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| Operators | |
| Session leader(s): | Greg Wallace |
| Physics operator(s): | |
| Engineering operator(s): | Andy Pfeiffer,Gary Dekow,Ed Fitzgerald |
| Engineering Operator Run Comment |
| MP: 605 LH2 Lower Hybrid Launcher Checkout and Conditioning Session Lead |
| Session Leader Plans |
| Entered: Jan 26 2012 05:03:01:953PM |
| Author: Greg Wallace |
| Session leader plan for 1120127
Session Leader: G. Wallace Physics Operator: R. Granetz MP: 605 LH2 Lower Hybrid Launcher Checkout and Conditioning LH Setup: Launcher ~3 mm behind GH limiter (1290 counts on PLC); 90 degree current-drive phasing; 200-1000 kW net power (~70-200 kW/klystron); LH on from 0.7 to 1.2s. Reference shot: 1120119017. Shot Plan: 1) Begin with co-current 90 degree ideal phasing. Set power level to 70 kW/klystron (half on direct fed columns). Set pulse length to 0.1 s. 2) Increase pulse length to 0.5 s. 3) Increase power in increments of 10-20 kW/klystron. Pay particular attention to LH camera view. If arcing occurs, reduce power by 50% and begin raising power again. 4) Adjust plasma or launcher position if breakdown on grill mouth does not improve. 5) Lather, rinse, and repeat as necessary. |
| Physics Operators Plans |
| Entered: Jan 26 2012 04:20:09:227PM |
| Author: Robert Granetz |
Engineering setup for Friday 2012/01/27
MP605 - LH2 Lower Hybrid Launcher and Conditioning
Session leaders: S. Shiraiwa, G. Wallace
Physics operator: R. Granetz
Overnight: normal ECDC in D2 and 60 C bake.
Run will start at 09:00 and end at 17:00
Power systems as on: 1120119017 (0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.3e20 m-2, LSN)
A-coil configuration: +Dtop -Dbot -Jtop +Jbot; Hybrid enabled (standard
configuration)
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)
fill H-bottom with 15 psi D2 Hybrid DISABLED (PG5)
leave B-div as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG6)
leave H-div as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG7)
leave NINJA as is DISABLED
Enable the following gate valves and shutters, assuming no vacuum problems:
ECE, VUV, Z-bolo, HIREX-Sr, B-spectrometer GV, Xeus, LoWEUS
Torvac setup: keep gate valves open during pulse
Specific diagnostics: TS, ECE, TCI
Desirable diagnostics: DNB, MSE
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Boronization: no
Overnight ECDC: yes, D2
Impurity injector: no
ICRF: not needed, but not precluded either
LH: yes
DNB: desirable (for MSE)
Cryopump: no
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Run plan: Start from shot 11201190xx from last Thursday's LH run (0.7 MA,
5.4 T, 0.3e20 m-2, LSN). The goal is to increase the LH power
to 0.5 MW or higher.
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| Session Leader Summaries |
| Entered: Jan 27 2012 05:14:59:810PM |
| Author: Greg Wallace |
| SL Summary for 1120127
Today's run was dedicated to increasing the LH power to the plasma. The run was quite successful despite an air leak and data system problems in the afternoon. We increased net power up to nearly 750 kW on shot 23. There were a few breakdown events on the LH grill, mostly on the B row. Seems to be in the same places as in the last campaign. Repeating shots or slightly reducing power helped on subsequent shots. In the morning we were running lower null plasmas, but after a few shots Matt noticed a bunch of fluorine in the plasma, probably coming from his Lyman diagnostic cables. Switching to upper null fixed the problem. Speculation is that a cable came loose and is sticking in near the plasma. Most of the day was spent at Ip=700 kA. We dropped to 500 kA at the end of the day to try for a bigger loop voltage drop for Ron. On shot 26 we reached -0.2 V transiently, but many CPS faults kept the pulse length short. Not bad for the first day of high power conditioning. |
| Physics Operator Summaries |
| Entered: Jan 27 2012 05:02:21:333PM |
| Author: Robert Granetz |
Run summary for Friday 2012/01/27
MP605 - LH2 Lower Hybrid Launcher and Conditioning
Session leaders: G. Wallace
Physics operator: R. Granetz
Excellent progress was made on increasing the lower hybrid power,
eventually getting up to 0.73 MW for 0.5 s pulses. The LH was running very
well, with almost no faulting. The tokamak ran well too, as did the DNB.
We did have some annoying problems with computer hangs, particularly around
shots 20 and 21. There was also a brief air leak after shot 18. It was
found to be from the H-port seal, so that was pumped out. Matt Reinke
noticed an increasing amount of fluorine early in the run, which prompted
us to switch to upper null plasmas. The fluorine is probably from Teflon
insulation on signal cables of one of the bolometry arrays. The signal
conduit may have come loose. Finally, the Thomson system now is working
quite well.
