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| Operators | |
| Session leader(s): | Mike Churchill,Bob Mumgaard |
| Physics operator(s): | Jim Irby,Steve Wolfe,Steve Scott |
| Engineering operator(s): | Andy Pfeiffer,Sam Pierson,Ed Fitzgerald |
| Engineering Operator Run Comment |
| EDA H-modes and ELM-free H-modes as part of MP648 SL Churchill PO: Irby |
| Session Leader Plans |
| Entered: Jun 20 2012 03:37:47:407PM |
| Author: Mike Churchill |
| In-Out Boron Density Asymmetries and Total Impurity Flows
Run high collisionality EDA H-modes and ELM-free H-modes as part of MP648 (PART A), and low collisionality ELMy H-modes These shots will be diagnostically optimized for CXRS purposes, including: 1. D2 NINJA puffs from both plenums at the LFS and HFS 2. Tighter L-gap for better HFS view coverage (~6mm) 3. Potential L and R gap scan (fixed plasma volume) of 3mm over 200ms REQUIRED DIAGNOSTICS: edge CXRS, NINJA puffs, DNB, edge Thomson S^3 requested, do not insert till SL gives OK DNB timing: 50ms on/25ms off, start at 0.3s NINJA puffs: 0.9s and 1.3s Fill NINJA plenum with 11psi of D2 RUN PLAN ============================== PART 0: Boronization recovery (~4 shots) Maximum 4 shots. You get no more, C-Mod. PART 1: EDA H-modes (~9 shots). Reference shot: 1120614024. TO CHANGE: L-gap to ~6mm, different RF trace (see above) ICRF step up: 2.5MW from 0.6 to 1.2s, 4MW from 1.2 to 1.5s 1a. Ip=1.0 [MA], nl04=1.0e20 [m^-2] 1b. Ip=0.8 [MA], nl04=0.8e20 [m^-2] 1c. Ip=0.6 [MA], nl04=0.6e20 [m^-2] PART 2: ELM-free H-modes (~5 shots) One ICRF pulse, 3.5MW from 0.6 to 1.5s May try ICRF pulses to force start/stop of ELM-free H-mode 2a. Ip=1.0 [MA], nl04=0.8e20 [m^-2] 2b. Ip=0.8 [MA], nl04=0.6e20 [m^-2] Cell access to change edge Thomson views for JFT-2M shape Adjust NINJA plenum pressure to ~8psi PART 3: ELMy H-modes (~7 shots) Reference shot: 1101214029. TO CHANGE: decrease nl04 demand to compensate for presence of NINJA puffs. ICRF flat: 2.5MW from 0.6 to 1.5s 3a. Adjust reference shot nl04 demand until ELMy H-modes achieved with the gas puffs present. May also have to vary the JFT-2M strike point if the slot isn�??t working 3b. Vary nl04 to vary collisionality
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| Entered: Jun 21 2012 11:25:53:910AM |
| Author: Steve Scott |
| Starting at 5 PM, we will take a series of beam-into-gas shots without fields.
Modify setup from 1120524002: add a 300 ms open period for Pulse-gas-4 (-0.400 --> -0.100 sec) and put the pulse-gas-3 waveform to zero. |
| Entered: Jun 21 2012 06:14:01:487PM |
| Author: Bob Mumgaard |
| After the run we are doing some beam into gas shots to characterize the views of the MSE system and the beam width.
