Alcator C-Mod Run 1020717 Information

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Session Leader:Steve Wukitch (shots 1-15)

Operators
Session leader(s):Steve Wukitch
Physics operator(s):Robert Granetz
Engineering operator(s):Bill Parkin,Gary Dekow

Engineering Operator Run Comment
RF Conditioning; SL: Wukitch; PO: Granetz; EO: Dekow/Parkin

Session Leader Plans

Physics Operators Plans

Session Leader Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 03:49:29:413PM
Author: To Be Determined
Engineering setup for Wednesday 17 July 2002

Session leader: S. Wukitch
Physics operator: R. Granetz

ECDC overnight in D2 at 2e-4 Torr, stopping by 07:00.
Set up for possible ECDC in D2 between shots.

Run begins at 09:00 and ends at 17:00.

Power systems the same as for shot 1020716015.

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 10 psi D2 Hybrid DISABLED (PG2) (for ECDC)
fill C-side with 30 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3)
leave J-Bottom as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG5)

Enable the following gate valves, assuming no vacuum problems:
ECE

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RF Setup: All 4 transmitters in Run On by 07:00.

Purpose:

Plasma conditioning of antennas

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001 plasma attempt after morning of RF vacuum conditioning

request:lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.9-1.2]sec
J3: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
J4: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
digital phase is set to 225deg

result: fizzle

002

request:lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.9-1.2]sec
J3: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
J4: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
digital phase is set to 225deg

result: dud

003

request:lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.9-1.2]sec
J3: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
J4: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
digital phase is set to 225deg
result: plasma
D: faulting but well matched
E: faulting but well matched
J: faulting but ran for short period

action: retune

004

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.9-1.2]sec
J3: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
J4: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
digital phase is set to 225deg

result: plasma
D: faulting but well matched
E: faulting but well matched
J: faulting but ran for short period

action: retune
reset J phase balance to 2 V from 1.140 V
raised D-port phase balance threshold to 8700 from 8635 mV

005

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.9-1.2]sec
J3: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
J4: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-0.9]sec
digital phase is set to 225deg

result: plasma
J was better
more stuff appears not to be working than one can manage

action: turn off D and J

006

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: still faulting but tune is good

007

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: best shot yet
E: ramped to ~ 250 kW before faulting

action: raise ramp to 300 kW
start D-port again with phase balance threshold raised to 9000 V

008

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: plasma
D: faulted
E: faulted after reaching voltage limit (appears to be erroneous)

action: add 10 dB to all E voltage probes

009

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.3 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: plasma
D: faulted
E: ramped to 300 kW as requested

action: lowered voltage limit to 7700 mV (E-port)
retuned D-port

010

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.3 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec
result: plasma
D: faulted
E: ramped to 300 kW as requested
perhaps the voltage limit fault protection works

action: raise voltage limit value to 8300 mV


011

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.3 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: fizzle

012

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.5 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: plasma
D: faulted
E: faulted - voltage limits

action: return voltage limit value to 7700 mV

013

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.5 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: plasma
D: faulted
E: ramped to 500 kW as requested

014

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.1 - 0.7 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: plasma
D: faulted
E: ramped to 700 kW as requested

015

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2
D: 0.1 - 0.2 MW ramp @[1.2-1.5]sec
E: 0.5 - 0.8 MW ramp @[0.6-1.2]sec

result: plasma
D: faulted
E: ramped to set voltage limit

Summary:

Vacuum conditioning proceeded slowly previous to the run. After
reaching 35 kV on all systems (although not clear of faults), we began
plasma discharges. Plasma conditioning progressed even slower than
vacuum conditioning. The improvement in the phase detection has
resulted in much better tuning capability. Unlike previous campaigns,
the system can be tuned in a single discharge.

We found that we had to turn off D and J-port antennas to focus on
E-port which was working much better than either D or J into plasma.
We isolated a problem with the E-port antenna voltage protection
circuit. When the trip value is above 7700 mV, the system seems to
fault although the measured value is well below (see 011-015). D-port
appears to be have particularly odd behavior that will take some time
to sort out. J-port performance is also puzzling. This will take
some time to sort out.

