Name: ECRH workshop 2025
Start: 2025-02-04T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-02-06T13:00:00+01:00
Location: IPP Greifswald

ECRH workshop 2025

from Tuesday 4 February 2025 (09:00) to Thursday 6 February 2025 (13:00)

Monday 3 February 2025
Tuesday 4 February 2025
09:00 EC Plant Operation
EC Plant Operation
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Paco Sanchez Arcos (F4E)

09:10 Increasing the Reliability of the W7-X ECRH System by Controlling the Total ECRH Power - Laurent Krier (KIT)

09:40 The Foreseen Operational Management of DTT ECH System - Gustavo Granucci (ISTP CNR)

10:10 Compliance with the electrical standards for the commissioning of EC power supplies - Ferran Albajar
11:10 Gyrotrons R&D Part 1
Gyrotrons R&D Part 1
11:10 - 12:40
Contributions

11:10 Future-Oriented R&D for High-Power Fusion Gyrotrons at KIT - Stefan Illy (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

11:40 Research Towards Megawatt-Class Fusion Gyrotrons Operating at the Second Harmonic of the Cyclotron Frequency - Lukas Feuerstein (KIT)

12:10 Towards the Verification and Validation of a Thermo-Hydraulic and Mechanical Model for High-Power Gyrotron Cavities - Ruggero Guido Bertazzoni (KIT)
14:00 Gyrotrons R&D Part 2
Gyrotrons R&D Part 2
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Recent Investigations on higher power and higher frequency gyrotrons at NKUA - Zisis Ioannidis (NKUA)

14:30 Advancements in Gyrotron Theory, Design, and Technology at ETH Zurich - Ioannis Pagonakis (ETH)

15:00 Progress on W7-X Upgrades: Advancing Towards 2 MW Operation - Debasish Mondal (KIT)

15:30 Design of a gyrotron for future high field fusion application - André Schmidt (KIT)
16:10 Tour of the Wendelstein 7-X ECRH system
Tour of the Wendelstein 7-X ECRH system
16:10 - 18:00
Wednesday 5 February 2025
09:00 Power Supplies and Transmission Lines
Power Supplies and Transmission Lines
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 PS technical specification for the first COMPASS-U gyrotron - Ondrej Bogar (IPP.CR)

09:30 Concept and challenges of the DTT ECH transmission - Francesco Fanale (ENEA)

10:00 Connection Line for DTT gyrotron test - Saul Garavaglia (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma CNR MI (ENEA_CNR))
11:00 EC Diagnostics
EC Diagnostics
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Towards a standard Diagnostic for the not absorbed Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating power at Wendelstein 7-X - Jonas Zimmermann (MPG)

11:30 EC stray radiation studies for JT-60SA - Carlo Sozzi (ENEA ISTP-CNR Milano)

12:00 Plasma start-up with low ECRH power at W7-X - Niklas Simon Polei (IPP)
12:30 Group photo
Group photo
12:30 - 12:40
14:00 Test facilities
Test facilities
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 MISTRAL experiments in support of W7-X, ITER and JT-60SA - Johan Willem Oosterbeek (IPP)

14:30 Proposal for an ECH Test facility at DTT site - Afra Romano (ENEA-Frascati)

15:00 The ECRH facilities at the Swiss Plasma Center: TCV and FALCON - Falk Braunmüller (EPFL)
16:00 Reception
Reception
16:00 - 18:00
Thursday 6 February 2025
09:00 EC launchers
EC launchers
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Integrated RF Analysis Strategy of the ITER ECRH Upper Launcher - Eduard Carbonell (F4E) Sandra Julia (F4E)

09:30 Concepts for cooled Mirrors of the DTT ECH Launchers - Alessandro Bruschi (Istituto di Fisica del Plasma CNR MI (ENEA_CNR))

10:00 Towards a frictionless steering mechanism for the actively cooled DTT ECRH launching mirror - Daniele Busi (POLIMI)
11:00 EC and EBW, longer term view
EC and EBW, longer term view
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 EC system design challenges for the Volumetric Neutron Source - Thomas Franke (PMU - PPP&T)

11:30 ITER EU EC Gyrotrons status and next steps - Paco Sanchez (Fusion for Energy)

12:00 EBW heating for hight density discharges - Ondrej Bogar (IPP.CR)

12:20 Toward Fusion Power Plant Relevant HCD systems - Mark Henderson (UKAEA)
12:40 Final Summary and conclusions
Final Summary and conclusions
12:40 - 13:00