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Pre-conceptual design of the steering mirror for the DEMO electron cyclotron heating system

Sanchez, Avelino Mas  
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Chavan, Rene  
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Birlan, Daniel  
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January 8, 2024
Fusion Engineering And Design

An Electron Cyclotron (EC) Heating and Current Drive (HCD) system will be installed in the EU DEMO Tokamak to provide plasma heating and stabilization by coupling up to 130 MW of mm-wave power into specific regions of the plasma. The mm -waves will be generated by gyrotrons and propagated through a quasi-optical multi-beam mirror system (MBMS), and subsequently through corrugated waveguides, to launchers located at dedicated Equatorial Ports (EPs). The present design of the launcher features two mid steering antennas (MSAs) for plasma stabilization each consisting of three -beam layouts and steering mirrors positioned at the upper and lower locations of the EP. The proposed concept for the steering mirrors operates on the pantograph principle, a mechanical assembly of parallel linkages, which translates the movement produced by pneumatic actuators into an exact angular rotation of the mirror around an offset virtual axis. This design uses flexures with specific structural compliance as mechanical joints resulting in the desired movement of the linkage system while avoiding the tribological difficulties associated with mechanisms operating under vacuum. This paper describes the present status of the DEMO EC HCD steering mirror as well as the analyses performed to validate this design.

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DOI
10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.114140
Web of Science ID

WOS:001154022100001

Author(s)
Sanchez, Avelino Mas  
Chavan, Rene  
Birlan, Daniel  
Goodman, Timothy P.  
Hogge, Jean-Philippe  
Borderas, Cinta Marraco  
Xydou, Anastasia  
Date Issued

2024-01-08

Publisher

Elsevier Science Sa

Published in
Fusion Engineering And Design
Volume

199

Article Number

114140

Subjects

Technology

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Demo

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Ec Hcd

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Steering Mirrors

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Kinematic Analysis

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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SPC  
FunderGrant Number

EURO- fusion Consortium, via the Euratom Research and Training Programme

101052200-EUROfusion

Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

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February 23, 2024
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