Alcator C-Mod Run 1010712 Information

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Physics operator(s):Bill Rowan
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rom vacuum vent to Helium

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Entered: Jul 7 2004 04:37:13:817PM
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Physop Summary for 1010712

ENGINEERING SETUP FOR 1010712:

ECDC in D2 overnight stopping by 7:00 am.

RUN BEGINS AT 9:00 AND ENDS AT 5:00

Power systems the same as for shot 1010711009

Gas setup:
fill B-Top with 6 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG4)
fill B-side lower with 1 psi Ar Hybrid enabled (PG1)
fill B-side upper with 6 psi D2 Hybrid DISABLED (PG2)
fill C-side with 30 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3)
fill J-Bottom with 6 psi He Hybrid DISABLED(PG5)

Enable the following gate valves: ECE, DNB, VUV

RF STATUS:

XMTR 1 AND 2, RUN-ON STARTED AT 8:00 AM
XMTR 3 AND 4, RUN-ON STARTED AT 7:00 AM

RUN PLAN:

Recovery from vacuum vent to Helium, determining and reducing
H/D ratio, and determining RF matching coefficients for 70
MHz operation of J-Port antenna. We'll start with an 800 kA
shot @ 5.3 T and n~1.e20, and take it from there.

RUN SUMMARY
Much of the day was devoted to instrumenting and testing the
TF in search of the crowbar problem that appeared yesterday.
See PHYSOP_SUMMARY_1010711).

Shots 001-004 were engineering test shots.

Prior to the first plasma attempt (shot 005), we did about 10
minutes of ECDC. The first two plasma attempts (005 and 006)
were duds. ECDC between shots. One small change in BZ after
the first dud (005). The third plasma attempt (007) was
successful. Shot 009 disrupted at 0.45 s. After that, the
fill was reduced by 1 ms from 22 ms to 21 ms. The density
demand was reduced slightly at 0.18s. The final shot of the
day was successful.

SCORECARD

Plasmas 3
Disruptions 1
Fizzles 0
Duds 2
Engineering tests 4

Total 10

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Jul 12 2001 08:36:09:757AMBill RowanENGINEERING SETUP FOR 1010712:

ECDC in D2 overnight stopping by 7:00 am.

RUN BEGINS AT 9:00 AND ENDS AT 5:00

Power systems the same as for shot 1010711009

Gas setup:
fill B-Top with 6 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG4)
fill B-side lower with 1 psi Ar Hybrid enabled (PG1)
fill B-side upper with 6 psi D2 Hybrid DISABLED (PG2)
fill C-side with 30 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3)
fill J-Bottom with 6 psi He Hybrid DISABLED(PG5)

Enable the following gate valves: ECE, DNB, VUV

RF STATUS:

XMTR 1 AND 2, RUN-ON STARTED AT 8:00 AM
XMTR 3 AND 4, RUN-ON STARTED AT 7:00 AM

RUN PLAN:

Recovery from vacuum vent to Helium, determining and reducing H/D ratio, and
determining RF matching coefficients for 70 MHz operation of J-Port antenna.
We'll start with an 800 kA shot @ 5.3 T and n~1.e20, and take it from there.



From Irby: Two problems this morning. TF breaker requires check because of an indication
on the last shot yesterday. The TF crowbar problem that occured yesterday
has not been resolved.


Jul 12 2001 08:49:55:517AMBill RowanStarted pcs
Loaded the last shot from yesterday (1010711009) to use its starup
Imported segment 2 from shot 1010703003
Load/Clean

Completed cold start
12-JUL-2001 08:44:12.42 END COLD
*************** END COLDSTART ******************

Awaiting start of run. Will depend on progress of testing/repair

Jul 12 2001 11:16:07:307AM1010712001Bill Rowan001. Engineering test shot. Testing instrumentation.
Jul 12 2001 11:36:32:147AM1010712002Bill Rowan
002. Engineering test shot. Testing instrumentstion.
Jul 12 2001 02:22:55:933PM1010712003Bill Rowan003. Ingineering test shot.
Jul 12 2001 02:36:48:830PM1010712004Bill Rowan004. Engineering test shot.
Jul 12 2001 02:43:42:933PM1010712004Bill Rowan

Before the next shot. 10 minutes of ECDC
Jul 12 2001 03:15:30:420PM1010712005Bill Rowan

005. Dud.

ECDC before the next shot
Next shot: lowered BZ. IC_EF4U to -1280 from -1270
Jul 12 2001 03:34:07:120PM1010712006Bill Rowan006. Dud

ECDC before the next shot
Jul 12 2001 03:53:06:963PM1010712007Bill Rowan007. Plasma

Next shot. No changes
Jul 12 2001 04:18:00:407PM1010712008Bill Rowan008. Plasma

Next shot: no changes.
Opening DNB GV on the next shot. DNB firing at 1.1s.
Jul 12 2001 04:48:03:500PM1010712009Bill Rowan009. Plasma. Disruption at 0.45 s

Next shot. Reduced NL_04 demand from 0.7e+20 to 0.5e+20 at 0.18s
Reduce the prefill by 1 ms from 22 ms to 21 ms
Jul 12 2001 05:04:18:603PM1010712010Bill Rowan010. Plasma.

Engineering Operator Comments
ShotTimeTypeStatusComment
111:13:00:537AMTestOkCycle shot
211:34:20:037AMTestOkNo Power test shot
302:20:34:760PMTestOkTF 50 ka Test
402:35:00:343PMTestOk150 KA TF test Shot
503:00:05:053PMPlasmaOk
603:22:16:773PMPlasmaOk
703:45:11:483PMPlasmaOk
804:08:48:110PMPlasmaOk
904:32:54:713PMPlasmaOk
1004:58:53:517PMPlasmaOk