Scorecard: 26 plasmas
0 duds
0 fizzles
0 power supply tests
1 no-power MDSplus cycle tests
0 no-power gas test
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Total: 27 shot cycles (shot 20 occurred twice, so the last shot number
is 26)
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| Session Leader Comments | |||
| Jan 27 2012 09:35:27:587AM | 1120127001 | Greg Wallace | Unable to switch klystrons 9-10 into launcher position. Pat found a blown fuse in IDC dummy load switch solenoid. 1A, 250V fuse. Working now.
Disruption at 0.2 s due to runaways. No LH. Try again. |
| Jan 27 2012 09:50:58:770AM | 1120127002 | Greg Wallace | Reflection coefficient a bit high, especially early in the LH pulse. Moving launcher in from 1290 to 1285. Launcher position recorded in tree is incorrect and should be ignored.
Next shot will set nl_04 programming to 0.4e20. Some signs of current drive even at 200 kW net power. Increase LH pulse length to 0.25 s for next shot. |
| Jan 27 2012 09:57:55:763AM | 1120127003 | Greg Wallace | Disruption at 0.29 s. |
| Jan 27 2012 10:23:22:483AM | 1120127004 | Greg Wallace | Clean LH pulse. LH camera view is occluded on bottom row. JT in the cell to fix it. LH launcher now reading 3mm behind GH limiter in tree.
Reflection coefficient drops from 60 to 20 % during the pulse! Density on LH probes rises from near cutoff to about 4x cutoff during pulse. nebar is constant after 0.75 s but probe density continues to rise. Increase pulse length to 0.5 s for next shot. |
| Jan 27 2012 10:51:46:553AM | 1120127005 | Greg Wallace | Another good shot. Reflection coefficient decreases from 60% to 10% during shot! Up to 275 kW at end of pulse. Strange bright spot on grill at 0.45 s during crossover.
Next shot will move LH pulse start time to 0.8 s to see if density increases a little by the beginning of the pulse. |
| Jan 27 2012 10:54:45:047AM | 1120127006 | Greg Wallace | Another good LH pulse. No bright spot on grill. Refco decreases for first half of shot then is amazingly flat later in the pulse.
Increase power to 85 kW/klystron (max at 40 kV) for next shot. |
| Jan 27 2012 11:12:31:493AM | 1120127007 | Greg Wallace | Clean LH pulse at 85 kW/klystron. Net power of up to 320 kW/klystron. Reflection coefficient didn't drop below 15% on this shot.
Increase power to 100 kW/klystron for the next shot. |
| Jan 27 2012 11:28:08:040AM | 1120127008 | Greg Wallace | COTS fault on A2V1 at 1.214 s.
Increase COTS multiplier from 0.2 to 0.28 for next shot. Repeat. |
| Jan 27 2012 12:54:00:703PM | 1120127009 | Greg Wallace | Clean LH pulse with no COTS or CPS faults. Reflection coeff keeps rising shot by shot? Matt reports increase in F in plasma, probably from teflon heating up somewhere in the vessel. Camera looks OK.
Next shot will increase to 115 kW/klystron. Will have to be careful with the teflon... |
| Jan 27 2012 11:58:30:387AM | 1120127010 | Greg Wallace | Fe injection from the grill at 1.05 s. Clearly visible on LH camera. No CPS faults. Might have been caught by rate based CPS fault protection if enabled.
Reduce back to 100 kW/klystron for next shot. |
| Jan 27 2012 12:13:44:160PM | 1120127011 | Greg Wallace | No injection from LH launcher at 100 kW/klystron.
Matt says that his bolo box is going haywire during LH pulse. Might be the source of teflon in the plasma. Next shot will be into dummy load to see if teflon source goes away. Will enable rate based CPS fault protection for next shot. 50% change in 15us will trigger a fault. |
| Jan 27 2012 12:54:11:233PM | 1120127012 | Greg Wallace | LH into dummy loads. Ledge Ly diagnostic still having problems but F level did not increase.
Next shot will go back into plasma for LH. |
| Jan 27 2012 12:51:17:147PM | 1120127014 | Greg Wallace | Clean LH pulse with rate fault protection enabled. Good current drive with consistent reflection coefficient around 20%. About 400 kW net power. LH camera looks clean.
Increase to 115 kW/klystron on the next shot. Power ramps at beginning and end of the pulse. |
| Jan 27 2012 01:10:23:987PM | 1120127015 | Greg Wallace | A few faults at the very beginning due to rate faults. Cleared up and ran clean for the rest of the pulse. Camera looks OK.
