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1Th Loarer Gas balance and fuel retention – EU TF on PWI – 29 October 2007 Madrid

Th Loarerwith contributions from

D Borodin, C Brosset, J Bucalossi, S Droste, G Esser, G Haas, A Herrmann, A Kirscher, A Kreter, K Krieger, J Likonen, A Litnovsky, M Mayer, V Mertens,

Ph Morgan, V Philipps, G Ramos, S Richter, V Rohde, J Roth, M Rubel, A Sergienko, E Tsitrone, E Vainonen-Ahlgren, P Wienhold,

EU TF on PWI and JET EFDA contributors

Gas balance and Fuel retention

- Overview of “Gas balance and fuel retention” results

Tokamak experiments (JET, TS, AUG, TEXTOR)

Post mortem analysis (Laboratories)

- Summary and further plans

Euratom

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Introduction

- Evaluation of hydrogenic retention in present tokamaks is of high priority to

establish a database for ITER (400 sec ~ 7min…10-20 sec today). T-retention

constitutes an outstanding problem for ITER operation particularly for the choice

of the materials (carbon ?)

- A retention rate of 10% of the T injected in ITER would lead to the in- vessel

mobilisable T-limit (350 g) in 35 pulses.

- Retention rates of this order (~10-20%) or higher are regularly found using gas balance in C-wall tokamaks.

- Retention rate ~5 times lower are obtained using post mortem analysis

- Are these two methods reliable to evaluate the retention and is it possible to understand why they lead to different results ?

- SEWG to clarify Gas Balance vs post mortem analysis

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physics: material erosion, migration & fuel retention

• QMB measurements

• Spectroscopy

• Gas balance measurements

• Deposition probes

• 13C migration

• Post mortem tile analysis

D,T

Mechanisms for fuel retention

Two basic mechanisms for

Long term fuel retention

Deep Implantation, Diffusion/Migration,

Trapping

C, Be C, Be, D ,T

In carbon wall devices codeposition dominates retention (also expected for Be wall conditions, JET ILW, ITER)

Codeposition

Short term retention (Adsorption: dynamic retention)

Recovered by outgasing in between discharges

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Calibrated Particle Source

(Gas, NBI…)

Divertor cryo-pumps

Wall Retention

Long & Short Term

Particle balance procedure on JETRepeat sets of identical discharges (no intershot conditioning)

Plasma

Injection = Pumped + Short Term Ret + Long Term Ret

Total recovered from cryo-regeneration: Pumped + intershot outgassing over ~800s (assumed equal to Short Term Ret )

Regenerate cryopumps before and after expt. collect total pumped gas (accuracy~1.2%)

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Particle fluxes: H mode Type I

From L mode to Type I ELM H-mode Increase of long term retention- with the recycling flux- with ELMs Energy

Ip=2.0MA, BT=2.4T

13MW NBI+ICRH ELM Energy~100kJ

@16 sec,

Ret~5.2x1021Ds-1

LongRet ~ ShortRet

@20 sec,

Ret~2.9x1021Ds-1

LongRet >>ShortRet

Injection

Pumped flux

Retention

Long Term Ret

Th Loarer et al

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Integrated particle fluxes

Hα

CIIIType I ELMs

Type III ELMs

L mode

L mode

Type I ELMs

Type III ELMs

Integrated CIII and Hα horizontal light

(L-mode, Type III and Type I ELMs)

- Slope for Type I ELMy H-mode shows both enhanced recycling and total carbon source.

Higher recycling and ELM Enhanced carbon erosion and transport leading to stronger carbon deposition and fuel codeposition

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ELM induced C deposition

Non-linear dependence of carbon erosion on ELM energy

thermal decomposition of surface layers and favourable geometry rapidly increases QMB deposition

1

3

4

QM

B

Can explains high deposition rates on water-cooled louvres during 97-98 JET DT experiments high T-retention

A Kreter, G Esser et al

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Particle Balance summary on JET

- Long term retention increases from L-mode to H-mode

Increased C erosion and transport due to increased recycling and effect of ELMs enhanced C erosion enhanced co-deposition and retention.

