Experimental study of the influence of gas puff locations on H-mode boundary plasmas with argon seeding on EAST. (8th June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: He, Tao; Yang, Zhongshi; Wang, Liang; Li, Kedong; Wang, Huiqian; Eldon, David; Hyatt, Alan; Humphreys, David; Meng, Lingyi; Ding, Fang; Wang, Yuming; Duan, Yanmin; Zhang, Ling; Xu, Jichan; Luo, Yu; Ye, Dawei; Chen, Xiahua; Yang, Qingquan; Nian, Feifei; Niu, Guojian; Xu, Guosheng; Luo, Guang-Nan
• Other Names: collab.
• Is Part Of: Plasma physics and controlled fusion. Volume 63:Number 8(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-06-08
• Subjects: radiative divertor -- argon -- puff locations -- poloidal asymmetry -- energy detachment; Plasma (Ionized gases) -- Periodicals; Controlled fusion -- Periodicals; 530.44
• DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/ac0354
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0741-3335

Abstract

Abstract: To investigate the optimal scenario of impurity seeding to obtain divertor plasma detachment for target protection, experiments with Ar&D2 seeding from two different poloidal locations, the upper outer (UO) divertor target and lower outer (LO) target, were carried out on EAST. Partial energy detachment (the electron temperature near the strike point T e, spt ⩽ 10 eV) were obtained with Ar&D2 mixture puffing from the UO target and, for the first time, from the LO target into H-mode plasmas in the upper single null (USN) configuration. The peak heat flux q t on the UO target was significantly reduced (by ∼80%). The rollover of ion flux density j s did not appear probably due to insufficient momentum loss, which is independent of the puff locations. The poloidal asymmetries of particle and heat fluxes on the targets have also been investigated. The UO-dominant asymmetry of particle flux was reversed, while the UO-dominant asymmetry of heat flux was mitigated but not reversed. The plasma confinement dropped by only 14% and 8.2% in the LO-puff case and UO-puff case, respectively, during detachment. The high level of C may contributed greatly to the higher radiation in the bulk plasma region and the greater decline in W MHD in the LO-puff case.