[HTML][HTML] Design of power supply system for the NanChang Spherical Tokamak

M Hou, YZ Qian, SQ Liu, XS Yang, XC Chen - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The NanChang Spherical Tokamak (NCST), a new compact (plasma major radius R= 0.40
m, minor radius a= 0.24 m, and aspect ratio A= 1.67) spherical tokamak, is suitable for …

A hybrid cascaded H-bridge converter for poloidal magnets of tokamaks

Z Song, Y Tan, S Wang, B Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high-performance control of tokamak plasmas requires the poloidal magnet power
supply (PS) to have a large current output at the 10-kA class, a current slew rate at the 1 …

Development of prototype power supply for ohmic transformer system of SSST

U Thaker, V Ranjan, SA Nair - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
The conceptual design of Small Scale Spherical Tokamak (SSST) has been completed at
Institute for Plasma Research (IPR). It consists of poloidal field (or Equilibrium) field coils …

Performance of MT-I spherical tokamak with upgraded power supplies

OA Rehman, S Ahmad, MA Javed… - Radiation Effects and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes the upgradation of power supply systems for the improved
performance of a small spherical tokamak (MT-I) with an aspect ratio of 1.67 in operation at …

Initial testing of ohmic heating through double flux swing during electron cyclotron start-up in the QUEST spherical tokamak

Y Zhang, T Onchi, K Nakamura, YUE Qilin… - Plasma Science and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A power-supply system was developed for Ohmic heating (OH) to double× 10 18 the amount
of change magnetic flux in the primary central solenoid (CS) on the QUEST spherical …

A 100 kA-Class Modular Power Supply for Tokamak Magnets

T Chang, B Wang, M Yang, Y Tan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Supercapacitors (SC) are becoming more and more popular in pulsed power supply (PS) for
tokamak PS due to several advantages, including, but not limited to, high power density …

Designing an upgrade of ohmic heating system for the QUEST spherical tokamak

Y Zhang, T Onchi, K Nakamura, A Kidani, Q Yue… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
An upgraded Ohmic heating (OH) system with a bipolar circuit is designed to achieve
plasma current over 100 kA ideally without the effect of eddy current in the QUEST spherical …

A novel design of Ohmic Transformer Power Supply (OTPS) for Spherical Tokamaks

AU Thaker, S Nair - 2024 IEEE 9th International Conference for …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nuclear fusion is one of the few sustainable options to replace fossil fuels as the world's
primary energy source, with Deuterium and Tritium as fusion fuels. Thich can be achieved by …

A low noise power supply based on buck converter for current regulation in an inductive load

W Liu, Y Tan, Z Gao, S Chai, S Hong - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
High current regulations are widely required in tokamaks to generate a specific magnetic
field for plasma confinement which is challenging for power electronics. For high current …

[PDF][PDF] Snubber Circuit Optimization of the Central Solenoid Power System for Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus

SC Hong, JY Park, YG Kim, KJ Chung, YS Hwang… - energy, 2018 - kns.org
For the fusion experiment, tokamak devices such as KSTAR typically use a central solenoid
(CS) for ohmic discharge. Since 2012, Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus (VEST) has …