- Recovery between pulses (short term retention) always constant within a factor ~2 – in the range 1-31022D

Independent of discharge type, ELM energy, quantity of injected particles

Pulse type

Heating phase (s)

Divertor phase (s)

Injection(Ds-1)

Long term retention (Ds-1)

ret/inj

L-mode 81 126 ~1.81022 1.741021 ~10%

Type III 221 350 ~0.61022 1.311021 ~20%

Type I 32 50 ~1.71022 2.831021 ~17%

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Tore Supra: the DITS project

Objectives : • Clarify post mortem analysis vs Gas Balance• Retention mechanisms (codeposition vs bulk migration)

(Deuterium Inventory in Tore supra)

3 phases : • dedicated experimental campaign Gas Balance• dismantling of a sector of the limiter samples for post mortem analysis• sample analysis (collaboration with european labs, EU PWI TF)

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Scenario of the DITS campaign

Main issue : UFOs (C + metals + D ? ) detachment disruptions

scenario at lower LH power (< 1.8 MW) + slow ramp up

- No evolution for C - Fe and O level increasing to values before carbo/boronisation

Scenario 2 (lower power ~ 80 s)

Scenario 1 (nominal – 120 s)

Repetitive pulses every 20 mn (~ 40 mn of plasma each day)

5 h of plasma w/o conditionning

scenario at lower LH power (< 1.8 MW) + slow ramp up

Scenario 2 (lower power ~ 80 s)

scenario at lower LH power (< 1.8 MW) + slow ramp up

Scenario 2 (lower power ~ 80 s)

E Tsitrone et al

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UFOs on CCD imaging of the TPL

E Tsitrone et al

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1st scenario : PLH = 2 MW 2nd scenario : PLH = 1.6-1.8 MW

No wall saturation observed after 5h00

E Tsitrone et al

Injected ~ 5.8x1024D (19.5 g)

Trapped ~3.3x1024D (11 g)

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Inventory proportional to discharge duration

Disch. OK

Disruptions

Outgassing

Trapping

E Tsitrone et al

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Total exhausted = (6×10-5 Pa) × (1.3×106 s) × 10 m3/s ~ 700 Pa.m3/s ~ 3.5×1023 D atomsto be compared to WI ~ 3.3×1024 D atoms (~ 10 %)(upper limit : D2 concentration in pumped gas decreases rapidly)

Long term recovery << wall inventory

E Tsitrone et al

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Summary

DITS experimental campaign : successfully completed• 13C carbonisation / 11B boronisation performed• 5h of plasma w/o conditionning : 1 year of operation in 2 weeks• Reliable operation (LH, cooling loops, PFCs)• Main limit : UFOs disruptions operational limit ?• 80 % of the objective reached (WI = 3.3 1024 D or ~11g) : ok for qualitative and quantitative analysis

Particle balance• No wall saturation, retention proportional to discharge duration. • Exhausted gas dominated by D during the shots• Disruptions at low Ip, long term recovery : negligible in the balance

DITS project on tracks : TPL sector dismantled, selected fingers extracted samples available for analysis ~ november 2007

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Phases of discharges observed in C

Typical discharge “puff and pump” steady phase reached after ~2sec

V Rohde et al.

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Full W configuration: “Carbon free” machine, How does it compare to C in terms of fuel retention ?

In typical discharge “puff and pump” steady phase not reached

V Rohde et al.

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Gas balance with W wall

Wall loading observed, no steady state reachedV Rohde et al.

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Gas Balance summary from AUG in “W”

-Gas Balance is needed to verify the benefit of full tungsten wall.

-Support from EU TF on PWI to investigate gas balance, but support more

difficult from man power point of view.

-However, experiments performed and detailed analysis to start soon.

-Data set exits, but direct comparison with C is very difficult due to different

plasma scenario.

-Accuracy is dominated by pumping of cryo pump.

- Due to the high gas puffing rate (>1022Ds-1), an accuracy of ~1% is required

in AUG. Improvement of the accuracy by adding a separated volume to

store all the gas (as in AGHS in JET)

V Rohde et al.

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Deuterium retention in CFCDeuterium retained in the samples (by TDS)

EK98DMS780NB31

Comparison with PISCES-A data (J.Roth PSI 06)

Retention in both CFCs slightly higher than in EK98Good agreement with N11 exposed in PISCES-A

No saturation observed for obtained fluencesFuel retention in TEXTOR is dominated by co-deposition (Contribution of in-bulk retention to total retention ~10%)

Photograph of the test limiter with material stripes exposed in TEXTOR

NB

31

ITER

DM

S780

JET

EK

98 TEXTOR:

Ts = 500K

A.Kreter et al.

