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Properties of Active Water Cooling Atmospheric Plasma Spraying Tungsten Coating

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Tungsten coating was deposited onto an actively water-cooled oxygen-free copper substrate by atmospheric plasma spraying technique. The properties of the microstructure, porosity, microhardness and oxidation of the active water cooling atmospheric plasma spraying tungsten coating were characterized and measured. High heat load and thermal response tests using an electron beam facility have been carried out on the tungsten coated mock-ups under the water cooling condition. The heat flux is changed from 3 to 10 MW/m2 under the condition that the water flow rate is 2.5, 2.0 and 1.5 m3/h, respectively. It is demonstrated that the mock-ups successfully withstood a heat flux of 15.5 MW/m2 at steady state.

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This work is supported by National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China (Nos. 2013GB105001, 2015GB109001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11505232, 11405201), Technological Development Grant of Hefei Science Center of CAS (No. 2014TDG-HSC003), Scientific Research Grant of Hefei Science Center of CAS (No. 2015HSCSRG054), the Planned S&T Program of Shenzhen (Grant No. JCYJ20170302142339007), and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (No. 2017A030310139).

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  1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China

    Fan Wang & Guangnan Luo

  2. Science Island Branch of Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230031, China

    Fan Wang & Guangnan Luo

  3. Hefei Science Center of Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei, 230027, China

    Guangnan Luo

  4. Hefei Center for Physical Science and Technology, Hefei, 230031, China

    Guangnan Luo

  5. College of Physics and Energy, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

    Jianjun Huang

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Wang, F., Luo, G. & Huang, J. Properties of Active Water Cooling Atmospheric Plasma Spraying Tungsten Coating. J Fusion Energ 37, 187–192 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-018-0171-4

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