We have the Halpha grating in the UT spectrometer. We have the MSE LP and the PEMs are out. We have the beam duct monitor connected, the BES fibers are coupled into the spectrometer and currently MSE F02 is connected to A5 via the lens based coupler. The plan is to do a few parts. 0) Test, get correct pressure for good signal level. 2) Vary pressure up x2 and down x1/2, 4 shots. 3) Look through 5 MSE views, 5 shots. Pause and go permutate the BES fibers in the MSE disector, moving them to vertical orientation. Take an ISC shot to get get flatfield. 4) Do a 5-7 point current scan to get beam width measurements. Pause and change the permutation. 5) Repeat the 5-7 point current scan. |
| Physics Operators Plans |
| Entered: Jun 21 2012 07:47:17:300AM |
| Author: Jim Irby |
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Engineering Setup ----------------- Run begins at 09:00 and ends at 17:00 MP648 --- Direct Boron Density Asymmetry Measurements SL: Churchill PO: Irby Power systems as on: 1120614024 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) fill NINJA with 10 psi D2 DISABLED Enable gate-valves and shutters: ECE, VUV, HiREX Sr, Xeus/LoWEUS Leave z-bolo shutter as is (should be open) Torvac gatevalve toggle (yes/no): no Boronization(yes/no): yes Overnight ECDC (yes/no): yes ICRF(yes/no): Yes LH(yes/no): no Cryopump (yes/no): no DNB (yes/no): yes Vessel temperature: 35/35/35 Overnight boronization (follow the setup of 1120207) dP: 120 psi TC6:76 mTorr TC9:59 mTorr TC3:3.0mTorr piezo: 40.2 % rmin/rdwell/rmax: 44/75/90cm tdwell/tsweep: 60/120 s EF4 current: 0A pulser; on .7 sec. -off .3 sec. Post boronization ECDC ---------------------------- 1st Gas Setup: Gas: He sweep: 44/103/45 cm scan: 20/120 s Pressure: 5.0e-5 Torr Duration:3 Hrs -------------------------- |
| Entered: Jun 21 2012 09:08:22:483AM |
| Author: Jim Irby |
| load from 1120614024
Otd TF rampdown start from 1.5 to 1.8 s TF current of 142.5 kA continuous across seg1 to seg 2 transition left-gap for 1120614024 was ~ 0.96 cm adjust CLEARIN by 0.3 cm to get 0.7 cm gap: from -.001 to -.004 m Otd prefill from 15 to 18 ms -------------------------------------------------- disruption at 0.676 s --- moly injection? |
| Session Leader Summaries |
| Entered: Jun 21 2012 07:35:42:120PM |
| Author: Bob Mumgaard |
| We took some beam into gas shots without field.
The good shots were: 27- 1 mtorr 28- 2 mtorr 30- 0.5mtorr 32- 0.7mtorr 33- 3 mtorr for MSE F03 34- "" F09 35- "" F05 Then took ISC shot 503 at posC for flat field Moved BES fibers to vertical position. Couldn't get beam to go. Took ISC shot 504 at posC for flat field Scrubbed rest of run, need to fix beam and revisit to get the beam width. |
| Entered: Jun 21 2012 09:16:19:220PM |
| Author: Mike Churchill |
| These shots sought to vary the collisionality and pedestal parameters in a variety of H-modes (EDA, ELM-free, and ELMy) to study the effect on in-out boron impurity asymmetries and measure the total velocity vector in the pedestal.
Overall a productive day, considering the challenges. Parts of the plan were skipped, and others extended. Profile analysis needs to be done to see the range in collisionalities, and compare CXRS density and velocity profiles. The first 9 shots were dedicated to sorting out a variety of issues: 1. Post-boronization (1 shot, by shot #2 full-length EDA H-modes) 2. CXRS channel saturation 3. Shaping changes (should have picked a reference shot from 1110201 instead of 1120614) for H-mode and edge Thomson optimization 4. Software issues preventing Physop from saving changes (eventually had to switch out J. Irby for S. Wolfe) There were a variety of disruptions due to: 1. putting the RF too early during a crossover 2. putting the RF too early, during a time the plasma hadn't fully developed 3. Iron injections during the JFT-2M shape. Moved Surface Science Station (S^3) back, and it worked, not sure if it was the cause. RUN PLAN RESULTS ============================== PART 0: Boronization recovery (~4 shots) Maximum 4 shots. You get no more, C-Mod. => Worked well, first shot disrupted, H-mode on shot #2 PART 1: EDA H-modes (~9 shots). Reference shot: 1120614024. TO CHANGE: L-gap to ~6mm, different RF trace (see above) 1a. Ip=1.0 [MA], nl04=1.0e20 [m^-2] => #10 (many shots before, only saturating on various CXRS channels, and shape not optimized for edge Thomson) 1b. Ip=0.8 [MA], nl04=0.8e20 [m^-2] => skipped 1c. Ip=0.6 [MA], nl04=0.6e20 [m^-2] => #13,#14 PART 2: ELM-free H-modes (~5 shots) One ICRF pulse, 3.5MW from 0.6 to 1.5s May try ICRF pulses to force start/stop of ELM-free H-mode 2a. Ip=1.0 [MA], nl04=0.8e20 [m^-2] => #16 2b. Ip=0.8 [MA], nl04=0.6e20 [m^-2] => skipped => ADDED 2c. Ip=1.1 [MA], nl04=0.8e20 [m^-2] => #17 2d. Ip=1.2 [MA], nl04=0.9e20 [m^-2] => #18 2d. Ip=1.3 [MA], nl04=1.0e20 [m^-2] => #19 PART 3: ELMy H-modes (~7 shots) 3a. Adjust reference shot nl04 demand until ELMy H-modes achieved with the gas puffs present. May also have to vary the JFT-2M strike point if the slot isn�??t working => two working ELMy H-modes shots, #25, #26, though second half of these shots went out, due to either radiation or NINJA gas input, TBD 3b. Vary nl04 to vary collisionality => Never reached |
