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Diagnostic Lithium Beam System for COMPASS Tokamak
Háček, P. ; Weinzettl, Vladimír ; Stöckel, Jan ; Anda, G. ; Veres, G. ; Zoletnik, S. ; Berta, M.
The COMPASS tokamak has been re-installed in IPP Prague after its transport from Culham in UK. A Diagnostic Lithium Beam system is being developed for COMPASS tokamak. Its main goal is to provide edge density (Beam Emission Spectroscopy) and edge plasma current (Atomic Beam Probe) measurements to address the scientific programme focused on H-mode and pedestal physics. It features several newly designed and developed parts, including improved emitter and neutralizer. Atomic Beam Probe is an innovatory diagnostic for measurement of poloidal magnetic field and plasma current fluctuations in the plasma edge. Currently, the system is connected to tokamak (August 2011) and first experiments with plasma were performed. The system still undergoes vacuum, neutralization and high voltage testing. This article reviews the concept and current state of the Lithium Beam diagnostic for COMPASS and provides its first test results.
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Data Acquisition System and Data Processing for the New Thomson Scattering System on the COMPASS Tokamak
Aftanas, Milan ; Bílková, Petra ; Böhm, Petr ; Weinzettl, Vladimír ; Stöckel, Jan ; Hron, Martin ; Pánek, Radomír ; Scannell, R. ; Walsh, M.
The Thomson scattering (TS) will be one of crucial plasma diagnostics of the COMPASS tokamak. This newly build-up multi-point system consists of two Nd:YAG lasers (1.6J at 1064nm, 30Hz each) and cascade filter polychromators with avalanche photodiodes. It will enable measurements of both the electron temperature Te (20eV − 5000eV ) and density ne (1019 − 1020m−3) profiles with spatial resolution up to 3mm in the vertical direction in 56 spatial points. The uniquely designed complex data acquisition system based on fast analog digital convertors (1GS/s) reflects the need to retrieve/digitize the signal originated from scattering process of the laser pulse lasting less than 10ns. This paper presents a detailed review of the architecture of the control and the data acquisition (DAQ) system and its features. LabViewr will be used as a main layer for the TS data acquisition. Routines specifically written for controlling the DAQ of TS on COMPASS are presented.
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Atomic Beam Probe Diagnostic for COMPASS Tokamak
Háček, Pavel ; Weinzettl, Vladimír ; Stöckel, Jan ; Anda, G. ; Veres, G. ; Zoletnik, S. ; Berta, M.
The COMPASS tokamak has been re-installed in IPP Prague after its transport from Culham in UK. New diagnostic tools are under development to address the scientific program focused on H-mode and pedestal physics. Atomic Beam Probe (ABP) is an innovatory diagnostic for measurement of poloidal magnetic field and plasma current fluctuations in the plasma edge. It is planned to be an extension of the beam emission spectroscopy system by collecting the lithium ions stemming from beam ionization. In the first approximation, ionization is proportional to the local plasma density. The poloidal magnetic field moves the ions toroidally. Therefore, the two-dimensional poloidal-toroidal measurement of the ion current in the exit port reveals information on both the density and magnetic field profiles, thereby also on the edge current profile. This article reviews the concept of the ABP diagnostic and the status of its installation on the COMPASS tokamak.
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Application of Pulsed Electric Field on Bacteria
Kadlec, Tomáš ; Babický, Václav ; Člupek, Martin ; Vrbová, M.
Electrical discharges in a water solution cause several processes. e.g., generation of UV radiation, free radicals, and a shockwave, pulse electric field (PEF) takes place too. The PEF was studied separately to achieve better understanding of this complex process. PEF treatment is chemical-free process affecting microbes. An experimental device for PEF treatment was constructed. Solution containing microbial culture of Bacillus subtilis was treated.
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Measurement of the Laser Beam Position and Width for the Thomson Scattering Diagnostics on Tokamak COMPASS
Aftanas, Milan ; Bílková, Petra ; Böhm, Petr ; Weinzettl, Vladimír ; Stöckel, Jan ; Hron, Martin ; Pánek, Radomír
COMPASS tokamak is equipped with new key diagnostic—Thomson scattering system. This unique multi-point system has been designed with the main aim to investigate electron density and temperature profiles on the COMPASS tokamak (R = 0.56 m, a = 0.18 m, BT max = 2.1 T). The spatial resolution is optimized namely for the pedestal studies (radial spatial resolution a/100). This contribution describes particular steps of optical alignment of the important part of the Thomson scattering system, Nd:YAG lasers (1.6 J at 1064 nm, 30 Hz). Laser beam width has to be precisely measured and laser beam position has to be precisely set before the measurement and checked for all laser shots to be able of decrypting the information about the plasma density and also to improve precision of the measurement. New tool for automatic measurement of the laser beam misalignment is introduced.
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Measurements of Ion Temperature in the Edge Plasma of the COMPASS Tokamak
Naydenkova, Diana ; Janky, Filip ; Weinzettl, Vladimír ; Stöckel, Jan ; Šesták, David ; Odstrčil, T. ; Ghosh, J. ; Gomes, R. ; Pereira, T.
The two-grating spectrometer, which has been developed for the ISTTOK tokamak, allows an estimation of the temporal evolution of both ion temperature and poloidal velocity of the edge plasma by analysis of Doppler-shifted and broadened CIII spectral lines at ~465nm. At the current phase of the COMPASS tokamak operation, the first measurements of ion temperature using the optical system based on the spectrometer were performed and first results are presented.
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Ceramo-metallic materials of the Ti-B-C and Ti-B-N systems
Brožek, V. ; Doležal, J. ; Novák, M. ; Ctibor, Pavel ; Kolman, Blahoslav Jan
Products prepared by the sintering of titanium and boron carbide powder and by the sintering of titanium and boron nitride powder were studied. The sintering was performed at 2,000 °C under the pressure of 6 GPa in a high-pressure apparatus of BELT-type with sufficient holding time to reach thermodynamic equilibrium. The results of chemical and phase composition analyses were compared with thermodynamic prediction of possible reactions in the system. We proved the preferential formation of borides TiB and TiB2 prior to the carbides or nitrides formation. The products, which may be considered Ti-(TiB,TiB2)-TiN or Ti-(TiB,TiB2)-TiC cermets, were analysed in order to determine their microstructure, phase and chemical composition and their influence on mechanical properties such as hardness or elastic modulus. This work precedes similar study which will be performed using the same powders processed by plasma spraying, which enables to stabilize high-temperature phases by rapid cooling.
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Characterization of fluctuating discharge
Chumak, Oleksiy ; Hrabovský, Milan
A digital camera coupled with computer has a great potential in an analysis of discharges structures. This work analyzes an approach to visualization of dynamic radiant object. Mapping of brightness uncertainty values is used to show regions of different fluctuation intensity of radiation. The entropy as described by information theory was used as a relevant parameter for an uncertainty value. By a mathematical procedure a relative parameter based on the entropy was evaluated. As result an effects of optics sensitivity or of imperfections of experimental set-up were significantly suppressed.
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