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Prototyping and testing of the Continuous External Rogowski ITER magnetic sensor

FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN (2013)

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FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN

Volume 88, Issue 6-8, Pages 1165-1169

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA

DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2012.12.020

Keywords

ITER; Magnetic diagnostics; Rogowski coil

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The measurement of the plasma current in ITER plays an outstanding role as it is part of the machine protection and is a safety-relevant measurement: it will be used in relation with regulatory limits to show that the operation remains within the safe envelope defined in the ITER license. The Continuous External Rogowski (CER) is an inductive sensor designed for current measurements and located in the casing of 3 Toroidal Field Coils (TFCs). After the completion of the design of the CER, 4 prototypes of the sensor were manufactured and R&D activities were performed under a Grant with the European Domestic Agency (F4E-GRT-012). The work was carried out between 2010 and 2011 by the ITERMAG consortium comprising 3 laboratories: CRPP (Switzerland) as leader, CEA (France) and RFX (Italy). The R&D campaign on CER prototypes consisted in the measurement of about 100 parameters to characterize the CER in terms of electrical, thermal, mechanical and also of vacuum compatibility. From these results, electromagnetic modeling of the CER response was performed. It is demonstrated that the CER fulfills ITER requirements. However, the vacuum compatibility of the prototype has to be improved and solutions to cope with this issue are proposed. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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