| Entered: Jun 22 2012 10:04:36:340AM |
| Author: Steve Scott |
| Continuation of MP693
shots 27-38: beam-into-gas, no fields The purpose of these shots is to (a) measure the angle between the MSE sightlines and the DNB trajectory, and (b) to measure the height of the DNB using BES. We accomplished part (a). Beam ran well, but at the end of the night had a power supply problem which terminated the run. At the start of the run, we turned off several trees despite a warning from Steve Wolfe that that would have unexpected and bad consequences. The first few shots were OK, then we ran into unexpected and bad consequences: BES data acquisition, which is in the DNB tree (which was left ON) failed to trigger twice. So we swallowed our pride, turned the trees back on, and after that we experienced no further problems with the BES data acquisition trigger. We also got a nice scan of MSE/BES signal strength versus torus pressure, from about 0.5 mTorr to about 3.2 mTorr. |
| Physics Operator Summaries |
| Entered: Jun 22 2012 08:12:00:590AM |
| Author: Steve Wolfe |
Physics Operator Summary for Thursday, 22-Jun-2012 MP#648 Boron Density asymmetry measurements SL: Churchill PO: Irby, Wolfe EO: Pfeiffer, Pierson, Fitzgerald This section of the report primarily covers shot#9-26 (wolfe) I took over as physop at shot#9 because we discovered that Alcdaq3 (alcdata-models) was not correctly copying files from Jim Irby's PCS working directories into the live model directory during the Load_into_Model operation. Loads from my account/directory worked fine all day. Josh verified that a problem existed seeing files in Irby's working directory from alcdaq3 , but was unable to understand why or come up with a fix. There seems to be a very long-lived cache (hours). After several hours, the files from the morning were picked up correctly. No idea how or why this happened. This is therefore an unresolved problem at this time. One of the first physop issues was a request to "increase the elongation", by which the SL really meant that he wanted the upper separatrix intersection with the Thomson Scattering chord to be higher, to place more of the high resolution TS channels in the pedestal region. It turned out that changing ZXU was not the most effective way to do this, and more satisfactory results were obtained by raising the whole plasma raising zcur, first to be flat at -.015m, instead of ramping down as in the reference shot, and then to -.012m. It was in fact the change to -.015 that could not be loaded from Jim Irby's account and led to my taking over as physop. For shot#9, we set up a 4mm radial position scan (both rcur and clearin) which was used for most of the rest of the day. The SL run plan called for 3 current/density steps in EDA h-mode, but because a lot of time had been lost, only the 1MA and 0.6MA cases were run. The 0.6MA case initially had a disruption problem at OH1 crossover, which came during the RF pulse. I speeded up the crossover using the Loadable procedure oh1_crossover (in TEST_PROS), and we delayed the RF a bit and got a satisfactory 600kA shot. Step 2 was ELM-free H-modes at higher current and lower density. It turned out to be necessary (maybe) to turn the oh1_crossover procedure back off, and raise the early density a bit, but we eventually got "good" ELM-free cases at 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3MA. A locked mode shot (#20, using seg3) disrupted just after 1sec, but was deemed good enough. We then moved on to ELMy H-mode condition, which was problematic. The reference shot was 1101214029, seg2, which I loaded into seg4. All magnetics predictors (wires 1-8) were recalculated. These shots suffered from Fe injections, perhaps related to the floor strike hitting the missing tile area. Increasing the target density and adjusting the RF timing and program succeeded in getting some decent ELMy examples. Moving the strike point out by moving RXL out by 1cm on shot#24 led had a disruption so we moved it back for 25 and 26, which worked. After the main run was over, the Beam and spectroscopy guys ran a number of beam into gas shots, with Steve Scott as physop. The startup looked kind of ratty most of the day. Halpha had a long flat spot at the peak, sometimes showing bounces, but the rcur postion appeared to be moving in between 10 and 15msec, with a current hesitation. I made several tweaks, reducing EF4 from -1320 to -1300 to raise initial Bz0, but also dropping the pg4, getting down to 15msec, and removing most of the seg1 PG3 puff. This may have helped a little, or not. There were only 2 fizzles, and they were post-disruption, and no problems with runaways, so functionally the startup was adequate. |
| Session Leader Comments | |||
| Jun 21 2012 08:09:01:937AM | 1120621001 | Mike Churchill | Digitizer issues on fast diode crate. Joe Bosco changing out crate controller. Run will wait on him.
