Characterization of JT-60U exhaust gas during experimental operation

JT-60U試験運転時の排ガス組成の特徴

磯部 兼嗣; 中村 博文; 神永 敦嗣; 都筑 和泰; 東島 智; 西 正孝; 小林 靖典*; 小西 哲之*

Isobe, Kanetsugu; Nakamura, Hirofumi; Kaminaga, Atsushi; Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro; Higashijima, Satoru; Nishi, Masataka; Kobayashi, Yasunori*; Konishi, Satoshi*

トカマク試験装置の排ガス組成を知ることは、今後の核融合装置の燃料循環処理系の最適化設計を検討していくうえで非常に重要である。今回、2003年から2004年にかけて実施されたJT-60U試験運転時の排ガス組成を測定し、プラズマ放電内容との相関を調査した。排ガス中における水素同位体の濃度は、放電ごとにピーク値を持ち、高性能プラズマや長時間運転で高い値を示す傾向が見られた。一方、ヘリウムや炭化水素などの不純物成分は、ディスラプション時やグロー放電,テイラー放電といった壁調整放電時に高い濃度で検出された。また、通常のプラズマ放電においても、水素同位体と同様に高性能プラズマや長時間運転で高い濃度を示す傾向が見られ、最大で8%の炭化水素濃度が測定された。

Exhaust gas from JT-60U during experimental operation has been measured with Gas Chromatography (GC), and the gas exhaust characteristic from JT-60U on plasma discharge conditions has been investigated during the JT-60U experimental campaign in 2003-2004. During experimental operation of JT-60U, hydrogen isotope concentration strongly depended on the type of discharges such as high performance, long pulse and so on. On the other hand, impurity species, such as helium, hydrocarbon and carbon oxide, were detected during plasma discharges occasionally. During the experimental operation, plasma disruption remarkably tended to produce high concentration impurities. Glow discharge and Taylor discharge for wall conditioning also produced impurities. In the case of normal plasma, impurity was detected and high performance plasma, such as high plasma, tended to produce high concentration impurities. This result indicated that impurities concentration might be higher in the case of normal plasma in ITER, because of its high performance.