Maintenance of the 1st NBI vacuum system for the KSTAR tokamak

Autor: Young Ju Lee, Hyun Taek Park, Jong Su Kim, Jong Gu Kwak
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 1240:012099
ISSN: 1757-899X
1757-8981
DOI: 10.1088/1757-899x/1240/1/012099
Popis: First neutral beam injection system for the KSTAR tokamak has been operated after the installation and commissioning on 2010. To provide 120 keV and more than 6 MW deuterium neutral beam, it requires large vacuum pumping system with the pumping speeds 1.0E6 l/s range. For this purpose, R&D works with a prototype cryosorption panel had performed from Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and GM cooler based 2 stage cryosorption pump was accepted for the 1st NBI system. During 10 years of annual operation, the pumping speeds decreased continuously due to the damage in cryopanels and all of the cryopanels were repaired for the 2021 KSTAR campaign. Details of the 1st KSTAR NBI vacuum pumping system will be introduced and long operation results including the behavior after the repair, will be reported in this paper.
Databáze: OpenAIRE