Design status of ITER IC H&CD plant system control

Author

Arambhadiya, B. ; Billava, D. ; Kazarian, F. ; Journeaux, J.Y. ; Beaumont, B. ; Lamalle, P. ; Rathi, D. ; Gassmann, T. ; Alonzo, T. ; Fredd, E. ; Greenough, N. ; Peters, Brian ; Rajnish, K. ; Trivedi, R.G. ; Mukherjee, Arjun ; Patel, Anup ; Thakar, A. ; D

Author_Institution

ITER Organ., St. Paul-lez-Durance, France

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A functional approach has been used to define functions & responsibility sharing of each Local Control Unit (LCU) and Ion Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive (IC H&CD) Plant System Control (IC-PSC). The resulting functional architecture of the IC H&CD control system is detailed in this paper. The paper highlights functional study of management of fast radio-frequency (RF) arc protection across the IC H&CD subsystems. Lastly, a possible hardware architecture compliant with the functional one is described.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor safety; plasma toroidal confinement; ICH-CD plant system control; ITER design status; current drive; fast radio-frequency arc protection; hardware architecture compliant; ion cyclotron heating; local control unit; Control systems; Hardware; Integrated circuits; Loaded antennas; Plasmas; Radio frequency; I&C; IC H&CD; ICRF; architecture; plant control; plant control system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 2013 IEEE 25th Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0169-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOFE.2013.6635448

Filename

6635448