Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2017, 2 (5): 263, Published Online: Jan. 17, 2018   

Formation of Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) on the Yingguang-I device

Author Affiliations
1 Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Miangyang 621900, China
2 Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Technology and Science, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Miangyang 621900, China
3 Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China
Abstract
As a hybrid approach to realizing fusion energy, Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) based on the Field Reversed Configuration (FRC), which has the plasma density and confinement time in the range between magnetic and inertial confinement fusion, has been recently widely pursued around the world. To investigate the formation and confinement of the FRC plasma injector for MTF, the Yingguang-I, which is an FRC test device and contains a multi-bank program-discharged pulsed power sub-system, was constructed at the Institute of Fluid Physics (IFP), China. This paper presents the pulsed power components and their parameters of the device in detail, then gives a brief description of progress in experiments of FRC formation. Experimental results of the pulsed power sub-system show that the peak current/magnetic field of 110 kA/0.3 T, 10 kA/1.2 T and 1.7 MA/3.4 T were achieved in the bias, mirror and θ-pinch circuits with quarter cycle of 80 μs, 700 μs and 3.8 μs respectively. The induced electric field in the neutral gas was greater than 0.25 kV/cm when the ionization bank was charged to 70 kV. With H2 gas of 8 Pa, the plasma target of density 1016 cm-3, separatrix radius 4 cm, half-length 17 cm, equilibrium temperature 200 eV and lifetime 3 μs (approximately the half pulse width of the reversed field) have been obtained through the θ-pinch method when the bias, mirror, ionization and θ-pinch banks were charged to 5 kV, 5 kV, 55 kV and ±45 kV respectively. The images from the high-speed end-on framing camera demonstrate the formation processes of FRC and some features agree well with the results with the two-dimension magneto hydrodynamics code (2D-MHD).

Qizhi Sun, Xianjun Yang, Yuesong Jia, Lulu Li, Dongfan Fang, Xiaoming Zhao, Weidong Qin, Zhengfen Liu, Wei Liu, Jun Li, Yuan Chi, Xiaoguang Wang. Formation of Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) on the Yingguang-I device[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2017, 2(5): 263.

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