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| Jun 21 2012 08:22:00:723AM | 1120621001 | Mike Churchill | Joe Bosco has replaced the crate controller. Appears to be in working order.
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| Jun 21 2012 09:07:15:800AM | 1120621001 | Mike Churchill | Disruption @ 0.68s
NEXT SHOT: Change Bt from 5.2T to 5.4T. |
| Jun 21 2012 09:29:37:143AM | 1120621002 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, nice H-mode (EDA? Can't find QCM)
ICRF is being ramped during boronization recovery. Bt wasnt loaded, will next shot Beam timing changed to 50/25 NEXT SHOT: Repeat |
| Jun 21 2012 09:59:11:527AM | 1120621003 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, nice H-mode
Bt wasnt loaded, something wrong with the loading routines DNB timing set, need to extend CXRS saturating on some channels on the LFS, may need to add attenuation fibers. Strange BV signal ~after RF comes on, very high and saturating. Enhancement NEXT SHOT: Repeat. ICRF will go into Plan 1 steps |
| Jun 21 2012 09:59:34:043AM | 1120621004 | Mike Churchill | Delays due to shot loading issues |
| Jun 21 2012 10:31:40:573AM | 1120621004 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, ICRF a little ratty on second phase.
ICRF in Plan1 shape. Views on POL_BCK still saturating, put on attenuator fibers. NEXT SHOT: Repeat, with attenuator fibers on |
| Jun 21 2012 10:45:41:573AM | 1120621004 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, ICRF drops in 2nd 4MW phase
ICRF in Plan1 shape. Views on POL_BCK C9,C10 saturating fix Elongation needs to increasse for edge Thomson. Try for kappa~1.62 NEXT SHOT: Repeat once more, with attenuator fibers on, and hopefully steady RF in the 4MW phase |
| Jun 21 2012 11:03:57:603AM | 1120621006 | Mike Churchill | Fizzle
shots 1-5 on the IW poloidal periscopes see an increase in BV when the H-mode comes on, without an increase in Dalpha. Noticed upper triangularity is low (~0.28), may be creating a source of boron from the IW. NEXT SHOT: Repeat, Increase deltau to ~0.35 |
| Jun 21 2012 11:42:01:163AM | 1120621007 | Mike Churchill | Good shot
Elongation still low, increase to 1.62 Saturating on IW_POL_SIG, fix Strong BV increase on IW_POL periscopes still, though has reduced since changing the upper triangularity. NEXT SHOT: Repeat, increasing elongation. Shift first puff 100ms so that puff is away from the strong BV increase on the IW poloidal views |
| Jun 21 2012 11:36:40:470AM | 1120621008 | Mike Churchill | Loading routine issues, Wolfe and Josh are looking into it |
| Jun 21 2012 12:10:16:250PM | 1120621008 | Mike Churchill | Intermittent H-modes, ICRF faulting
NEXT SHOT: Repeat, with gap sweep |
| Jun 21 2012 12:47:44:363PM | 1120621010 | Mike Churchill | Good shot
CXRS looks good, IW_POL low but IW_SIG seems good. Move on. NEXT SHOT: Part1c, Ip=0.66, nl04=0.6 (skip Part1b) |
| Jun 21 2012 12:58:12:440PM | 1120621011 | Mike Churchill | Disruption @ 0.75s
NEXT SHOT: Repeat |
| Jun 21 2012 01:31:25:743PM | 1120621012 | Mike Churchill | Disruption @ 0.93s
NEXT SHOT: Push back RF (crossover problems?) |
| Jun 21 2012 08:46:57:393PM | 1120621013 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, ip=0.6, nl04=0.6
NEXT SHOT: Repeat, put RF back to 0.7 |
| Jun 21 2012 01:49:28:277PM | 1120621014 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, Ip=0.6, nl04=0.6
NEXT SHOT: Part 2a, ELM-free, Ip=1.0, nl04=0.8 |
| Jun 21 2012 02:08:33:540PM | 1120621015 | Mike Churchill | Disruption @ 0.42s
NEXT SHOT: Repeat Part 2a, ELM-free, Ip=1.0, nl04=0.8 |
| Jun 21 2012 02:48:41:313PM | 1120621017 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, 5 ELM-free phases.