Physics Operator Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 04:37:15:350PM
Author: To Be Determined
Physics operator summary for run 1020717 (Wednesday):

Session leader: S. Wukitch
Physics operator: R. Granetz
Engineer in charge: G. Dekow, W. Parkin

Summary: The entire morning was devoted to RF conditioning into vacuum, rather
than tokamak operation. Once we began plasma operation, the machine
ran very reliably from shot 3 onward, especially considering the
recent boronization. The E-antenna was working well, with power
up to 0.5+ MW in very clean pulses lasting up to 0.6 second long.
D-antenna was also being exercised in very short pulses, and
the J-antenna was only used on shot 5. H/D stayed around 3.5-4.0%
for all shots. We could see some hints of heating on various
signals. There were no disruptions today.

Scorecard: 12 plasmas
2 fizzles
1 dud
0 tests
0 aborted and/or screwed up by computer problems
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15 total

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Engineering setup for Wednesday 17 July 2002

Session leader: S. Wukitch
Physics operator: R. Granetz

ECDC overnight in D2 at 2e-4 Torr, stopping by 07:00.
Set up for possible ECDC in D2 between shots.

Run begins at 09:00 and ends at 17:00.

Power systems the same as for shot 1020716015.

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 10 psi D2 Hybrid DISABLED (PG2) (for ECDC)
fill C-side with 30 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3)
leave J-Bottom as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG5)

Enable the following gate valves, assuming no vacuum problems:
ECE

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RF Setup: All 4 transmitters in Run On by 07:00.

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Run Plan:

Work on D, E, and J systems into plasma.

Start by loading shot 1020716015 (standard SNL, 0.8 MA, 5.3 T, 1.e20 m-2) or a
similar one from later in Tuesday's run, and let the RF go at it.

Note:
The RF will be firing into vacuum before the run begins, so we will want to
do 10 minutes of ECDC just before the first shot. If the H/D begins to rise
during the run, we will want to do between-shot ECDC as well.

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Overnight ECDC in D2 was done.

Hybrid coldstart done; no errors found

Loaded PCS from shot 1020716015 for all segments.

Do 10 minutes of ECDC prior to the first shot, since the RF was firing
into vacuum prior to the run.

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Steve Wukitch now says the RF will be ready at noon. We'll do 10 minutes of
ECDC at that time, so the first plasma shot should be 12:15-12:20.

Shot 01 -- Fizzle. Fields look okay, pressure is a bit high.

Next shot: reduce pre-fill pulse by 3 ms.

Shot 02 -- Dud. Pre-fill pressure is now down to 0.058 mtorr. I guess I'll
have to add some back.

Next shot: increase pre-fill by 2 ms, so that it will now be
just 1 ms less than for the first shot.

Shot 03 -- Plasma. Good shot. 0.8 MA, 5.3 T, SNL, nl_04=1.0e20 m-2

Next shot: no PCS changes

Shot 04 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5% for the entire shot. No significant
RF power.

Next shot: no PCS changes

Shot 05 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5-4.0% Prf_D=0.1 MW in multiple short
pulses. Prf_E=0.1-0.2 MW in multiple short pulses. Prf_J=0.1 MW.

Jim Irby points out that the small variations in H/D during
the shot are correlated with J-port power.

Next shot: no PCS changes

Shot 06 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5%, so still don't need to do ECDC
between shots yet. The NINJA system is puffing D2 from the
inboard midplane. Prf_E=0.1 MW in short pulses.

Next shot: no PCS changes

Shot 07 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5%. Prf_E=0.1-0.2 MW for an 0.5 second-
long ramped pulse. Tuning on E is looking real good!

Next shot: no PCS changes

Shot 08 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.6% Prf_D=0.1 MW in many short pulses.
Prf_E=0.1-0.2 MW.

Next shot: no PCS changes

Shot 09 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.9% Prf_D=0.1 MW in many short pulses.
Prf_E=0.1-0.3 MW in a beautiful 0.6 second long ramped pulse.
If things continue like this, I will start between-shot ECDC after
the next plasma.

