| Miniproposals |
| Operators | |
| Session leader(s): | |
| Physics operator(s): | Bill Rowan |
| Engineering operator(s): | Sam Pierson,Bill Cochran,Gary Dekow |
| Engineering Operator Run Comment |
| MP 298A, C-Mod Plasma Startup, PO: Rowan, SL: , EO: Pierson |
| Session Leader Plans |
| Physics Operators Plans |
| Entered: Jul 6 2009 05:44:17:770PM |
| Author: Bill Rowan |
| Engineering Setup and Physop Plan for Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 1090707
----------------- Purpose ----------------- MP 298A, C-Mod Plasma Startup PhysOp: Rowan SL: TBD ----------------- Engineering Setup ----------------- Run begins at 09:00 and ends at 17:00 Power systems as on: 1090701027 Acoil: +Dtop -Dbot -Jtop +Jbot (standard) Hybrid Enabled Gas setup: Fill B-Top with 6 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG4) fill B-side lower with 1 psi Ar Hybrid DISABLED (PG1) leave B-side upper as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG2) fill B-main (C-side) with 40 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3) leave NINJA as is DISABLED Enable gatevalves and shutters: ECE, Z-bolo Torvac gatevalve toggle (yes/no): no Boronization(yes/no): no Overnight ECDC (yes/no): yes ICRF(yes/no): yes, when ICRF operator asks for it LH(yes/no): no DNB(yes/no): yes Cryopump (yes/no): no Vessel temperature: 35/35/35 ------------------------------ ECDC Parameters ------------------------------ gas and pressure: D2 at 2e-4 Torr sweep: 44/45/103 cm scan: 20/120 s Vessel temp overnight 60/60/60 if possible ------------------------------ PO Plan ------------------------------ Load DPCS from 1090701027 (900ka, LSN); make sure dpcs_fizzle routine is turned on. Recalculate predictors. The emphasis is on bringing up divertor heat diagnostics, A scanning probe, DNB, and HIREX During this run it is very likely that there will be a number of cell accesses required to debug diagnostics. These have priority over plasma operation during this run. |
| Session Leader Summaries |
| Physics Operator Summaries |
| Entered: Jul 8 2009 08:20:12:800AM |
| Author: Bill Rowan |
| This run included shots for clean-up and for diagnostic development. Note that Martin reported very high triangularity in the later shots compared to earlier ones.
C-Mod ran well throughout the day. Some gas changes were made early in the day, but there were no magnetics changes required until late in the day. Diagnostic developement: There was frequent cell access for diagnostics. Ar was setup for hirex. The ratiomatic pressures seem to be reading low. The pressure increment with increase in PG4 pulse length is approximately a factor of two lower than expected. The pressures were lower than expected (compare 1090701) for a given PG4 pulse length. There was a fault on shot 016. A fault generated by the OH force detection system caused a TF fault. An offset and noise in the force detection system generated this spurious fault. Only the offset could be corrected prior to the next shot. (see Gary's comment under Power Systems for shot 016) On shot 017, the ZXU proportional gain step at 0.3 s was apparently causing a thrash on EF1U (see Steve's comment on shot 018). On 017 and 018, the proportional gain was removed and then moved later. There were no changes in the DPCS settings for several shots prior to this problem appearing. Score Card 20 plasmas (4 disruptions before 0.5 s, 001,008,016,017 0 fizzles 0 dud ---------- 20 total |
| Session Leader Comments |
| Physics Operator Comments | |||
| Jul 7 2009 08:36:52:797AM | Bill Rowan | Load from 1090701027
dpcs_fizzle routine is turned on predictors recalculated | |
| Jul 7 2009 09:16:27:813AM | 1090707001 | Bill Rowan | 001. Plasma
Disruption at 0.342 Next shot. No DPCS changes |
| Jul 7 2009 09:31:47:080AM | 1090707002 | Bill Rowan | 002. Plasma.
Mostly through ramp down 1.9 s Early hard x-rays Pressure is low on this shot and on 001 Cell access: TS and zap f14 |
| Jul 7 2009 10:41:51:610AM | 1090707003 | Bill Rowan | 003.
