29th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2016)

P4.108 Design and development of high pressure high temperature water circulation system for HHFTF

8 Sep 2016, 14:20

1h 40m

Foyer 2A (2nd floor), 3A (3rd floor) (Prague Congress Centre)

Board: 108

Poster F. Plasma Facing Components P4 Poster session

Speaker

Rajamannar Swamy Kidambi (Divertor & First Wall Technology Development Division)

Description

This paper deals with the design of High Pressure High Temperature Water Circulation System (HPHT-WCS) for High Heat Flux Test Facility (HHFTF) of IPR and its related thermal hydraulic experiments. HHFTF has been established at IPR, India for testing performance of plasma facing components under intense heat loads expected in plasma fusion devices. Plasma facing components of the present day Tokamaks are primarily water cooled e.g. ITER. In order to test the water cooled test mock-ups or components in HHFTF, HPHT-WCS is being established that can supply water at desired pressures, temperatures and flow rates. Apart from testing thermal load performance of the mock-ups/components, this experimental loop will also be useful for validation of the computational results obtained from CFD codes which are used to develop/investigate various new concepts of water cooled components. HPHT-WCS, a new planned experimental loop is capable of providing de-mineralized water up to 160°C temperature, 60bar pressure and 4.85 kg/s mass flow rate. The loop is designed on a skid base frame which has piping connected to various process components and the system is operated remotely through a data acquisition and control system. The main requirements and characteristics, design and development, results of performance testing of the HPHT-WCS are presented in this paper.