power to each of the RF H&CD systems with stringent requirements in terms of accuracy, voltage ripple, response time, turn off time and fault energy. The PSM (Pulse Step Modulation) technology has demonstrated over the past 20 years its ability to fulfill these requirements in many industrial facilities and other fusion reactors and has therefore been chosen as reference design for the IC and EC HVPS systems.
This paper describes the technical specifications, including interfaces, the resulting constraints on the design, the conceptual design proposed for ITER EC and IC HVPS systems and the current status. |
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ISSN: | 0920-3796 1873-7196 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2011.02.019 |