Optimization of the Water-Cooled Structure for the Divertor Plates in EAST Based on an Orthogonal Theory

An orthogoual experimental scheme was designed for optimizing a water-cooled structure of the divertor plate. There were three influencing factors： the radius R of the water- cooled pipe, and the pipe spacing L1 and L3. The influence rule of different factors on the cooling effect and thermal stress...

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Published inPlasma science & technology Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 435 - 440
Main Author 李磊 姚达毛 刘常乐 周自波 曹磊 梁超
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.05.2015
Subjects
Cooling effects
Cooling rate
Optimization
Pipe
Plates
Plates (structural members)
Thermal stresses
偏滤器
冷却效果
冷却结构
实验方案
板
正交
水冷结构
结构优化
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Summary:An orthogoual experimental scheme was designed for optimizing a water-cooled structure of the divertor plate. There were three influencing factors： the radius R of the water- cooled pipe, and the pipe spacing L1 and L3. The influence rule of different factors on the cooling effect and thermal stress of the plate were studied, for which the influence rank was respectively R 〉 L1 〉 L3 and L3 〉 R 〉 L1. The highest temperature value decreased when R and L1 increased~ and the maximum thermal stress value dropped when R, L1 and L3 increased. The final optimized results can be summarized as： R equals 6 mm or 7 mm, L1 equals 19 mm, and L3 equals 20 mm. Compared with the initial design, the highest temperature value had a small decline~ and the maximum thermal stress value dropped by 19~ to 24~. So it was not ideal to improve the cooling effect by optimizing the geometry sizes of the water-cooled structure, even worse than increasing the flow speed, but it was very effective for dropping the maximum thermal stress value. The orthogoaal experimental method reduces the number of experiments by 80%, and thus it is feasible and effective to optimize the water-cooled structure of the divertor plate with the orthogonal theory.
Bibliography:orthogonal theory, divertor plate, water-cooled structure, cooling effect, thermal stress, optimization
An orthogoual experimental scheme was designed for optimizing a water-cooled structure of the divertor plate. There were three influencing factors： the radius R of the water- cooled pipe, and the pipe spacing L1 and L3. The influence rule of different factors on the cooling effect and thermal stress of the plate were studied, for which the influence rank was respectively R 〉 L1 〉 L3 and L3 〉 R 〉 L1. The highest temperature value decreased when R and L1 increased~ and the maximum thermal stress value dropped when R, L1 and L3 increased. The final optimized results can be summarized as： R equals 6 mm or 7 mm, L1 equals 19 mm, and L3 equals 20 mm. Compared with the initial design, the highest temperature value had a small decline~ and the maximum thermal stress value dropped by 19~ to 24~. So it was not ideal to improve the cooling effect by optimizing the geometry sizes of the water-cooled structure, even worse than increasing the flow speed, but it was very effective for dropping the maximum thermal stress value. The orthogoaal experimental method reduces the number of experiments by 80%, and thus it is feasible and effective to optimize the water-cooled structure of the divertor plate with the orthogonal theory.
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LI Lei , YAO Damao , CAO Lei, LIANG Chao , LIU Changle , ZHOU Zibo （ Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China）
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ISSN:1009-0630
DOI:10.1088/1009-0630/17/5/12