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Toroidal direction

Poloidal direction

SOL Plasma

Shaped cells

10x10x12(15)mm

Rectangular cells

10x10x15 mm

The shape of a castellation cells can be optimized to reduce impurity and fuel transport into gaps

2 shapes of castellation studied

Experimental details

● Shaped and rectangular cells

exposed under the same plasma

conditions

● 16 repetitive discharges:

112 sec, Te~20eV, ne~6x1018m-3

•Fluence averaged over plasma—wetted area:•Rectangular cells: 2.2*1020 D/cm2

•Shaped cells: 4.2*1020 D/cm2

● Post-exposure analyses with

SIMS, Dektak, NRA and EPMA

on all sides of poloidal and

toroidal gaps.

Gaps 0.5 mm

Exposure of W castellated limiter in the SOL of TEXTOR

20o

Toroidal gaps

Poloidal gaps

A. Litnovsky

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0 2 4 6 8 10 120

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

0.1

1

10

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 140

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

0.1

1

10

●Toroidal gaps exposed deep in plasma

Fuel accumulation in toroidal gaps

Shaped geometry Rectangular geometry

D/C (%)

NС, *1016 at./cm2

ND, *1014 at./cm2

D/C (%)NC, ND

D/C (%)

NС, *1016 at./cm2

ND, *1015 at./cm2

D/C (%)NC, ND

Distance from the top of a gap, mm

Plasma-closest edge

Less fuel in gaps of shaped cells

Distance from the top of a gap, mm

Plasma-closest edgeDΣ=1.46×1015 at/cm2 DΣ=3.46×1015 at/cm2

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●Poloidal gaps

Different fuel retention in the poloidal and toroidal gaps

Plasma flow

open sideshadowed sidePlasma-

Ongoing research: short summary

More fuel retention in plasma-shadowed sides;

2-3 times more fuel stored in gaps of shaped cells*;

●Toroidal gaps

At least 2 times less fuel stored in gaps of shaped cells exposed deeper in

plasma;

Independently on shaping, at least 2 times more fuel stored in the toroidal gaps

exposed further away from plasma;

Still less fuel in gaps of shaped cells exposed further away from plasma,

although the difference is around 50%.

A. Litnovsky et al., Phys. Scr. T 128 (2007) 45;

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Be toroidal belt limiter

Operation: 1989 – 1992

56 000 s of plasma (~16 hours)

2000 castellated blocks.

Studies performed with Ion Beam Analysis on two tiles:• Castellated grooves: both sides of 6 grooves;• Side surface between the tiles; • Top surfaces of tiles.

Deposition and Fuel Inventory in Castellated Beryllium Limiters from JET

Be

Be

Be

M. Rubel et al

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Top and Side Surfaces of Cleaved Beryllium Limiter Tiles

Cleaved limiter blocks mounted in the chamber for IBA

• Bridging of some gaps by molten Be.• Grooves are not filled with Be.

M. Rubel et al.

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Deposition in the Castellated Grooves of the Beryllium Limiter Tiles

Side A Side B

Surfaces in thecastellated groove

Freshly cleavedsurface

Freshly cleavedsurface

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3

6

9

12

15

18

0 3 6 9 12 15

Distance from Plasma [mm]

D a

nd

C [

e17/

cm2]

]

D, Side A

D, Side B

C, Side A

C, Side B

Messages:

• Deuterium deposition in the castellation is always associated with Carbon.

• Short decay length of deposition in the castellation: = 1.5 mm.

• D content in the castellated groove does not exceed 8 x 1017 cm-2.

• No deuterium detected in bulk beryllium.M. Rubel et al.