Next shot: no PCS changes

Shot 10 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=4.0% ... start between-shot ECDC.
RF is identical to last shot. E-antenna really looks great.

Next shot: no PCS changes. I hope the ECDC doesn't reduce the
startup reliability.

ECDC is now on between shots for 7.5 minutes.

Shot 11 -- Fizzle. Pre-fill pressure is slightly higher, no doubt because
of the ECDC. But will it drop back down on its own for the
next (post-fizzle) shot?

Next shot: let's try not making any changes...it's really
tempting though.

Shot 12 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.2% . Prf_D=0.1 MW in many short pulses.

Next shot: no changes. (No ECDC needed at this time.)

Shot 13 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.8%. Prf_E=0.1-0.4 MW in a clean ramp
of 0.6 s duration.

Next shot: no PCS changes, no ECDC.

Shot 14 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.6% Prf_E=0.1-0.5 MW in a clean ramp of
0.6 s duration. Pre-fill pressure was a touch high.

Next shot: decrease pre-fill pulse by 0.5 ms (by moving just the
top point, not the bottom one).

Shot 15 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=4.1%. Prf_E=0.4-0.6+ MW, but with
multiple faults.

End of run.

Session Leader Comments
Jul 17 2002 12:29:29:923PM1020717001Steve Wukitch001 plasma attempt after morning of RF vacuum conditioning

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2

result: fizzle
Jul 17 2002 12:36:59:640PM1020717002Steve Wukitch002

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2

result: dud
Jul 17 2002 01:23:15:473PM1020717003Steve Wukitch003

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2

result: plasma
Jul 17 2002 01:22:22:613PM1020717004Steve Wukitch004

request: lower SN Ip~0.8 MA, BT~5.4 T, nl_04~1x10^20 m^-2

result: plasma

Physics Operator Comments
Jul 17 2002 08:40:38:417AMRobert GranetzEngineering setup for Wednesday 17 July 2002

Session leader: S. Wukitch
Physics operator: R. Granetz

ECDC overnight in D2 at 2e-4 Torr, stopping by 07:00.
Set up for possible ECDC in D2 between shots.

Run begins at 09:00 and ends at 17:00.

Power systems the same as for shot 1020716015.

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 10 psi D2 Hybrid DISABLED (PG2) (for ECDC)
fill C-side with 30 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3)
leave J-Bottom as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG5)

Enable the following gate valves, assuming no vacuum problems:
ECE

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RF Setup: All 4 transmitters in Run On by 07:00.
Jul 17 2002 08:40:53:980AMRobert GranetzRun Plan:

Work on D, E, and J systems into plasma.

Start by loading shot 1020716015 (standard SNL, 0.8 MA, 5.3 T, 1.e20 m-2) or a
similar one from later in Tuesday's run, and let the RF go at it.

Note:
The RF will be firing into vacuum before the run begins, so we will want to
do 10 minutes of ECDC just before the first shot. If the H/D begins to rise
during the run, we will want to do between-shot ECDC as well.
Jul 17 2002 08:41:09:280AMRobert Granetz Overnight ECDC in D2 was done.

Hybrid coldstart done; no errors found

Loaded PCS from shot 1020716015 for all segments.

Do 10 minutes of ECDC prior to the first shot, since the RF was firing
into vacuum prior to the run.
Jul 17 2002 11:18:41:833AMRobert GranetzSteve Wukitch now says the RF will be ready at noon. We'll do 10 minutes of
ECDC at that time, so the first plasma shot should be 12:15-12:20.
Jul 17 2002 12:27:18:967PM1020717001Robert GranetzShot 01 -- Fizzle. Fields look okay, pressure is a bit high.

Next shot: reduce pre-fill pulse by 3 ms.
Jul 17 2002 12:42:25:507PM1020717002Robert GranetzShot 02 -- Dud. Pre-fill pressure is now down to 0.058 mtorr. I guess I'll
have to add some back.

