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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 6, 2405034 (2011)

Regular Articles

Redeposition Characteristics of Heavy Hydrocarbon Molecules on a Divertor Plate
Hayato KAWAZOME, Kaoru OHYA1) and Jun KAWATA
Department of Information Engineering, Kagawa National College of Technology, 551 Kohda, Takuma-cho, Mitoyo, Kagawa 769-1192, Japan
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Institute of Technology and Science, The University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minamijyosanjima-cho, Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8506 Japan
(Received 3 December 2010 / Accepted 25 March 2011 / Published 1 July 2011)

Abstract

In this study, local redeposition characteristics of hydrocarbon molecules from the ethane family are investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. Information about redeposition characteristics is required to estimate tritium retention via redeposition with chemically eroded hydrocarbon molecules. For the condition of multiple reflections at divertor surface and a plasma density of 1.0× 1019 m−3, the local redeposition characteristics for injection of ethane family (C2H2, C2H4, C2H6) have been investigated for plasma temperatures ranging from 1 to 100 eV. The number of redeposited hydrocarbon molecules increases with plasma temperature because of the increase in impinging particle energy. The increase in sheath potential results in the increase in particle energy. For plasma temperatures lower than 5 eV, there is a sudden increase in the number of redeposited particles with plasma temperature because of the increase in the number of impinging molecular ions. Sheath field acceleration is the main mechanism that causes the ions to move to the divertor plate, and the exponential increase in the number of redeposited particles results from the increase in hydrocarbon break-up products in the sheath potential region.

Keywords

plasma-wall interaction, chemical erosion, hydrocarbon, computer simulation

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.6.2405034

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Hayato KAWAZOME, Kaoru OHYA and Jun KAWATA, Plasma Fusion Res. 6, 2405034 (2011).