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Supplemental ELM control in ITER through beryllium granule injection
Injection of low-Z granules into high performance discharges on DIII-D has been shown to promptly trigger Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) providing high-Z impurity control without significant plasma degradation. The ability to provide ELM triggering over a range of injection and discharge parameters suggests that the mechanical introduction of granules can be considered as an additional method of impurity control in ITER. Utilizing a spherically symmetric vapor shielding model for granule ablation, benchmarked with impurity granule injections on DIII-D, we simulate the injection of beryllium granules into ITER baseline discharges. By comparing the granule induced ELM triggering size required for deuterium and non-fuel pellets on DIII-D and cross-correlating with a previously simulated JOREK calcuation of D pellet size required for ELM triggering in ITER, we estimate that a beryllium pellet of 1.5 mm diameter should provide reliable ELM triggering on ITER. This size pellet, delivered at 200 m/s should penetrate 3.5 cm past the separatrix, solidly within the H-mode steep gradient region, a location found to be advantageous for ELM triggering with minimal pellet size. Keywords: ELM pacing, granule injection, beryllium
Supplemental ELM control in ITER through beryllium granule injection
Injection of low-Z granules into high performance discharges on DIII-D has been shown to promptly trigger Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) providing high-Z impurity control without significant plasma degradation. The ability to provide ELM triggering over a range of injection and discharge parameters suggests that the mechanical introduction of granules can be considered as an additional method of impurity control in ITER. Utilizing a spherically symmetric vapor shielding model for granule ablation, benchmarked with impurity granule injections on DIII-D, we simulate the injection of beryllium granules into ITER baseline discharges. By comparing the granule induced ELM triggering size required for deuterium and non-fuel pellets on DIII-D and cross-correlating with a previously simulated JOREK calcuation of D pellet size required for ELM triggering in ITER, we estimate that a beryllium pellet of 1.5 mm diameter should provide reliable ELM triggering on ITER. This size pellet, delivered at 200 m/s should penetrate 3.5 cm past the separatrix, solidly within the H-mode steep gradient region, a location found to be advantageous for ELM triggering with minimal pellet size. Keywords: ELM pacing, granule injection, beryllium
Supplemental ELM control in ITER through beryllium granule injection
R. Lunsford (author) / A. Bortolon (author) / R. Maingi (author) / D.K. Mansfield (author) / A. Nagy (author) / G.L. Jackson (author) / T. Osborne (author)
2019
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