Recent progress of the ECRH system and initial experimental results on the J-TEXT tokamak

Donghui XIA; Xixuan CHEN; Dengfeng XU; Jiangang FANG; Junli ZHANG; Nengchao WANG; Zhoujun YANG; Zhongyong CHEN; Yonghua DING; Wei ZHENG; Shaoxiang MA; Zhijiang WANG; Yuan PAN

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Plasma Science and Technology > 2022 > 24(12): 124010. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aca4b5

Donghui XIA, Xixuan CHEN, Dengfeng XU, Jiangang FANG, Junli ZHANG, Nengchao WANG, Zhoujun YANG, Zhongyong CHEN, Yonghua DING, Wei ZHENG, Shaoxiang MA, Zhijiang WANG, Yuan PAN. Recent progress of the ECRH system and initial experimental results on the J-TEXT tokamak[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2022, 24(12): 124010. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/aca4b5

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Recent progress of the ECRH system and initial experimental results on the J-TEXT tokamak

International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China

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Donghui XIA, E-mail: xiadh@hust.edu.cn
Received Date: August 23, 2022
Revised Date: November 18, 2022
Accepted Date: November 20, 2022
Available Online: December 05, 2023
Published Date: December 18, 2022

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In order to broaden the range of the plasma parameters and provide experimental conditions for physical research into high-performance plasma, the development of the electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) system for the J-TEXT tokamak was initiated in 2017. For the first stage, the ECRH system operated successfully with one 105 GHz/500 kW/1 s gyrotron in 2019. More than 400 kW electron cyclotron (EC) wave power has been injected into the plasma successfully, raising the core electron temperature to 1.5 keV. In 2022, another 105 GHz/500 kW/1 s gyrotron completed commissioning tests which signifies that the ECRH system could generate an EC wave power of 1 MW in total. Under the support of the ECRH system, various physical experiments have been carried out on J-TEXT. The electron thermal transport in ECRH plasmas has been investigated. When ECRH is turned on, the electron thermal diffusivity significantly increases. The runaway current is elevated when a disruption occurs during ECRH heating. When the injected EC wave power is 400 kW, the conversion efficiency of runaway current increases from 35% to 75%. Fast electron behavior is observed in electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) plasma by the fast electron bremsstrahlung diagnostic (FEB). The increase in the FEB intensity implies that ECCD could generate fast electrons. A successful startup with a 200 kW ECW is achieved. With the upgrade of the ECRH system, the J-TEXT operational range could be expanded and further relevant research could be conducted.
- ECRH,
- J-TEXT tokamak,
- electron thermal transport,
- runaway electron current,
- assisted start-up

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2017YFE0300200 and 2017YFE0300204), the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province (No. 2021BAA167) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51821005).

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