Increase rate fault % to 70 and decrease fault time to 10us. Next shot will also increase to 130 kW/klystron. |
| Jan 27 2012 01:21:13:413PM | 1120127016 | Greg Wallace | Good shot. Reflections stay pretty constant around 20%.
Next shot will go up to 145 kW/klystron. |
| Jan 27 2012 01:38:02:333PM | 1120127017 | Greg Wallace | Bright spot in middle of grill at 1.088 s on LH camera. Can see a divot on net power at the same time. Reflected power spikes again twice later in shot but can't see on camera. 600 kW net power.
Repeat same power level for next shot. Increase rate time to 30 us. |
| Jan 27 2012 02:03:00:440PM | 1120127018 | Greg Wallace | LH pulse looks good. Still have a nuisance rate fault at beginning.
Increase to 160 kW/klystron for next shot. Air leak. after shot. Long delay.... |
| Jan 27 2012 02:50:30:980PM | 1120127019 | Greg Wallace | ACS PXI system froze. No forward power. CPS faults due to undefined reflection coefficient. Will try again at 160 kW/klystron. |
| Jan 27 2012 03:13:47:723PM | 1120127020 | Greg Wallace | No power shot. |
| Jan 27 2012 04:09:14:270PM | 1120127021 | Greg Wallace | HV enable fault. No LH. |
| Jan 27 2012 04:21:05:617PM | 1120127022 | Greg Wallace | One CPS fault early, then clean LH pulse for the rest of the shot. Increase to 175 kW/klystron for next shot. |
| Jan 27 2012 04:28:40:853PM | 1120127023 | Greg Wallace | Some faint glowing from 15/16/dummy septa on LH camera. 3 faults early and 1 late. The final fault looks like a real "event" that needed to be cleared.
Will try again at this power level. |
| Jan 27 2012 04:42:30:773PM | 1120127024 | Greg Wallace | Some breakdown across B row of launcher at 1.263 s. Reflection coefficients continue to rise.
Next shot will decrease Ip to 500 kA so Ron can see some non-inductive operation. |
| Jan 27 2012 04:57:59:013PM | 1120127025 | Greg Wallace | Clean LH pulse at 175 kW/klystron, 675 kW net pow. Sawteeth are suppressed by the LH at 500 kA.
Next shot will decrease nl_04 demand to 0.3e20. Increase to 190 kW/klystron but keep A1V3 at 175. |
| Jan 27 2012 05:07:44:217PM | 1120127026 | Greg Wallace | Several CPS faults. Reflections are higher overall. Only about 750 kW net power.
Loop voltage transiently reached -0.2 V. Ron will need to wait for next week to try again. Last shot of the day. |
| Physics Operator Comments | |||
| Jan 27 2012 08:56:23:370AM | 1120127001 | Robert Granetz | I removed the waggle that had previously been programmed on the plasma current (for exercising the polarimetry diagnostic last week) prior to the start of the run. |
| Jan 27 2012 09:33:40:613AM | 1120127001 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 01 -- Plasma, but the startup had a lot of runaways, and DPCS shut it down at 0.21 s. The
initial startup looked okay, but something may have fallen in around 25 ms.
Next shot: increase pre-fill by 4 ms
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| Jan 27 2012 09:47:33:890AM | 1120127002 | Robert Granetz | Shot 02 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, LSN. LH fired, DNB fired. Good startup. Next shot: decrease nl_04 programming to 0.4e20 m-2 (from 0.5e20 m-2) |
| Jan 27 2012 09:57:44:243AM | 1120127003 | Robert Granetz | Shot 03 -- Plasma, but disrupted at t=0.30 s. Looks like an injection. Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 10:20:21:627AM | 1120127004 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 04 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.3-0.4e20 m-2, LSN, LH, DNB
Next shot: enable argon (B-side-lower), 70 ms at t=0.3 s. NINJA will be enabled
with D2 for tests late in the shot, at the request of Mike Churchill.
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| Jan 27 2012 10:31:11:580AM | 1120127005 | Robert Granetz | Shot 05 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.35e20 m-2, LSN, LH at 250 kW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 10:53:21:403AM | 1120127006 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 06 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.35e20 m-2, LSN, P_LH = 0.2-0.25 MW for 0.5 s, DNB
Thomson data is looking good now.
