Magnetic Sensorless Sensing of Plasma Position in the Superconducting Tokamak HT-7

Magnetic sensorless sensing experiments of the plasma horizontal positionhave been carried out in the superconducting tokamak HT-7. The horizontal position is calculatedfrom the vertical field coil current and voltage without using signals of magnetic probes placednearby a plasma. The calculations are focused on the ripple frequency component of the power supply.There is no drift problem with the time integration of magnetic probe signals. The error of thederived plasma position is lower than 2% of the plasma minor radius.

Improved plasma position detection method in EAST Tokamak using fast CCD camera

To control the steady-state operation of Tokamak plasma, it is crucial to accurately obtain its shape and position. This paper presents a method for use in rapidly detecting plasma configuration during discharge of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak device. First, a visible/infrared integrated endoscopy diagnostic system with a large field of view is introduced,and the PCO.edge5.5 camera in this system is used to acquire a plasma discharge image. Based on the analysis of various traditional edge detection algorithms, an improved wavelet edge detection algorithm is then introduced to identify the edge of the plasma. In this method, the local maximum of the modulus of wavelet transform is searched along four gradient directions, and the adaptive threshold is adopted. Finally, the detected boundary is fitted using the least square iterative method to accurately obtain the position of the plasma. Experimental results obtained using the EAST device show that the method presented in this paper can realize expected goals and produce ideal effects;this method thus has significant potential for application in further feedback control of plasma.

Study on the Effect of Mutated Bacillus megaterium in Two-Stage Fermentation of Vitamin C

Bacillus megaterium as a companion strain in two-stage fermentation of vitamin C could secrete some active substances to spur growth of Gluconobacter oxydans to produce 2-KLG. In the fermenting system where Gluconobacter oxydans was combined with GB82-a mutated strain of B. megaterium by ion implantation, the amount of 2-KLG harvested was larger than that produced by the original B. megaterium BP52 being substituted for GB82. In this paper, we studied the effect of the active substances secreted by GB82 to enhance the capability of Gluconobacter oxydans to produce 2-KLG. The supernate of GB82 sampled at different cultivation times all had much more activity to spur Gluconobacter oxydans to yield 2-KLG than that of the original B. megaterium, which might be due to the genetic changes in the active components caused by ion implantation. Furthermore, the active substances of GB82's supernate would lose a part of its activity in extreme environments, which is typical of some proteins.

MHD Instabilities and Their Effects on Plasma Confinement in Large Helical Device Plasmas with Intense Neutral Beam Injection

MHD stability of the Large Helical Device (LHD) plasmas produced with intenseneutral beam injection is experimentally studied. When the steep pressure gradient near the edge isproduced through L-H transition or linear density ramp experiment, interchange-like MHD modes whoserational surface is located very close to the last closed flux surface are strongly excited in acertain discharge condition and affect the plasma transport appreciably. In NBI-heated plasmasproduced at low toroidal field, various Alfven eigenmodes are often excited. Bursting toroidalAlfven egenmodes excited by the presence of energetic ions induce appreciable amount of energeticion loss, but also trigger the formation of internal and edge transport barriers.

Unpredictable Property of a Kicked Billiard Ball

A simultaneous change in the systemic property of a kicked billiard ball is observed from an entirely smooth and conservative state to a piecewise smooth and quasi-dissipative state when a single controlling parameter has been adjusted. The transition induces a sudden change of a typical conservative stochastic web into a transient web. The iterations on the transient web eventually escape to some elliptic islands. In the meantime, a fat fractal forbidden web, which appears also at the threshold, grows up and cuts away increasingly more parts from the original conservative stochastic web. We numerically show that the initial conditions that generated different attractors are mixed in a random manner and the pattern remains unchanged even when smaller and smaller scales are used for examination, indicating a riddle-like basin structure that practically rules out the possibility of predicting the attractors from a given initial condition.

Axial Shock in a Cylindrical Plasma with Current

Hugoniot relations of a two-dimensional axial shock with current and magnetic field in a cylindrical shock tube were investigated by a numerical method. The radial profiles of the magnetic field, electric current, pressures, flow velocities and temperatures between the up- and down-stream radial force-balanced plasma of the shock were revealed by numerical analysis. It is clearly found that the axial shock can lead to two effects： one is an inverse skin effect （i.e., the current density rises towards the center of the conductor）, the another is a reversed current effect which occurs near the edge and about a half radius. It is also found that the radial gradient of pressure, density and temperature all become very large near the center due to the axial shock.

Microwave CVD Thick Diamond Film Synthesis Using CH4/H2/H2O Gas Mixtures

Thick diamond films with a thickness of up to 1.2 mm and a area of 20 cm^2 have been grown in a homemade 5 kW microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition （MPCVD） reactor using CH4/H2/H2O gas mixtures. The growth rate, radial profiles of the film thickness, diamond morphology and quality were evaluated with a range of parameters such as the substrate temperature of 700℃ to 1100℃, the fed gas composition CH4/H2 = 3.0%, H2O/H2 = 0.0%,-2.4%. They were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. Translucent diamond wafers have been produced without any sign of non-diamond carbon phases, Raman peak as narrow as 4.1 cm^-1. An interesting type of diamond growth instability under certain deposition conditions was observed in a form of accelerated growth of selected diamond crystallites of a very big lateral size, about 1 mm, and of a better structure compared to the rest of the film.