NEXT SHOT: Increase Ip=1.2MA, nl04=0.9 |
| Jun 21 2012 03:04:31:543PM | 1120621018 | Mike Churchill | Good shot
NEXT SHOT: Increase Ip=1.3MA, nl04=1.0. Drop RF power to 2.5MW |
| Jun 21 2012 03:20:52:020PM | 1120621019 | Mike Churchill | Good shot,Ip=1.3MA, nl04=1.0, RF=2.5MW
NEXT SHOT: Locked mode, then JFT-2M |
| Jun 21 2012 03:38:04:007PM | 1120621020 | Mike Churchill | Locked mode, locks 0.86, disrupts 1.04
NEXT SHOT: Plan 3a, ELMY H-mode, reference 1101214029 |
| Jun 21 2012 04:00:34:283PM | 1120621021 | Mike Churchill | Disruption @ 0.7s
NEXT SHOT: Repeat, increase nl04, move the RF back to 0.7s, set to 2MW |
| Jun 21 2012 04:08:54:867PM | 1120621022 | Mike Churchill | Disruption @ 0.01s
NEXT SHOT: Repeat Part3a |
| Jun 21 2012 04:35:16:870PM | 1120621023 | Mike Churchill | H-mode, but multiple iron injections. Not clear ELMs on the Halpha trace.
NEXT SHOT: Increase nl04=0.6, move strike point out |
| Jun 21 2012 05:04:55:160PM | 1120621025 | Mike Churchill | Good shot, ELMs present, NINJA appears to kick it out of ELMy H-mode around 1.1s.
NEXT SHOT: Raise RF power |
| Jun 21 2012 05:30:53:887PM | 1120621027 | Bob Mumgaard | Good. ~1mtorr
Double it for next shot. |
| Jun 21 2012 05:32:19:657PM | 1120621027 | Steve Scott | loaded /home/sscott/pcs_scratch/1120621000 which is:
1120524002 but turn on pulse_gas4 for 300 ms (-0.40 to -0.10) and turn off pulse_gas3. we are aiming to get a torus pressure of about 1.5-2.0 mTorr. turned off the following trees: electrons, fueling, lh, particles, rf, spectroscopy, and transport, in an effort to shorten the shot cycle. result: good gas, good dnb. pressure = 0.9 mTorr |
| Jun 21 2012 05:33:01:780PM | 1120621028 | Steve Scott | This shot: double duration of gas puff to 600 ms, -0.7 --> -0.1 |
| Jun 21 2012 05:36:56:800PM | 1120621028 | Steve Scott | This shot: double duration of gas puff to 600 ms, -0.7 --> -0.1. got
about 1.8 mTorr maximum. good dnb. |
| Jun 21 2012 05:38:39:360PM | 1120621028 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. 2mtorr. Next one to to 0.5mTorr. |
| Jun 21 2012 05:37:25:470PM | 1120621029 | Steve Scott | go to half pressure, 150 ms pulse duration.
also turn on spectroscopy tree |
| Jun 21 2012 05:45:22:597PM | 1120621029 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. Spect stored but didn't trigger properly. Retake. |
| Jun 21 2012 05:45:16:253PM | 1120621030 | Steve Scott | reload shot 29 |
| Jun 21 2012 05:55:55:700PM | 1120621030 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. Good spect. Next, pressure to 0.7mTorr. |
| Jun 21 2012 05:51:14:470PM | 1120621031 | Steve Scott | set gas pulse duration=0.225 |
| Jun 21 2012 06:00:29:440PM | 1120621031 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. Spect didn't trigger properly, repeat. |
| Jun 21 2012 06:01:02:860PM | 1120621032 | Steve Scott | reload 31
turn on all trees except rf and lh |
| Jun 21 2012 06:04:58:530PM | 1120621032 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. Spect triggered okay. Next up to 4mtorr.
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| Jun 21 2012 06:11:37:243PM | 1120621033 | Steve Scott | gas puff duration = 1200 ms. good ... 3.4 --> 2.0 mTorr. will use this for
all three mse channels |
| Jun 21 2012 06:15:00:967PM | 1120621033 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. Spect triggered okay. About 3mTorr. Good data. Next: Change from looking at F02 to F09 looking through A5.
