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Control and Operation Mode of ITER High-Power DC Testing Platform

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This paper introduces a high power dc testing platform for components test of ITER poloidal field converter prototype. The platform is composed of four phase-controlled rectifiers in parallel with the same direction and output up to rated 120 kA long pulse and 400 kA maximum impulse dc current. In this paper, the circuit model is built and circuit analysis is performed to observe the dynamic behaviors. Due to the feature of strong coupling among paralleled branches, two different control strategies are compared, which respectively are decoupling control and dual closed-loop control. Two operation modes, long pulse model and impulse model adopt their own strategy. Experiments results are performed and the operation modes make an agreement with the theoretical analysis.

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The authors would like to show their gratitude to Ministry of Science and Technology of China for the foundation and thank their colleagues in the ASIPP for their contributions to our works.

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  1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, (ASIPP), P.O. Box 1126, Hefei, 230031, Anhui Province, China

    Yue Ji, Hongwen Yuan, Liuwei Xu, Yanan Wu, Qi Guo, Huafeng Mao & Jun Li

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Ji, Y., Yuan, H., Xu, L. et al. Control and Operation Mode of ITER High-Power DC Testing Platform. J Fusion Energ 34, 1483–1488 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-015-9953-0

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