Next shot: increase pre-fill by 2 ms, so that it will now be
just 1 ms less than for the first shot.
Jul 17 2002 01:12:10:770PM1020717003Robert GranetzShot 03 -- Plasma. Good shot. 0.8 MA, 5.3 T, SNL, nl_04=1.0e20 m-2

Next shot: no PCS changes
Jul 17 2002 01:28:22:937PM1020717004Robert GranetzShot 04 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5% for the entire shot. No significant
RF power.

Next shot: no PCS changes
Jul 17 2002 02:01:08:987PM1020717005Robert GranetzShot 05 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5-4.0% Prf_D=0.1 MW in multiple
short pulses. Prf_E=0.1-0.2 MW in multple short pulses.
Prf_J=0.1 MW.

Jim Irby points out that the small variations in H/D during
the shot are correlated with J-port power.

Next shot: no PCS changes
Jul 17 2002 02:24:25:330PM1020717006Robert GranetzShot 06 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5%, so still don't need to do ECDC
between shots yet. The NINJA system is puffing D2 from the
inboard midplane. Prf_E=0.1 MW in short pulses.

Next shot: no PCS changes
Jul 17 2002 02:34:31:533PM1020717007Robert GranetzShot 07 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.5%. Prf_E=0.1-0.2 MW for an 0.5 second-
long ramped pulse. Tuning on E is looking real good!

Next shot: no PCS changes
Jul 17 2002 03:08:48:303PM1020717008Robert GranetzShot 08 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.6% Prf_D=0.1 MW in many short pulses.
Prf_E=0.1-0.2 MW.

Next shot: no PCS changes
Jul 17 2002 03:24:57:720PM1020717009Robert GranetzShot 09 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.9% Prf_D=0.1 MW in many short pulses.
Prf_E=0.1-0.3 MW in a beautiful 0.6 second long ramped pulse.
If things continue like this, I will start between-shot ECDC after
the next plasma.

Next shot: no PCS changes
Jul 17 2002 03:48:08:910PM1020717010Robert GranetzShot 10 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=4.0% ... start between-shot ECDC.
RF is identical to last shot. E-antenna really looks great.

Next shot: no PCS changes. I hope the ECDC doesn't reduce the
startup reliability.

ECDC is now on between shots for 7.5 minutes.
Jul 17 2002 04:04:52:907PM1020717011Robert GranetzShot 11 -- Fizzle. Pre-fill pressure is slightly higher, no doubt because
of the ECDC. But will it drop back down on its own for the
next (post-fizzle) shot?

Next shot: let's try not making any changes...it's really
tempting though.
Jul 17 2002 04:22:54:590PM1020717012Robert GranetzShot 12 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.2% . Prf_D=0.1 MW in many short pulses.

Next shot: no changes. (No ECDC needed at this time.)
Jul 17 2002 04:36:51:627PM1020717013Robert GranetzShot 13 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.8%. Prf_E=0.1-0.4 MW in a clean ramp
of 0.6 s duration.

Next shot: no PCS changes, no ECDC.
Jul 17 2002 04:53:55:480PM1020717014Robert GranetzShot 14 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=3.6% Prf_E=0.1-0.5 MW in a clean ramp of
0.6 s duration. Pre-fill pressure was a touch high.

Next shot: decrease pre-fill pulse by 0.5 ms (by moving just the
top point, not the bottom one).
Jul 17 2002 05:04:43:373PM1020717015Robert GranetzShot 15 -- Plasma. Good shot. H/D=4.1%. Prf_E=0.4-0.6+ MW, but with
multiple faults.

End of run.

Engineering Operator Comments
ShotTimeTypeStatusComment
112:20:21:893PMPlasmaOk
212:34:32:213PMPlasmaOk
312:51:09:550PMPlasmaOk
401:14:59:573PMPlasmaOk
501:43:01:160PMPlasmaOk
602:05:22:800PMPlasmaOk
702:23:05:593PMPlasmaOk
802:43:29:060PMPlasmaOk
903:11:45:920PMPlasmaOk
1003:32:49:467PMPlasmaOk
1103:57:30:160PMPlasmaOk
1204:10:43:010PMPlasmaOk
1304:29:03:567PMPlasmaOk
1404:42:11:433PMPlasmaOk
1504:57:04:813PMPlasmaOk