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Characteristics of the positive ion source at reduced gas feed

Review of Scientific Instruments, ISSN: 1089-7623, Vol: 85, Issue: 11, Page: 113504
2014
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The neutral beam injector of steady state superconducting tokamak (SST1-NBI) at IPR is designed for injecting upto 1.7 MW of neutral beam (H, 30-55 keV) power to the tokamak plasma for heating and current drive. Operations of the positive ion source (PINI or Plug-In-Neutral-Injector) of SST1-NBI were carried out on the NBI test stand. The PINI was operated at reduced gas feed rate of 2-3 Torr l/s, without using the high speed cryo pumps. Experiments were conducted to achieve a stable beam extraction by optimizing operational parameters namely, the arc current (120-300 A), acceleration voltage (16-40 kV), and a suitable control sequence. The beam divergence, power density profiles, and species fractions (H:H:H) were measured by using the diagnostics such as thermal calorimetry, infrared thermography, and Doppler shift spectroscopy. The maximum extracted beam current was about 18 A. A further increase of beam current was found to be limited by the amount of gas feed rate to the ion source.

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S. K. Sharma; P. Bharathi; V. Prahlad; P. J. Patel; B. Choksi; M. R. Jana; L. K. Bansal; K. Qureshi; C. B. Sumod; V. Vadher; D. Thakkar; L. N. Gupta; S. Rambabu; S. Parmar; N. Contractor; A. K. Sahu; B. Pandya; B. Sridhar; S. Pandya; U. K. Baruah

AIP Publishing

Physics and Astronomy

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