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| Jun 21 2012 06:18:10:620PM | 1120621034 | Steve Scott | no PCS changes. move MSE channel
got good beam and gas and spectra. so next shot, move on to next mse channel |
| Jun 21 2012 06:21:07:440PM | 1120621034 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. Spect triggered okay. About 3mTorr. Good data. Next: Change from looking at F09 to F05 looking through A5.
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| Jun 21 2012 06:25:31:953PM | 1120621035 | Steve Scott | no PCS changes. new MSE channel.
good dnb, good torus pressure (like 33 and 34) |
| Jun 21 2012 06:42:53:133PM | 1120621035 | Bob Mumgaard | Good beam. Spect triggered okay. About 3mTorr.
Next: We take an ISC shot in position C to get a flat field, shot 503. I go in with Ken and we move the BES channels into the middle vertical row. They are now inline with F05. Lower the pressure and take a shot. |
| Jun 21 2012 06:42:38:970PM | 1120621036 | Steve Scott | load from shot 31. gas puff duration = 225 ms.
start of BES shots. result: no DNB |
| Jun 21 2012 06:43:36:527PM | 1120621036 | Bob Mumgaard | No beam. Repeat. |
| Jun 21 2012 06:49:47:347PM | 1120621037 | Steve Scott | no PCS changes. dnb gate valve did not open. apparently it did not open on
the previous shot, either. but dnb permissive is still ok |
| Jun 21 2012 07:06:41:370PM | 1120621037 | Bob Mumgaard | No beam. Gate vlave didn't open. Edgar is taking a test shot.
If successful, Repeat. We took another ISC shot at position C for a flat field in this new configuration. Shot 504. |
| Jun 21 2012 07:14:47:290PM | 1120621038 | Steve Scott | No PCS changes.
result: no HV on dnb. followed this with a dnb test shot, again no HV. |
| Jun 21 2012 07:28:26:100PM | 1120621038 | Bob Mumgaard | Scrubbing run to troubleshoot the DNB HV problems. Closing MSE shutter. |
| Jun 21 2012 07:26:38:717PM | 1120621039 | Steve Scott | no PCS changes.
run scrubbed before shot ... we will try again on MOnday ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Physics Operator Comments | |||
| Jun 21 2012 09:28:05:887AM | 1120621002 | Jim Irby | changes --------------------------------
prefill from 18 to 16 ms to account, I hope, for disruption Otd results -------------------------------- plasma into rampdown |
| Jun 21 2012 09:58:51:193AM | 1120621003 | Jim Irby | changes --------------------------------
TF from 142.5 to 150 kA argon from 0.3 to 0.355 s Otd results -------------------------------- plasma into rampdown problem with PCS file --- did not reflect changes made in PCS |
| Jun 21 2012 10:22:50:210AM | 1120621004 | Jim Irby | changes --------------------------------
closed PCS and then started it again did shot 03 changes again (except for left gap) Otd Steve Wolfe sees the changes in the PCS files results -------------------------------- plasma into rampdown got proper Bt, clearin, argon |
| Jun 21 2012 10:40:45:833AM | 1120621005 | Jim Irby | changes --------------------------------
increase elongation --- *** increased ZXU when I should have decreased it! results -------------------------------- plasma into rampdown |
| Jun 21 2012 11:04:42:493AM | 1120621006 | Jim Irby | changes --------------------------------
ZXU now 0.03 m Otd results -------------------------------- fizzle |
| Jun 21 2012 11:11:18:210AM | 1120621008 | Jim Irby | changes --------------------------------
no dpcs changes results -------------------------------- plasma into rampdown --- elongation 1.55 still but triangularity 0.32 now |
| Jun 21 2012 12:13:02:910PM | 1120621008 | Jim Irby | changes --------------------------------
ZXU made flat at 0.03 m ZCUR to -0.015 from -0.020 m Otd results -------------------------------- PCS file update issue discovered again. Steve Wolfe and Josh working on the problem Steve Wolfe takes over PCS. My version is still running, but will not make any changes until we figure out the problem. plasma into rampdown RF still faulting/cleaning up Only a single DNB pulse elongation 1.6, upper triag 0.32 |
| Jun 21 2012 12:36:13:523PM | 1120621009 | Steve Wolfe | For shot #9, program a radial position scan (both clearin and rcur) by 4mm starting at 0.9sec, scan out at 1.1sec, flat to 1.3sec, back by 1.5sec. clearin from -.0055 to -.0015 rcur from .657 to .661 also zcur from -.015 to -.012 to move sep at TS location. Result: plasma full length looks like it did about what was requested. Next: reduce pg4 in seg 1 from 18 to 16msec reduce pg1 in seg2 to 80% duty factor per mlr no changes for sl |
