Initial design of the 60 megawatt rotating magnetic field (RMF) oscillator system for the University of Washington "TCS" field reversed configuration experiment

Author

Reass, W.A. ; Miera, D.A. ; Wurden, G.A.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

6-10 Oct 1997

Firstpage

473

Abstract

This paper presents the initial electrical and mechanical design of two phase-locked 30 Megawatt RMS, 150 kHz oscillator systems used for current drive and plasma sustainment of the "translation, confinement, and sustainment" (TCS) field reversed configuration (FRC) plasma. By the application of orthogonally-placed saddle coils on the surface of the glass vacuum vessel, the phase controlled rotating magnetic field perturbation will induce an electric field in the plasma which should counter the intrinsic ohmic decay of the plasma, and maintain the FRC.

Keywords

fusion reactor design; phase locked oscillators; reversed field pinch; 150 kHz; 30 MW; 60 MW; FRC plasma; TCS field reversed configuration; current drive; electrical design; fusion reactor design; mechanical design; ohmic decay; orthogonally-placed saddle coils; phase-locked oscillator; plasma sustainment; rotating magnetic field oscillator; Circuits; Coils; Impedance matching; Magnetic fields; Oscillators; Plasma applications; Plasma confinement; Plasma waves; Timing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 1997. 17th IEEE/NPSS Symposium

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4226-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.1997.687083

Filename

687083