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10μm

7μm

72μm

44cm3

67cm3

99cm3

105cm3

233cm3 17cm3

464cm3

26μm

10μm

38μm

33μm

41μm

19cm3

24cm3

60g on louvre

18μm 300μm 32μm

Thicknesses: surface analysesVolumes: integration over torus

130μm

200μm 22μm

Deposition at divertor (MkIISRP, 2001-2004)

J Likonen et al

- Carbon: inner total 625 g (1.0 g/cm3)

=3.1x1025 C-atoms = 3.7x1020/sec, D/C from NRA → 30g D

Injected D: 1800g, retention fraction: 1.7%

- Carbon: outer 507 g = 2.5x1025 C= 3.1x1020/sec

Deuterium: D/C from NRA → 13 g

retention fraction: 0.7%

Total D retention: 43 g = 2.4 % of injected

No SRP included

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J Likonen et al

Deposition at OPL and IWGL (MkIISRP, 2001-2004)

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J Likonen et al

Conclusion for MkIISRP, 2001-2004

- Deposition at divertor very asymmetric (70% inner divertor, 30% at the outer)

- Main D retention at divertor

- OPL limiters have minor contribution to D retention

- IWGL have most likely a small contribution

- D retention: 10% (MkIIA), 4% (MkIIGB), 3% (MkIISRP, SRP analysis under way)

- Long term fuel retention: 13% (TFTR), 8% (TEXTOR), 5% (DIII-D) and 4% (AUG with C)

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AUG Wall areas and analysis methods

innerheatshield

upperdivertor

upperPSL

lowerPSL

pump duct

innerdivertor

roofbaffle

outerdivertor

ICRHlimiter

Analysis methods

• NRA D(3He,p) - 1000 keV: D inventory in 2 µm - 2500 keV: D inventory in 10 µm

• Marker stripes for RBS - Deposition of B, C (talk on 9.5.2007)

• SIMS

Data for 2002-2003 and 2004-2005

Campaigns Carbon dominated machine

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Deuterium retention in 2002–2003

Long-term D retention 3–4% of fuelling

Majority on divertor tiles (50-60%), followed by remote areas (20%)

Retention Fuelling

from (B+C),assumingD/(B+C)=0.4

Gas balance (V Mertens 2003): 10–20%Marginal agreement, taking error bars into account

M Mayer et al, Nuc Fus 2007

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• Exposed for 2 campaigns 2003 – 2005

about 7000 plasma seconds

• Thin W-coating with 4 µm thickness

using PVD

6A

6B

5

4

9A

9B

9C

1low

1up

2

3A

3B

WC

10

M Mayer et al

•Surface temperature close to RT,

with maximum of 500 K

•D/W = 20 – 30% at surface:

trapping with C: 2–4×1021 C/m2

•D/W = 0.01 – 0.1% in W-layer

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 710-3

10-2

10-1

100

101

Depth [m]

D in PVD-W (ASDEX UG)

D c

on

cen

tra

tion

[a

t.%

] position #1 position #5

QD(pos. 1) = 1.33x1021 D/m2

QD(pos. 5) = 1.69x1021 D/m2

Tungsten machinePreliminary resultsAnalysed tile for D inventory

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Evaluation of the total amount of D retained in W

D-inventory: 1.5×1021 D/m2

AUG wall area: 72 m2

1×1023 D-atoms = 0.3 g

D-input in 2 campaigns: 160 g

Retention with W-walls: < 0.2% of input

(Retention with C-walls ~ 4% of input)

M Mayer et al

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Summary & Comparison Gas balance-Post mortem

- Post mortem analysis confirm that the long term retention in the PFCs is low.

AUG (~4% in C, less in W), JET (~3-4%), TEXTOR and TS (DITS) ~8%- Post mortem analysis is representative of the averaged over a campaign of a small area (difficult for extrapolation: flakes in JET during DTE ): cumulative effects of thermal release (plasma ops.), GDC, disruptions, ….. (eg JET Averaged power with MkIIGB~4MW, and averaged fuel rate ~5x1021Ds-1 in 2007)- Retention in PFCs, mainly in the divertor (30% Outer leg/ 70% inner leg)

- Retention in gaps always associated to carbon, typical length ~4mm

Gas balance: Long term retention evaluated in the range 10-20% for carbon machine.Analysis generally carried out for plasma conditions different from averaged Retention increases with recycling (gas/NBI injection) and the ELMs (Type III to Type I)

eg “interesting pulse”~5 times the average” JET ~15-20MW, and fuel rate ~2.5x1022Ds-1

Long term recovery between pulses is negligible in the overall balance

Gas balance or Post mortem analysis: Carbon leads to high retention

Further results and experiments (main)

- AUG: analysis of the retention in a full W machine answer to the question of C

- Tore Supra: DITS project Where is the D trapped ? In the carbon structure ?

- JET: Preparation of the ILW (no carbon), reference pulses to be quantify in Carbon

- Complementary experiments of post mortem analysis