ITER components cooling: Satisfying the distinct needs of systems and components

Abstract

The ITER Tokamak requires multiple auxiliary systems to initiate, support, and monitor the fusion reaction. Heat produced by these systems, as well as the heat produced by the fusion reaction itself is collected by the ITER Cooling Water System (CWS) and rejected to the atmosphere. The CWS is composed of several systems designed for specific cooling roles. One of these systems is the Component Cooling Water System 2 (CCWS-2) whose function is to collect the heat from auxiliary client systems and components and transfer it to the Heat Rejection System. Clients are located throughout the site and have different requirements in terms of pressure, temperature, temperature variation, flow, metallurgy of wetted surfaces, and water quality. To satisfy these different requirements the CCWS-2 is divided into four separate loops, each of which has different operating parameters. For example, the CCWS-2A loop is designed to cool components with wetted surfaces of copper and primarily serves the radio-frequency heating systems, magnet power supplies, and neutral beam injector system components. This paper describes the evolution of the CCWS-2 system to match the needs of groups of compatible clients, and describes the development of the preliminary design of one of its loops, CCWS-2A, to meet individual client needs.