Radio-frequency heating plans for CTX
Abstract
Electron thermal conduction and residual impurity radiation causes substantial cooling of the plasma toroid by the time it has formed inside the flux conserver. Auxiliary heating of the stable structure is needed. If an energy of several hundred joules is to be supplied over a hundred microsecond time scale, several megawatts of power are required. Such levels can be achieved from pulsed rf sources at frequencies in the ion cyclotron range and below (0.1 to 10 MHz).
- Publication:
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Presented at the 4th Ann. Compact Toroid Symp
- Pub Date:
- December 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981coto.symp...27K
- Keywords:
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- Heat Transfer;
- High Temperature Propellants;
- Induction Heating;
- Ohmic Dissipation;
- Radio Frequency Heating;
- Toroidal Plasmas;
- Plasma Heating;
- Poloidal Flux;
- Resistance Heating;
- Thermodynamic Properties;
- Communications and Radar