Design and analysis of cooling water system for ECRH and ICRF testing bench

• Published in: Fusion engineering and design Vol. 206; p. 114572
• Main Authors: Chen, Lewen, Yang, Lei, Li, Weibao, Guo, Bin, Zhu, Lili
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Cooling water system; CRAFT; Design; Thermal hydraulic; Design; Cooling water system; Thermal hydraulic; CRAFT
• ISSN: 0920-3796
• DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2024.114572

•Designed a multiuser lumped cooling water system for ECRH and ICRF testing bench, which is different from the traditional one system corresponding to one cooling water system.•The water supply test of two users with 400t/h flow regulation is realized to verify the operation mode of the future fusion reactor.•The integrated cooling water system can greatly reduce the construction and maintenance costs of the system and the redundancy of the cooling water capacity. In EAST(Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak), the heat produced by ECRH (Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating) and ICRF (Ion Cyclotron range of Frequencies Heating) should be respectively removed through independent cooling water system. Their capacities are typically proposed based on the full power of the ECRH and ICRF. Indeed, the operational duration of the wave system is limited, which necessitates a larger cooling water capacity redundancy, occupies a significant amount of space, and requires a substantial budget. In this paper, the cooling water system for ECRH and ICRF of CRAFT (Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology) testing bench is designed according to its requirements.Initially, the optimization of the cooling water process is carried out in accordance with the specified parameters. Thereafter, the entire process is simulated employing the AFT Fathom code.Finally, a multiuser integrated cooling water system is designed, which is different from the traditional majority one-to-one mode. And the results show that all the parameters can meet the system requirements, meanwhile the redundancy of the cooling water capacity can be greatly reduced by flow regulation.The cooling water integral structure will provide a new idea for the design of fusion reactor cooling water systems.