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Max Planck’s ELISE reaches record values for ITER plasma heating
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) announced that it recently has achieved a new record for ion current density for neutral particle heating at its ELISE (Extraction from a Large Ion Source Experiment) experimental testing facility in Garching, Germany. ELISE is being used to test neutral beam injection (NBI) systems that will be used to heat the plasma of the ITER fusion experiment in France.
Jarmo Kalilainen, Haeseong Kim, Abdel Dehbi, Terttaliisa Lind (PSI)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 571-577
Particle depletion in an enclosure with turbulent natural convection was investigated using severe accident code MELCOR 2.1. A model of the experimental DIANA facility was created and the results of the simulation were compared against the experimental and LES data from earlier work. Three particle sizes 0.5 ?m, 1.0 ?m and 2.5 ?m were used in the study. The temperature difference between the vertical isothermal walls of the enclosure was varied between 40 K, 20 K and 10 K. The MELCOR model reproduced the stratified temperature field and the encircling natural convective flow in the cavity qualitatively. The deposition rate was well matched between the MELCOR and experimental data, but further analysis indicated that the thermophoresis was overestimated in the MELCOR modeling, thus compensating for the turbulent deposition, which was not considered in this MELCOR simulation work.