流动注射-氢化物发生-电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱法测定矿石中的砷、锑、铋

本文将流动注射-氢化物-ICP/AES 技术应用于矿石中痕量砷、锑、铋的测定。结果表明,本法具有分析速度快(60样/小时),灵敏度高(As、Sb、Bi 的测定下限达μg/g 级),精度好及操作简便等优点。     

Radiative divertor behavior and physics in Ar seeded plasma on EAST

To investigate the radiative divertor behavior and physics for the scenario of impurity seeded plasma in ITER, the radiative divertor experiments with argon(Ar) seeding under ITER-like tungsten divertor condition were carried out during recent EAST campaigns. The experimental results reveal the high efficiency of reducing heat load and particle flux onto the divertor targets owing to increased radiation by Ar seeding. We achieve detached plasmas in these experiments. The inner–outer divertor asymmetry reduces after Ar seeding. Impurities, such as Ar, C, Li, and W, exist in the entire space of the vacuum chamber during EAST operations, and play important roles in power exhausting and accelerating the plasma detachment process. It is remarkable that the contamination of the core plasma is observed using Ar seeding owing to the sputtering of plasma facing components(PFCs), particularly when Ar impurity is injected from the upper tungsten divertor.     

Evolution of the high-field-side radiation belts during the neon seeding plasma discharge in EAST tokamak

Divertor detachment achieved by injecting impurities or increasing density is always accompanied with various local radiation phenomena in the boundary or core plasma. This paper presents the formation and evolution of the high-field-side (HFS) radiation belts during the neon seeding plasma discharge in upper single null configuration with two directions of toroidal magnetic field in EAST tokamak. The neon mixed with deuterium seeding can induce the divertor detachment with strong radiation belts in the HFS scrape-off layer (SOL) region. With the increase of the radiation power, the plasma discharge will transit from H-mode to L-mode, and meanwhile the radiation belts move away from the near X-point to HFS SOL. When the radiation power is high enough, the radiation belts begin to move further to the other X-point along the HFS SOL, and even cause plasma disruption. The results indicate that the behavior of the radiation belts is related to the radiation power, plasma confinement performance and state of divertor detachment, which is useful for developing better feedback control methods to achieve high-performance radiative divertor operation mode.     

Experimental investigation on divertor tungsten sputtering with neon seeding in ELMy H-mode plasma in EAST tokamak

Neon (Ne) seeding is used to cool the edge plasma by radiation to protect the divertor tungsten (W) target in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). The W sputtering in the outer divertor target with Ne seeding is assessed by the divertor visible spectroscopy system. It is observed that the W sputtering flux initially increases with Ne concentration in the divertor despite the decreasing plasma temperature. After reaching a maximum around 25 eV, the W sputtering rate starts to decrease, presenting a suppression effect. The effect on the divertor W sputtering flux and yield due to the competition between the increase of the Ne concentration and the decrease of the plasma temperature is discussed. The results show that enough Ne seeding is essential to effectively reduce the electron temperature and thus to suppress W sputtering. Moreover, ELM suppression is observed when Ne and W impurities enter the core plasma, which could be correlated to the enhanced turbulence transport in the pedestal.     

EAST边界和芯部杂质谱线的时间延迟研究

边界杂质注入是未来聚变装置ITER用于增强边界辐射，减少第一壁热负荷的一种重要方法。但部分注入的杂质会被输运到芯部，造成主等离子体辐射损失以及约束下降。光谱观测可以获取杂质种类、含量和分布等信息，在理解等离子体中杂质输运方面起着重要作用。在EAST（experimental advanced superconducting tokamak）偏滤器氩气（Ar）注入实验中，利用偏滤器可见光谱和芯部极紫外光谱监测边界的Ar1+离子谱线Ar Ⅱ(401.36 nm)和芯部的Ar15+离子谱线Ar ⅩⅥ(35.39 nm)，并获得两者强度随时间的变化。其中，Ar Ⅱ和Ar ⅩⅥ的电离能分别为27和918 eV，因此，Ar Ⅱ和Ar ⅩⅥ分别对应分布于等离子体边界和芯部Ar离子。为了分析二者谱线强度随时间变化的特征，发展了一种基于正则Pearson积矩相关系数的相关分析方法，计算得到两者谱线强度变化的相对延迟时间，以此表征杂质从边界向芯部输运的时间。结果显示，偏滤器注入Ar杂质后，芯部Ar ⅩⅥ辐射增长滞后于边界Ar Ⅱ辐射的增长，并且在具有较高的低杂波加热功率的放电中，两者的延迟时间较长，表明较高的低杂波加热功率可以延长杂质从边界向芯部输运的时间。