| Jun 21 2012 12:45:07:160PM | 1120621010 | Steve Wolfe | For shot #10 reduce pg4 in seg 1 from 18 to 16msec reduce pg1 in seg2 to 80% duty factor per mlr no other changes for sl Load at 21-Jun-2012 12:36:08.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma full length startup is still moving in and hesitating, burnout maybe a little better Next: get rid of back porch on pg3 in seg1 Goto 600kA, 0.6nl04 |
| Jun 21 2012 01:11:35:650PM | 1120621011 | Steve Wolfe | shot #11: get rid of back porch on pg3 in seg1 Goto 600kA, 0.6nl04 Reduce argon to 50% Load at 21-Jun-2012 12:49:25.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma disrupts at .75 sec, during oh1 crossover Got a crowbar on oh1, supply may have caused the disruption? Disruption did come first, self-powered circuit fired. Just a brick I think. startup was bouncy, but survived. Next: try increasing ef4 from -1320 to -1310 |
| Jun 21 2012 01:27:13:580PM | 1120621012 | Steve Wolfe | shot #12: try increasing ef4 from -1320 to -1310 Still trying for 600kA case: get rid of back porch on pg3 in seg1 Goto 600kA, 0.6nl04 Reduce argon to 50% Load at 21-Jun-2012 13:04:21.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: another disruption at 0.93, in trouble from 0.7sec Could be a problem during crossover, losing gap control. I can turn on the oh1_crossover procedure, and delay the RF to 0.8sec |
| Jun 21 2012 01:36:54:753PM | 1120621013 | Steve Wolfe | shot #13: turn on the oh1_crossover procedure, and delay the RF to 0.8sec leave ef4 at -1310 Still trying for 600kA case: get rid of back porch on pg3 in seg1 Goto 600kA, 0.6nl04 Reduce argon to 50% Load at 21-Jun-2012 13:27:22.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma full length crossover routine worked, crossover lasts from .625 to .65sec Startup still looks ugly. Next: repeat with RF on at 0.7sec Argon back up to 70% |
| Jun 21 2012 01:51:12:277PM | 1120621014 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#14: repeat with RF on at 0.7sec Argon back up to 70% No startup changes Load at 21-Jun-2012 13:37:54.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma full length startup still moving in from 12 to 15msec Moving on to 1MA, 0.8nl04 (part 2a) |
| Jun 21 2012 02:11:38:937PM | 1120621015 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#15:Moving on to 1MA, 0.8nl04 (part 2a) Decrease pg4 from 16 to 15msec in seg1 Turn off pg3 after 0.0 in seg1 Load at 21-Jun-2012 13:55:32.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: Disrupts at 0.4 sec, just after crossover! maybe I should have turned off the crossover routine. OH1 crowbarred again. Injection happens at .37, never sawtooths, could be a locked mode. nl04 is only 0.6, no gas puffing in seg2 (or small). Need to raise nl04 faster |
| Jun 21 2012 02:29:05:043PM | 1120621016 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#16:Moving on to 1MA, 0.8nl04 (part 2a) Raise nl04 faster, increase nl04 P gain from 3 to 6 Turn off crossover routine Load at 21-Jun-2012 14:13:53.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma full length. Got elm-free H-modes early in rf pulse, but may turn into EDA later. Next: repeat? |
| Jun 21 2012 02:41:14:370PM | 1120621017 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#17: Increase current to 1.1MA Load at 21-Jun-2012 14:31:52.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma full length, more h-modes (5), last one may be bad eda Startup still hesitating Next: raise ef4 from -1310 to -1300 change current? |
| Jun 21 2012 03:01:30:323PM | 1120621018 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#18: raise ef4 in seg1 from -1310 to -1300 change current to 1.2MA, nl04 to 0.9e20 Load at 21-Jun-2012 14:45:06.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done plasma full length, multiple h-modes, elm-free, as requested some bounciness in startup, I'm hesitant to do any more about it; next step might be ef3_volt tweak. Next: 1.3MA, nl04=1.0e20 |
| Jun 21 2012 03:16:07:910PM | 1120621019 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#19: 1.3MA, nl04=1.0e20 No startup changes Load at 21-Jun-2012 15:02:33.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma full length, multiple H-modes Similar startup Next: locked mode shot |
| Jun 21 2012 03:33:48:720PM | 1120621020 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#20: locked mode shot import seg3 from 1120620017 seg3 Seg2 off, seg3 on Load at 21-Jun-2012 15:18:56.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: disruption at 1.03sec NExt: go to jft2m shape (1101214029, seg2 into seg4) |
| Jun 21 2012 03:58:04:173PM | 1120621021 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#21: go to jft2m shape import 1101214029, seg2 into seg4 and recalc mag predictors Turn off seg3 turn on seg4 Request f.d. off time to 1.8sec (was 2.3) Load at 21-Jun-2012 15:45:36.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: plasma disrupts at 0.9sec, injection at .65sec Next: Delay rf as on reference shot, Increase density to 6e19 early, drop back to 4e19 before rf |