Next shot: no DPCS changes
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| Jan 27 2012 11:24:52:613AM | 1120127007 | Robert Granetz | Shot 07 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.35e20 m-2, LSN, P_LH=0.3 MW for 0.5 s, DNB (7 amps). Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 11:27:23:470AM | 1120127008 | Robert Granetz | Shot 08 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.35e20 m-2, LSN, P_LH=0.35 MW for 0.42 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 11:44:21:550AM | 1120127009 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 09 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, LSN, P_LH=0.4 MW for 0.5 s, DNB
Next shot: at Steve Wolfe's suggestion, I have reduced the IC_EF4 to +1500 A (from
2500 A) during the plasma in order to avoid railing EF2L at zero.
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| Jan 27 2012 11:49:39:860AM | 1120127010 | Robert Granetz | Shot 10 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, LSN, P_LH=0.45 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 12:05:38:007PM | 1120127011 | Robert Granetz | Shot 11 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, LSN, P_LH=0.4 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 12:16:57:060PM | 1120127012 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 12 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, LSN, LH was purposely disabled to
check if some bolo signal cables are overheating due to LH.
Next shot: no DPCS changes; re-enable LH
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| Jan 27 2012 12:39:21:137PM | 1120127013 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 13 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, LSN, P_LH = 0.4 MW for 0.5 s, DNB
Next shot: change to USN by loading seg 3 from seg 3 of 1120104018; reduce Ip to 0.7 MA and
nl_04 to 0.4e20 m-2
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| Jan 27 2012 12:47:17:437PM | 1120127014 | Robert Granetz | Shot 14 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, ** USN **, P_LH = 0.39 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 01:03:44:070PM | 1120127015 | Robert Granetz | Shot 15 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.46 MW for 0.4 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 01:18:50:783PM | 1120127016 | Robert Granetz | Shot 16 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.53 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 01:38:03:620PM | 1120127017 | Robert Granetz | Shot 17 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.6 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 01:47:53:600PM | 1120127018 | Robert Granetz | Shot 18 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.6 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 02:27:29:450PM | 1120127018 | Robert Granetz | Shot 18 -- After the shot an air leak opened up. We're trying to figure it out now. |
| Jan 27 2012 03:26:33:743PM | 1120127019 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 19 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, DNB
LH had a computer problem that prevented them from running.
Next shot: no DPCS changes
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| Jan 27 2012 03:15:03:760PM | 1120127020 | Robert Granetz | Shot 20 -- no-power shot because the C-Mod cycle software got hung up for a long time. Next shot: go for shot 20 again, this time with plasma |
| Jan 27 2012 03:44:26:497PM | 1120127020 | Robert Granetz | Shot 20 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN. ALCDAQ3 crashed just after the shot, so most of the data is not showing up. Some of the data seems to be disappearing! Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 03:56:07:150PM | 1120127021 | Robert Granetz |
Shot 21 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN. No LH nor DNB, presumably because
of computer problems.
Next shot: no DPCS changes
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| Jan 27 2012 04:09:38:877PM | 1120127022 | Robert Granetz | Shot 22 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.65 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 04:23:04:050PM | 1120127023 | Robert Granetz | Shot 23 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.71 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: no DPCS changes |
| Jan 27 2012 04:38:51:710PM | 1120127024 | Robert Granetz | Shot 24 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.7 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.73 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: reduce Ip to 0.5 MA (seg 3) |
| Jan 27 2012 04:49:40:653PM | 1120127025 | Robert Granetz | Shot 25 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.5 MA, 5.4 T, 0.4e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.67 MW for 0.5 s, DNB Next shot: reduce nl_04 to 0.3e20 m-2 |
| Jan 27 2012 05:03:41:687PM | 1120127026 | Robert Granetz | Shot 26 -- Plasma, good shot. 0.5 MA, 5.4 T, 0.33e20 m-2, USN, P_LH = 0.7 MW w/lots of faulting, DNB End of run |
| Engineering Operator Comments | ||||
| Shot | Time | Type | Status | Comment |
| 1 | 09:27:00:103AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 2 | 09:39:42:217AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 3 | 09:53:33:917AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 4 | 10:06:21:397AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 5 | 10:23:23:767AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 6 | 10:41:21:903AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 7 | 11:00:01:107AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 8 | 11:13:06:210AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 9 | 11:30:34:060AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 10 | 11:44:06:387AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 11 | 11:58:05:043AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 12 | 12:11:20:983PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 13 | 12:24:13:000PM | Test | Bad | |
| 14 | 12:41:33:143PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 15 | 12:55:16:527PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 16 | 01:11:51:450PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 17 | 01:25:46:227PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 18 | 01:38:35:250PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 19 | 02:42:00:827PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 20 | 02:58:15:583PM | Test | Bad | |
| 21 | 03:42:17:337PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 22 | 04:04:41:483PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 23 | 04:17:36:533PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 24 | 04:30:46:953PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 25 | 04:44:37:970PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 26 | 04:57:59:357PM | Plasma | Ok | |
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