Increase puff from 10 ms to 12 ms BR_0 offset reset from 0.0 to 0.001 Delay for PLC repair Enable PG1 for argon puff for hirex. 25 ms puff. Plasma through ramp down. Pressure increased from 0.01 (shot 002) to 0.013 mT BR_0 at breakdown increased from -0.001 to approx 0.0 |
| Jul 7 2009 10:53:36:813AM | 1090707004 | Bill Rowan | 004.
PG1 (b-side lower) increased from 25 ms to 50 ms John says that the valve does not open when set as low as 25 ms Increase puff from 12 ms to 15 ms Plasma through ramp down Pressure increased to 0.02 mT |
| Jul 7 2009 11:00:04:143AM | 1090707005 | Bill Rowan | 005.
No DPCS changes Plasma through ramp down. |
| Jul 7 2009 11:40:13:643AM | 1090707006 | Bill Rowan | 006.
Increase pg1 from 15 ms to 17 ms Plasma Pressure increased to 0.24 mT at breakdown |
| Jul 7 2009 11:49:09:017AM | 1090707007 | Bill Rowan | 007.
No DPCS changes. Plasma through ramp down. |
| Jul 7 2009 12:17:14:377PM | 1090707008 | Bill Rowan | 008.
No DPCS changes Plasma but short. 0.45 s PF breaker pulled appears to be a spurious fault |
| Jul 7 2009 12:26:54:563PM | 1090707009 | Bill Rowan | 009.
No DPCS changes Plasma |
| Jul 7 2009 12:58:02:750PM | 1090707010 | Bill Rowan | 010.
No DPCS changes Plasma |
| Jul 7 2009 12:57:47:890PM | 1090707011 | Bill Rowan | 011.
No DPCS changes Plasma |
| Jul 7 2009 01:11:30:267PM | 1090707012 | Bill Rowan | 012.
No DPCS changes Plasma |
| Jul 7 2009 01:22:46:703PM | 1090707013 | Bill Rowan | 013
No DPCS changes Plasma |
| Jul 7 2009 01:35:16:860PM | 1090707014 | Bill Rowan | 014.
No DPCS changes Plasma |
| Jul 7 2009 01:49:20:703PM | 1090707015 | Bill Rowan | 015.
No DPCS changes Plasma |
| Jul 7 2009 03:25:18:343PM | 1090707016 | Bill Rowan | 016.
No DPCS changes Plasma. Disrupted at 0.315 EF3 breaker pulled type 1 tf fault type 2 dpcs fault replaced two tf fuses |
| Jul 7 2009 03:51:56:530PM | 1090707017 | Bill Rowan | 017.
No DPCS changes Plasma disrupted at 0.362 s EF3 breaker pulled again |
| Jul 7 2009 04:20:54:670PM | 1090707018 | Bill Rowan | 018,
changed the ZXU proportional gain to remove the increase at 0.3 s Plasma. Through ramp down. |
| Jul 7 2009 04:51:04:920PM | 1090707019 | Bill Rowan | 019.
changed the ZXU proportional gain. Increase from 2.0 to to 4 at 0.3 s zapped bp06_jk (cell access) Plasma through ramp down |
| Jul 7 2009 05:01:40:280PM | 1090707020 | Bill Rowan | 020.
zapped f14 (cell access) changed the ZXU proportional gain. Increase from 4.0 to to 6.0 at 0.5s Plasma. Through the ramp down. |
| Engineering Operator Comments | ||||
| Shot | Time | Type | Status | Comment |
| 1 | 08:59:55:330AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 2 | 09:17:21:457AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 3 | 10:24:38:440AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 4 | 10:37:24:343AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 5 | 10:57:21:423AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 6 | 11:29:59:517AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 7 | 11:42:56:813AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 8 | 11:55:47:737AM | Plasma | Bad | OH2 and EF1 Commutation Fault |
| 9 | 12:19:28:330PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 10 | 12:35:10:313PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 11 | 12:47:59:347PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 12 | 01:07:31:627PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 13 | 01:20:21:597PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 14 | 01:33:10:377PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 15 | 01:46:10:390PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 16 | 02:26:27:090PM | Plasma | Bad | All PF type 2 fault occurred |
| 17 | 03:32:13:110PM | Plasma | Bad | OH1 Self Powered Circuit Fired. Fault maybe results of the plasma disru |
| 18 | 04:18:41:890PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 19 | 04:46:03:810PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 20 | 04:58:48:687PM | Plasma | Ok | |
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