| Jun 21 2012 04:09:05:413PM | 1120621022 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#22: Delay rf as on reference shot, Increase density to 6e19 early, drop back to 4e19 at 0.5sec, before rf Also remove programmed H-bot puff (not enabled anyway) Load at 21-Jun-2012 16:00:16.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done fizzle, post-disruption; also, there was a leak after the last shot CII is up at breakdown (in fact it was invisible all day until this shot) Next: try that again |
| Jun 21 2012 04:28:39:183PM | 1120621023 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#23: Increase density a little faster in seg2 to 6e19 Delay rf as on reference shot, Increase density to 6e19 early, drop back to 4e19 at 0.5sec, before rf Load at 21-Jun-2012 16:11:12.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done plasma full length breakdown better. very ratty looking intermittant H-modes, possible elming but not great Next: Move RXL out by 1cm |
| Jun 21 2012 04:46:24:990PM | 1120621024 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#24:Move RXL out from -.045 to -.035 Raise nl04 from 4 to 6e19 in target, which it already almost was getting anyway Load at 21-Jun-2012 16:31:47.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done Result: disrupts at 0.67sec, before RF. Looks like another injection. Density was 7.7e19 before the injection, no sign of a problem before the injection, then it just goes. Matt says Fe again. Next: Move rxl back where it was |
| Jun 21 2012 04:59:33:480PM | 1120621025 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#25: Move rxl back where it was (-.045) Load at 21-Jun-2012 16:47:42.00 Open tree /home/wolfe/pcs_scratch -1 Open tree done plasma full length, some ELMs Apparently the NINJA kills off the ELMs Next: same pcs program, raise RF power later in shot |
| Jun 21 2012 05:07:36:577PM | 1120621026 | Steve Wolfe | Shot#26: same pcs program, raise RF power later in shot Result: plasma full length, ELMs through maybe 1.1sec End of Run |
| Engineering Operator Comments | ||||
| Shot | Time | Type | Status | Comment |
| 1 | 08:59:28:840AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 2 | 09:13:01:383AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 3 | 09:28:37:763AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 4 | 10:13:12:463AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 5 | 10:32:12:700AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 6 | 10:48:10:777AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 7 | 11:03:29:080AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 8 | 11:52:28:940AM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 9 | 12:22:28:003PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 10 | 12:37:45:733PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 11 | 12:52:37:350PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 12 | 01:13:51:310PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 13 | 01:29:14:380PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 14 | 01:44:20:197PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 15 | 02:01:28:413PM | Plasma | Ok | OH1 self powered circuit fired |
| 16 | 02:19:36:880PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 17 | 02:34:44:107PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 18 | 02:51:07:320PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 19 | 03:09:22:810PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 20 | 03:29:04:183PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 21 | 03:46:47:413PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 22 | 04:04:09:783PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 23 | 04:17:32:980PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 24 | 04:34:48:933PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 25 | 04:49:39:600PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 26 | 05:03:40:343PM | Plasma | Ok | |
| 27 | 05:26:39:693PM | Test | Ok | |
| 28 | 05:33:52:157PM | Test | Ok | |
| 29 | 05:39:54:133PM | Test | Ok | |
| 30 | 05:46:09:907PM | Test | Ok | |
| 31 | 05:53:26:690PM | Test | Ok | |
| 32 | 06:01:03:820PM | Test | Ok | |
| 33 | 06:07:53:947PM | Test | Ok | |
| 34 | 06:14:39:203PM | Test | Ok | |
| 35 | 06:22:07:807PM | Test | Ok | |
| 36 | 06:39:28:417PM | Test | Ok | |
| 37 | 06:46:12:190PM | Test | Ok | |
| 38 | 07:08:04:780PM | Test | Ok | |
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