Overview of recent developments in pellet injection for ITER

SK Combs, LR Baylor, SJ Meitner… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Pellet injection is the primary fueling technique planned for core fueling of ITER burning
plasmas. Also, the injection of relatively small pellets to purposely trigger rapid small edge …

Pellet-injector technology—brief history and key developments in the last 25 years

SK Combs, LR Baylor - Fusion Science and Technology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
High-speed injection of solid fuel was first proposed in 1954 as a possible solution to the
problem of transporting fresh fuel across the confining magnetic fields into the plasma of a …

Systems and methods for forming and maintaining a high performance FRC

MW Binderbauer, E Garate, S Putvinski… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central
confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections …

Design of a shattered pellet injection system on J-TEXT tokamak

Y Li, ZY Chen, YN Wei, RH Tong, W Yan… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Disruptions have the possibility of causing severe wall damage to large tokamaks like ITER.
The mitigation of disruption damage is essential to the safe operation of a large-scale …

Systems and methods for forming and maintaining a high performance FRC

M Tuszewski, MW Binderbauer, S Putvinski… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central
confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections …

Systems and methods for forming and maintaining a high performance FRC

M Tuszewski, M Binderbauer, D Barnes… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods that facilitate the formation and maintenance of new High
Performance Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs). An FRC system for the High …

Statistical assessment of ELM triggering by pellets on JET

M Lennholm, R McKean, R Mooney… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This article investigates the triggering of ELMs on JET by injection of frozen pellets of
isotopes of Hydrogen. A method is established to determine the probability that a specific …

A repetitive pellet injection system for steady state fuelling in EAST superconducting tokamak

CZ Li, JS Hu, Y Chen, IV Vinyar, JG Li… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A new hydrogen/deuterium pellet injector has been developed for Experimental Advanced
Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). The pellet injector based on a screw extruder is able to …

Systems and methods for forming and maintaining a high performance FRC

M Tuszewski, MW Binderbauer, S Putvinski… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central
confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections …

Combined FRC and mirror plasma studies in the C-2 device

M Tuszewski, A Smirnov, BH Deng… - Fusion Science and …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) is a high-beta Compact Toroid that
includes closed and open field line regions of poloidal magnetic field. Improving the …