Conceptual design of a He-cooled divertor with integrated flow and heat transfer promoters (PPCS subtask TW3-TRP-001-D2). Pt. 1 Summary

Within the framework of the EU power plant conceptual study (PPCS), helium-cooled modular divertor concepts with a flow promoter (HEMP as a pin array and HEMS as slot array version) have been investigated at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe since 2002. The design goal is to achieve a high heat flux performance of 15 MW/m"2. In this summary of the detailed report, research areas related to the development of a helium-cooled divertor shall be addressed. Latest changes in thermohydraulic layout as well as current results of simulation calculations shall be presented exemplarily for the slot concept HEMS which has the crucial advantage of being easier to manufacture. The divertor construction resulting from the requirements as well as the design-related issues shall be discussed. Possible manufacturing processes for divertor components of tungsten are assessed. Chapters 7 and 8 have been completely revised comprising the latest results of the thermohydraulic layout and thermomechanical analyses. Calculation results have to be verified by experiments. For this purpose, a helium loop will be built at the Efremov Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2004. An outlook on an alternative multi-jet design (HEMJ) will be given at the end of this report. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: ZA 5141(6974) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman