Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST) is the fully superconducting Tokamak.The EAST magnet system comprises 16 D-shaped toroidal field coils and 14 poloidal field coils which are cooled by supercritical ...Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST) is the fully superconducting Tokamak.The EAST magnet system comprises 16 D-shaped toroidal field coils and 14 poloidal field coils which are cooled by supercritical helium at 4.2 K and 3.8 K.The temperature of superconducting coils is measured by Cernox as a new type low-temperature sensor,and monitored during the cooling and operation.The helium temperature can offer reference for quench signal.In this paper,a technique for the weak temperature signal measurement of superconducting coils is introduced,and its weak voltage is extracted from the intrinsic noise of the amplifier by the low-noise instrumentation amplifier,filter circuit,and high-linearity analog optocoupler.The temperature detection circuit works accurately and safely whether in cooling or operating process.This technique is an effective for the temperature detection on the low-temperature superconducting coils.展开更多
An improved ohmic confinement has been achieved on HT-6M tokamak after application of edge ohmic heating pulse which makes plasma current rapidly ramp up(0.4 ms)in a ramp rate of 12 MA/s.The improved ohmic confinement...An improved ohmic confinement has been achieved on HT-6M tokamak after application of edge ohmic heating pulse which makes plasma current rapidly ramp up(0.4 ms)in a ramp rate of 12 MA/s.The improved ohmic confinement phase is characterized by(a)energy and particle confinement time increase,(b)non-symmetric increased density ne,(c)reduced Hαradiation,(d)increased Te and steeper Te,ne profile at the edge.The results from soft x-ray sawteeth inversion radius andβ_(p)+l_(i)/2 implied the anomalous current penetration.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina(No.11005126)
文摘Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST) is the fully superconducting Tokamak.The EAST magnet system comprises 16 D-shaped toroidal field coils and 14 poloidal field coils which are cooled by supercritical helium at 4.2 K and 3.8 K.The temperature of superconducting coils is measured by Cernox as a new type low-temperature sensor,and monitored during the cooling and operation.The helium temperature can offer reference for quench signal.In this paper,a technique for the weak temperature signal measurement of superconducting coils is introduced,and its weak voltage is extracted from the intrinsic noise of the amplifier by the low-noise instrumentation amplifier,filter circuit,and high-linearity analog optocoupler.The temperature detection circuit works accurately and safely whether in cooling or operating process.This technique is an effective for the temperature detection on the low-temperature superconducting coils.
文摘An improved ohmic confinement has been achieved on HT-6M tokamak after application of edge ohmic heating pulse which makes plasma current rapidly ramp up(0.4 ms)in a ramp rate of 12 MA/s.The improved ohmic confinement phase is characterized by(a)energy and particle confinement time increase,(b)non-symmetric increased density ne,(c)reduced Hαradiation,(d)increased Te and steeper Te,ne profile at the edge.The results from soft x-ray sawteeth inversion radius andβ_(p)+l_(i)/2 implied the anomalous current penetration.